During past 2 weeks we had slow progress on all fronts, with the biggest impediment - resource constraints (as in too few people to do too many things).
We are very close to deployment of updates to Case studies section on drupal.org. This will be the first step of redesign of that section. In future we are planning to add slideshow (bmaheshs and the team at Tekriti Software are working on this right now) and various other enhancements.
After basic updates deployed we will focus on populating the section, specifically Featured case studies, with high quality content. We will be looking for people, primarily marketing people but not only, with the intent to build a team of dedicated volunteers to review published case studies and write new ones for the most interesting and challenging sites, which don't yet have a case study at drupal.org. More information in the announcement which will follow soon.
We got design ready for the revamped Events section of groups.drupal.org. Updated page will make it easier to find interesting events and plan your travels. Among the event types it supports are trainings and thus the page will serve one of the goals of Drupal Association for this year - directory of all trainings on drupal.org. Right now this initiative is stalled and we need volunteers to step up and implement proposed design on our development site.
Drupal 7 upgrade updates
On the Drupal.org D7 Upgrade front, we've almost got the update.php scenario working all the way through bug-free, but it takes a whole day to run, so testing bug fixes is a slow process.
The Project Team right now is solving the problem of multiple users updating the same issue simultaneously. Project.module is 99% functionally complete and just needs it's tie-ins with project_release in order to be considered finished. Project_release is still in work, it's being ported to entities + fields rather than keeping old code around. Previously the team also has evaluated the Rules module for use on drupal.org and found that benefits of increased flexibility it offers for Project* over the long term are not worth the work it would take to put Rules on drupal.org and integrate it into Project's workflows.
Solr team is moving along, albeit too slowly, and needs more hands to help port some code. Same thing with the drupal.org custom modules. We need more volunteers to port a few of these modules in order to free drumm up to handle the really tough cases.
Bluecheese Team decided not to use a base theme after all because there's not one right now that fits all of the required use cases. The plan is to build a 1-to-1 port based on SASS+Compass+Susy. Blog post is coming soon from the team to explain their decisions and further plans. Oh and last week this team got 1 new member - Snugug (welcome!), so now there are 4 of them.
The Git team is finally ready to deploy latest D6 versioncontrol code, the current one on drupal.org is over a year old. Deployment will be happening next week.
If you want to know more about Drupal 7 upgrade or willing to participate - contact Senpai.
Those were the updates on most important and active initiatives right now, there is a lot more going on and as usual we will be waiting for you at Drupal.org office hours this Monday at 18.00 UTC - IRC channel #drupal-infrastructure to answer your questions and discuss anything drupal.org-related you've been working on.
Originally posted at: http://groups.drupal.org/node/233998
