By moshe weitzman on

Drupal.org has added a new web site to the family: groups.drupal.org (g.d.o). The site has been active for quite some time, but we didn’t announce it here while we were tweaking the knobs. Despite that, g.d.o already boasts 237 groups and 9355 group subscriptions. You may login using your drupal.org username and password. Remember to append @drupal.org to your username. Also be sure to update your g.d.o email address after logging in so that you receive group notification emails.

g.d.o just smoothly upgraded to the Drupal 5 Release Candidate. That makes g.d.o the first drupal.org hosted site to run the upcoming Drupal release.

groups.drupal.org serves the Drupal community by providing a place for groups to organize, plan and work on projects. Real world local user groups in particular are encouraged to setup their online presence here.

Examples of local user groups on the groups site are Boston and Brazil. These local user groups are analogous to Meetup groups. Events from these groups are automatically syndicated to a block on the drupal.org home page. We also have working groups such as Internationalization, Drupal Dojo, and Javascript.

A group is like a mini-site within a larger Drupal site. Each group gets its own home page, faces page (subscription required), own categories (see block in upper right), and choice of language (we currently support 7 languages). Each group has own membership, email notifications, RSS feeds, administrators, and on and on.

The groups site makes use of some terrific Contributed modules such as Organic Groups, Views, Pathauto, Helptip, Markdown with Smartypants and Autotimezone. See the About page for more information.

Any registered user is welcome to create a group on this site, subject to the guidelines presented there. In particular, please don’t duplicate existing groups and make sure you are committed to doing the hard work associated with growing/managing your group.

Please browse our directory of groups and subscribe to those which are interest you. Enjoy!

⋅ Categories: Drupal 5.x

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gusaus’s picture

gusaus commented

Definitely noticed the improvements that came along with the upgrade to Drupal 5. So much useful info and community to be found.

Thanks!

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BioALIEN’s picture

BioALIEN commented

Although it adds a big value to Drupal.org, i would like to see it integrate with drupal so that users dont have to create new accounts and also re-login everytime they visit g.d.o

But in general, its a great addition to the Drupal website.

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skor’s picture

skor commented

just append @drupal.org to your drupal user id, and enter your drupal.org password.

BioALIEN’s picture

BioALIEN commented

I did use my @drupal.org account but I went into the account page and edited my username to omit the "@drupal.org". Although it is displaying the desired username, it doesnt remember it as the login, I still have to login using the @drupal.org

Maybe a way to allow these users to change their account and establish a separate user/password once they login?

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bwrob’s picture

bwrob commented

I second that, very nice.

thanks
bob

alexis’s picture

alexis commented

I've been following many groups for a few months and recently joined the Drupal Dojo group.

It's great to know it's officially announced now and running Drupal 5.

Congrats!

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Walt Esquivel commented

As Robert and I both mentioned back in April and May of 2006, a big "Thank you!" goes to Moshe for his vision, hard work, and dedication to the "groups" concept.

Moshe, the "groups" concept is simply...brilliant! I've really enjoyed seeing it grow and I know it will only get better.

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Leeteq’s picture

Leeteq commented

How about informing about the g.d.o site in its own block on the
http://drupal.org/forum

page(s)?

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moshe weitzman’s picture

moshe weitzman commented

i updated diff module and installed on groups site so folks who care about showing differences between revisions should see the new tab on node views.

astra’s picture

astra commented

Why can't I login to groups.drupal.org using my drupal.org username(astra@drupal.org) and password?

simplulo’s picture

simplulo commented

I have the same problem. I just request a new password every time, which needless to say is not often.

moshe weitzman’s picture

moshe weitzman commented

i can see that you successfully did this at least once because your username on groups has @drupal.org. if it is failing sporadically, i wonder if drupal.org is down/misbehaving. try logging in there when you are having trouble. and please report back here.

astra’s picture

astra commented

Yes, sometimes I can login successfully but sometimes not. Just 1 minute ago I tried loginning with my username astra@drupal.org, but I couldn't go in. I really don't know what problem it's.

monkeywiser’s picture

monkeywiser commented

Just having the same kind of problems. My username/password dont work on groups and I did clear the cache of the browser. Kind of frustrating but not a big problem. Have you managed to do it yourself?

rszrama’s picture

rszrama commented

Did you use the username monkeywiser@drupal.org with your current d.o password?

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rszrama commented

Just wanted to point out that textarea.js for g.d.o is looking for the isJsEnabled constant... As jvandervort and I pointed out in the module update page comments, that has been changed to simply be JsEnabled. Look in drupal.js to see.. and maybe change textarea.js. ; )

(Interestingly, this is fixed in the latest RC 1 for 5.0.)

If someone could please change the actual handbook page for upgrading modules, that would be helpful. Our comments are pretty old but the text itself still reflects isJsEnabled.

EDIT:

Looking at the current textarea.js I saw that it's still the 4.7 version. Maybe more JS files need updating, too?

I saw this when editing a wiki page in the Drupal Dojo.

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moshe weitzman’s picture

moshe weitzman commented

i think your browser has old files. please dump browser cache and retry.

rszrama’s picture

rszrama commented

Will do. I should've thought of that. ;)

skor’s picture

skor commented

Just curious, does g.d.o use LiquidWiki? Or is it really just the book module with edit permission granted to all registered users?

this is the only wiki node I've seen there so far.

moshe weitzman’s picture

moshe weitzman commented

drupal 5 offers an edit permisison which can grant broadly thus effectively giing write access to everyone for all nodes of that type. it is the beginning of a wiki in core! thats all i am using on g.d.o

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dries commented

I don't understand the difference between "Community Group Topic", "Community Group Freetags" and "Sitewide tags". (For a consistent user experience, write "Community group topic" not "Community group topic".)

Integrating wiki node types and mixing them with stories is really confusing too. Personally, I'd prefer to see groups.drupal.org become simpler, rather than more complex.

moshe weitzman’s picture

moshe weitzman commented

which group are you in when you see all those classification types? i suspect the author is misusing the group vocabs feature. i will fix it. in general groups can have their own vocabs in order to classify and bring order to their group home page. without this, groups are as boring as a default drupal home page.

similarly, wikipages are there in order for groups to maintain documentation and other collab documents. this too is a valid need IMO. after all, core 5.0 has this feature, and i am using it.

i am all for suggestions that simplify the site and still satisfy the need for groups to do their work.

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kajamohideen commented

What are the modules that g.d.o uses?

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