We’re hard at work upgrading Drupal.org to Drupal 7. DrupalCon is a perfect opportunity for you to find out what is going on with the upgrade, give us feedback on the new issue page layout and, of course, help us in the issue queue.
Where to find us:
Weekend before DrupalCon - We are taking part in the extended sprints, come and help us close some issues
Tuesday, May 21, 4:30pm - We’re having a BoF, Drupal.org improvements and D7 upgrade (Room B112)
We improved our individual and organization membership directories. Information is now from your Drupal.org profile. If you are a member, please take a moment to search for your username to check what is listed. If you need to update, there are instructions at the top-right of the page. And thanks again for your support!
One of my jobs is to help make Drupal.org awesome, along with the infrastructure team and community. Drupal.org works a lot like any large Drupal site, except for the people. Rather than a defined team, we have volunteers; and occasional partially funded efforts, like the Drupal.org redesign and Git migration.
The map on the home page of Drupal.org is one of the most-noticed new features. It started with the prototype, which was just that— a Flash-based idea for what might go there. During implementation, we had to figure out what exactly it would be and how it would work.
First, we needed to know where people were. Drupal.org has the advantage of an audience who is more-likely to be using modern browsers, and we don’t need everyone’s location. I decided we should use the new Geolocation API, but didn’t find any existing modules. I wrote a small HTML5 user geolocation module to add a share location option to your profile page. For privacy, it is opt-in and rounded to the nearest 0.1 longitude/latitude. Over 5,000 have shared their location, less than 1% of active Drupal.org users, but still looks impressive on a map:
The days before the Drupal 7 release were a scramble to organize aPReffort, including a new landing page and changes to the home page. Both are custom pages rendered by the drupalorg module, Drupal.org’s site-specific module. Site-specific modules need sites to work, and we were ready with infrastructure built during the Drupal.org redesign. The days before the Drupal 7 release were a scramble to organize aPReffort, including a new landing page and changes to the home page. Both are custom pages rendered by the drupalorg module, Drupal.org’s site-specific module. Site-specific modules need sites to work, and we were ready with infrastructure built during the Drupal.org redesign.
The Drupal Association is constantly looking for ways to make Drupal.org more useful for the community. Currently we are working on a Drupal Marketplace which will allow Drupal Service providers to publish listings and categorize them.
The Drupal Association is constantly looking for ways to make Drupal.org more useful for the community. Currently we are working on a Drupal Marketplace which will allow Drupal Service providers to publish listings and categorize them.
With the Drupal.org redesign launched, I’ve heard many ask, “what’s next?” We always do regular, incremental improvements through the infrastructure and webmasters projects. This will continue, with the new design as a foundation and deployment workflow improved by the redesign project.
