Earlier this year we asked you to vote on improvements to Drupal.org that you would like to see happen. Request for a better showcase of Drupal websites was in the top 5 by the results of the voting. This week we are happy to announce a revamped Case studies section. This section is a space for members of our community to share what they have been working on and get some feedback. At the same time we hope that it will be helpful for people evaluating Drupal as possible solution by providing real-life examples of awesome sites built with Drupal, technical details of their implementation and details of project management process. Thank you to lisarex, larowlan, drumm and all other community members that made this possible!
From a technical point of view, the section is almost finished but it won't become a successful showcase by itself. It needs attention from dedicated team of people on a constant basis. Right now we are looking to build such a team. See our Call for writers, editors and marketing professionals. If you know anyone who might be interested in joining the team - please share announcement with them!
Another request in the top 5 by voting results was project quality indicators. In fact, it was request number one with more votes than even Drupal.org upgrade to Drupal 7. We now have a plan and some parts of it are already in development, like Project issue metrics as graphs on project pages. While we can't fully implement everything right now, while we are in the middle of the upgrade to Drupal 7, we plan to introduce at least small part of it still on Drupal 6. This is something we will take a look at next week!
As all previous weeks, the Events page is still waiting for someone to come and make it awesome. We believe that one day this brave soul will be found!
Drupal 7 upgrade updates
As usual some updates from Joel 'Senpai' Farris:
Bluecheese Team has already implemented SASS on the homepage of their development site and decision to use Susy turns out to be right one. It's going to make the Bluecheese theme very flexible and easier to maintain and adapt in the future.
Customizations Team has finished the problematic D7 update.php issues such as duplicate file paths and the like, and the update.php script is now running itself nightly on a copy of our production database. It still takes 6-8 hours to run, but performance improvements for that still need to be addressed prior to launch day.
Git Team is still in some final code preparations before pushing their new and improved D6 version control code onto drupal.org. It was expected to happen late last week, but due to time constraints, had to be delayed a few days.
Infrastructure Team got the Solr test core verified and in place so the Solr team can begin some of their tests!
Project Team removed a lot of old, crufty code this week, including project_usage_process.php. Work is still progressing on the project_releases stuff, and the team is currently debating a requirement of field_collection.module on d.o
These were all updates for today! If anything from initiatives we are working on sounds interesting - come by Drupal.org office hours (each Monday 18:00 - 19:00 UTC at #drupal-infrastructure) and find out how you can get involved!
Originally posted at: http://groups.drupal.org/node/236543
