The most important event of September was of course DrupalCon Prague. 10 out of 12 members of the Drupal.org Working Groups were there. We finally got to meet each other and work together in person! This means that we spent huge part of the week locked in a meeting room, but.. we had a great time and got a lot done.
Content Working Group
At DrupalCon Prague, the DCWG focused on a number of short and long-term objectives. We finalized interview questions for the Drupal.org site builder landing page and began soliciting survey participants. We also worked on a draft scope of work for user persona research to be conducted in 2014, an editorial content scheduling plan, mission statement, and points of coordination with the other working groups. In addition, work was done to coordinate community efforts around Drupal 8 launch promotion with the official marketing plan developed by the Drupal Association.
If you’re a Drupal site builder, and you’re interested in helping us make Drupal.org a better resource, please sign up for an interview.
We also encourage anyone interested in Drupal 8 (technical or non-technical) to tell us what kind of information you’d like to see on the Drupal 8 resource page(s) by taking this survey: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/DrupalContent
Software Working Group
In Prague the DSWG presented the summary of the community ideation process and our thinking on the short-term Drupal.org roadmap for 2014. You can read more about this in a separate post: https://association.drupal.org/node/18588
We had a lot of productive discussions about our 2013 projects as well. Progress has been made on our improved Drupal.org development workflow proposal. There is still some work to be done, but we are getting ready to publishing it for a larger community feedback.
Not all sub-site maintainers were in Prague, but we managed to meet SebCorbin and Gabor Hojtsy from localize.drupal.org and discuss with them future plans for the website and next steps on D7 upgrade.
We also spent some much needed time discussing our internal processes and tools, which should help us be more efficient as a Group.
Infrastructure Working Group
During DrupalCon Prague the DIWG made progress towards our main goal for this year: growing the team. We documented all the various tasks Infrastructure team needs help with and published them: https://association.drupal.org/node/18573. During the DIWG community conversation the attendance was much higher than we expected. 14 people attended in total (with Jeremy Thorson joining via Skype). Friday sprint was even more exciting, we had a full table of people working on Drupal.org infrastructure all day long. A number of people were cleaning up Infrastructure queue and got it from 600 open issues down to 300! We also go initial loghost setup done, created BitBucket account for the team and started moving our internal BZR repos there, moved more static camp sites to our servers, etc. Big thanks to everyone who joined us during these days, we hope to work with you in future!
