In late April 2012 we kicked off a sprint to upgrade Drupal.org to Drupal 7. Over the next months a huge amount of work was done, resulting in about 300 closed issues (not counting bdd team issues). The Project module suite and many other parts of our site were erased of nearly ten years of technical debt brought on by numerous patchwork fixes over the years. In addition, many parts of the new Drupal.org were rebuilt to take advantage of the features and functionality of Drupal 7. A lot of work went into something completely new for Drupal.org - Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD) testing infrastructure and suite of tests for the most important parts of Drupal.org, including Git & Project functionality, Solr search, and various sections like Marketplace and Case studies. All told, by the end of 2012 the upgrade was close to completion. But, at this point we exhausted our initial budget. The decision was made to suspend all activities until we could reassess the situation, define a solid path forward, and get budget for the finishing part of upgrade project approved.
In November 2012 we created the new Drupal.org content project - an area specifically for the content issues. The project covers marketplace listing, case study promotion, and front page promotion requests; issues related to Drupal Planet and other non-documentation content on Drupal.org, such as forums, landing pages etc. Most of them were previously in the Webmasters queue and were moved to the new Content project.
Past month(s) we all have been very busy working on Drupal 7 upgrade of our website. Below are latest updates on the project status from Joel ‘Senpai’ Farris.
We all have been waiting for this.. Drupal.org upgrade project is entering QA stage! Over 190 people already signed up to be A/B testers. Announcement has been updated with further instructions, make sure to check it.
In other upgrade news - the Bluecheese team got more volunteers now with new people joining last week and team's issue queue is active again!
The Project team had a lot of progress in the past 2 weeks and fixed issues like:
July this year first ever Drupal Governance Sprint took place. Drupal.org was among the topics discussed. There were some ideas on how to ensure that site maintenance goes smooth, policies are in place, user’s issues are being answered and experience in the queue is consistent for the users. While implementing those ideas should have positive effect on Drupal.org maintenance, that process will take quite some time. And we don’t necessarily need to wait. We can start discussing existing problems and self-organizing right now. This will also make governance project go much easier and faster once it moves to Drupal.org.
I want to start discussion on Drupal.org governance with one huge and important part of the Drupal.org which is webmasters queue.
Last week we finished migrating companies from the old Drupal services book to the new Marketplace. We are already reviewing requests to be listed in the new section. If you want to get your company listed, please follow marketplace guidelines. We still have quite a lot of open requests, so please be patient while our volunteers are going through them. Or better.. help us make it faster by reviewing some of the requests! Find out how you can help.
We are finally back after Drupalcon and "after-Drupalcon week" with a short week notes post.
DrupalCon..
was amazing! We've had several BOF sessions, met lots of community members and had lots of productive discussions. Drupal.org office hours BOF resulted in a "Drupal 8 call to action" block on the drupal.org front page (thanks woeldiche). Notes from other BOFs will be published as updates to their relevant issues or groups on groups.drupal.org.
Busy times at the Drupal.org development land! During past weeks we've launched new events page on groups.drupal.org, with the help of lisarex and primerg.
Case studies sprint on IRC happened last week. For a couple of hours we worked on migrating old case studies to the new section and a lot got done. We would like to thank Terry Hughes, Lisa Rex from Acquia, Elizabeth and Haylie from New Target, Ray Saltini from Blink reaction for joining us for the sprint. We are planning to have more of such sprints in future, so keep an eye on announcements.
We also worked on various other things listed on our working page.
Last week the COD team finished their summer marathon and launched five DrupalCon websites on the latest version of COD for Drupal 7. Find more details in this blog post by Jacob Redding. We'd like to say thank you to everyone who helped us make that happen.
During the past weeks it seems we've reached a consensus on the guidelines for the Marketplace and are going to move forward with the code implementation in the next few weeks.
The case studies section still needs more content and on Saturday, August 11, we are planning an IRC sprint for case study migration. Everyone is welcome to join and help us migrate some case studies! More information will follow soon.
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