Last updated April 16, 2011.
The Drupal.org Redesign was a major initiative spanning 2008-2010, organized via the Drupal.org redesign implementers group, IRC, Skype meetings and in-person gatherings. The drupal.org redesign team was primarily volunteers, with some contractors.
Issues tagged drupal.org redesign show the types of issues raised and resolved. Many are still ongoing.
New features for drupal.org
- Bluecheese, the new flagship theme, was implemented.
- A custom page pulling data from various places, like drupalorg_news and nodes categorized in the Showcase.
- New Community Spotlight feature.
- Customizable dashboard for everyone.
- A custom drupalorg_news module, using data primarily from the aggregator module.
- Documentation Book pages got a new heading; the home page is a regular node, but has rearranged blocks, including the book ads.
- About, Community & Support and Get Started are good examples of a custom pages. Drupalorg has a template file, and some logic in theme preprocessing. The markup uses Bluecheese's CSS grid.
- Get Involved is a view of simple nodes, stored in drupalorg, with custom blocks on the right.
- Download & Extend is an example of a dynamic page that is built with Solr searches, so that the most relevant content displays.
For more technical background information, see How Drupal.org is built and How Drupal.org uses Drupal.