Define, then create a "recent activity" view (Community & Support page)

Moving to the Redesign project

This will be on http://staging7.drupal.org/community during implementation

any update? what kind of nodes are to be included here?

primerg,throw some ideas down.

I have no idea how difficult it is to incorporate stuff coming off the g.do. home page .... we're seeking input from technical folks. But I'd rather have something than nothing. We can always revise after the minimum viable product of the redesign is live...

Moving to community component.

How about the tracker table? Ideally formatted not like a table, like the prototype.

Or work with drupalorg_news.

We should also consider shifting around the page layout.

Thoughts/Issues:
1. Tracker can be used pretty easily and re-themed without a great deal of effort with a theming override. Passing an extra parameter to signify that a list should be created rather than a table would probably be a pretty simple way to accomplish the desired goal without modifying the existing tracker page.
2. Does browse by "Group" make any sense? I'd suggest dropping the "Group" aspect.
3. Doesn't sorting this list differently sorta defeat the purpose of "Recent Activity"? Are there any other sorts that really provide value? I don't really see the value in constructing this either, and I'd suggest dropping it as well.

The tracker _could_ still be used and re-ordered/filtered if we allow 2 & 3, but the code gets a lot less clean. Does it seem worthwhile to go to that effort? As I see it, neither 2 nor 3 provides a great deal of value, so I can set up the tracker page to be pulled with 10 items, then passed off to theme('tracker2_page') [which we can hand over to someone on theming]. Does that sound reasonable?

I do think we should keep the existing tracker pages as-is, so any theming here shouldn't leak out to the rest of the site.

Skipping the group and sort (2 & 3) is good. The prototype has a pager, but more detail should just go to the main tracker pages; probably a more link instead of full pager.

tracker2_query() should get the data, and I think a new theme template or function should be added.

Ready for theming:
theme_drupalorg_recent_activity in drupalorg.module

Now that I see it I do think the table looks out of place there, more list-like formatting would be nice.

That is done, the markup is there now, but definitely needs a little design help to bring it home. I'm not sure h6 is the right tag.

#914056: "How can we help you" block on /community got this