Association News

Getting things off the ground in any open source community is a challenge.  Beyond motivation, you need some resources to help get things moving with outreach and educational programs. To help you overcome some of the barriers, the Drupal Association has been piloting the Community Cultivation Grant program, drawing on the same awesome attitude that has earned the Drupal Community its community-oriented reputation within the open source universe. 

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:

• Port project_release to D7
• Port the 'project_release_download_base' setting to D7 and make it per-node-type
• Figure out how to represent branches for D7 project_release
• Port release files with extra metadata to D7

Drupal 6

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.

Current situation

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.