In October 2005, we conducted a Drupal.org user survey to get feedback on the Drupal.org website and to prioritize the work we should put into improving it. We have since been working on the improvements that the respondents felt were most important. Today, we are pleased to roll out a number of these improvements. At the same time, we've upgraded Drupal.org to the latest CVS version.
So, in good Drupal tradition, we the developers get to eat our own dog food again, and you the users get to see and test these latest changes. Please let us know if you find anything out of whack - this has been a significant upgrade and we are still fine-tuning the site.
The key changes include:
- Improved search. Using the 'advanced search'-tab you can restrict searches to specific Drupal versions, to specific forums, to the handbook pages, etc.
- Project categorization. We've categorized all the contributed projects hosted at Drupal.org and made it possible to browse projects by category. This should allow you to narrow down your search for that perfect module, and see others in its class, without having to search through them alphabetically.
- Project updates. We've made it possible to see when a project has been last updated. As a result, projects can be browsed by date. No one likes downloading code that has no maintainer or to which no lifeline exists - by glancing at the date you'll be able to eyeball it's heartbeat.
- Forum reorganization. We've added, split apart, and reorganized some forums and mailing lists to better meet the growing demand of our users and their desires.
- Dev Docs and CVS. You can now browse the Drupal API at http://api.drupal.org/. (to replace the old http://drupaldocs.org/). You'll also be able to change your Drupal.org CVS account from your user profile.
We are still working on a number of other improvements (eg. project ratings) which we should be able to roll out more easily now that Drupal.org runs on the latest CVS.
If you want to help maintain or improve the Drupal.org website, please join the infrastructure mailing list or work on some Drupal.org tasks.
The upgrade to Drupal.org has been a lot of work by various members of the community over the past several months. From testing of patches and upgrades to prioritizing which items would be worked on first and how it would be approached, user surveys, to determining which categories will be used in the download pages. Without people in our community willing to do the work necessary to turn the ideas into reality, it wouldn't have been posible.
Thanks to everyone involved.
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Congratulation!
This is great news and a much anticipated improvement for anybody involved in the Drupal community. Thanks for making it happen!
Btw. you might have noticed, that the links to "forums" and "mailing lists" don´t work, as the links should be without "s".
Reinhard Knobelspies
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Fixed, thanks!
Fixed, thanks!
Good forums
Very exciting!
I like the new forums layout; it's far easier now to see where people need help.
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Navigation Menu Amiss
All rightside menus have slipped down below the bottom level of the content in my copy of IE6. So I have to scroll down to choose any navigation other than the tabbed toolbar.
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i believe the site administrators
are trying to address some layout issues on a temporary basis. Moving the sidebars out of the way provided relief from a layout issue which was preventing markup below the sidebar from being selectable. I would guess that once the root cause in the markup/css is identified they'll move the sidebar back.
Nope
The sidebar is positioned perfectly in standards-compliant browsers. IE, on the other hand, is known to drop it sometimes when people post really long words in titles and such.
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drupal.org IE 6.0 right sidebar issue has gone away...for now
Hi Steven,
First of all, THANK YOU for all that you do for the Drupal community.
Second, as gtoddv wrote, the right sidebar (my userID block, the "Contributor links" block, the "New forum topics" block, and the "Who's online" block) at drupal.org was shifted down (but still on the right side) at the bottom of my IE 6.0 screen starting just below the last left-hand-side content entry (it's currently "DC Drupal Meetup #2: Wed, Mar 22nd" but may drop off by the time you read this). It has now been fixed and appears the way it should be, that is, parallel with the left-hand-side content. I'm hoping the next version of IE is standards-compliant!
By the way, I clicked on the "Search" in your signature but I'm getting a "Page not found". It takes me to http://drupal.org/node/search but I think it should go to http://drupal.org/search/node/ instead. The new search is awesome! :)
Thanks again for all that you do! The Drupal community really appreciates it and if you're ever in Austin, Texas I'll buy you a beer...a good Texas beer!
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Bravo!
Great work. It is good to see drupal eating its own dogfood. I like the categorization of project. I did have to snoop around to find the Contributor links, but I like the opt-in capability.
Seeing the Handbook updates and issues, I wonder how many updates and issues we get in a normal month. If the number is great enough, perhaps a categorization and tree-like organization would benefit the editing process. It seems like a new editor or author could quickly get lost when taking on the task of contributing to the handbooks.
I love having a link that goes directly to the critical issues for 4.7.
As many of you know, I am mocking up a proposal for a new support page. It looks like I'll have to improve that idea to be of the same quality as the categorized and quasi-sortable project listings.
Progress is so exciting to see in action.
Yay! Browse By Date... And...
Just a quick suggestion for the browse by date feature in the projects/downloads area: while it does seem to put them in date order (well, except for modules:cvs, which is back to alphabetical?), it would be a nice addition to put the "modified date" in the teaser as well, so that we know the actual date something was worked on. This is already possible with taxonomy (example: http://drupal.org/taxonomy/term/14 ) listings, but would be a nice addition to the "by date" tab (IMO).
Thanks, and congrats on the site upgrade!
-deano
Downloads
I like the new downloads sections layout and function, but can you put the date in the node of the download. That way if you are browsing by name or category you can still tell the activity on the module.
modules 4.6 download / find out more
is anyone else having problems w/ these two links? It seems they work until you get to the Administration module and than they are inop. Also, I'm not able to click on the buttons, I'm having to tab to them and use enter to activate the buttons (random problem on Drupal site)...
Yes, I am having the same Problem...
Not just on those pages though. In IE many links do not work anymore. You can hover over them with no affect, they aren't live anymore. It does seem to be most prevalent in the modules section but I have seen this behavior elsewhere. This was not at all a problem until this upgrade to the site.
While IE is not the greatest browser, it is stil the most popular in use. Answers concerning it's non-compliance don't help those of us that have sites with average users. I do a lot of government work and IE must be supported. We would all love to live in a standards compliant world (well most of the time, it can stifle innovation and creativity at times) but the reality is that 80% of the market does not use a standards compliant browser. (this paragraph is gratuitous. I am responding to a few of the useless answers that have been posted here.)
Anyway, I would love to have the links working again! Thanks for all the great work guys and girls!
Links NOT working for many modules and other pages
Thank you, angelahoistion and gtoddv, for your posts and letting me know it wasn't just me that was having issues!
I'm using IE 6.0 and YES, I'm having problems with the links, as in they're not there or at least not enabled the way they should be. As angelahoistion mentioned, the only current work-around, and a very tedious one at that, is to tab one's way through the couple hundred modules and click "Enter" on the chosen one. ARRRR!
If I go to http://drupal.org/project/Modules, 4.6.x, "browse by name", and scroll down to the "Advogato import" module and then roll my mouse over the module's name, "Download", "Find out more", and "Bugs and feature requests", nothing happens because the links aren't there. The links for "AdSense", the module directly above "Advogato import", work as expected and one can roll one's mouse over its links, click on them, and obtain the expected result, i.e. the download begins after clicking "Download".
If I go to http://drupal.org/project/Modules, 4.7.x, "browse by name", and scroll down to the "Block Bar" module and then roll my mouse over the module's name, "Download", "Find out more", and "Bugs and feature requests", nothing happens because the links aren't there. The links for "Bio", the module directly above "Block Bar", work as expected and one can roll one's mouse over its links, click on them, and obtain the expected result, i.e. the download begins after clicking "Download".
If I go to http://drupal.org/node/18317 and scroll down to "#9 submitted by killes@www.drop.org on March 27, 2006 - 14:22 new", I am able to click on killes' link that takes me to his user page. However, if I go down to #10 where moshe submitted a comment, I can NOT click on moshe's name nor any links below it.
In addition, shortly after the site upgrade, I thought the "Preview comment" and the "Post comment" buttons for the forums at drupal.org were not working either. Turns out that the respective buttons' clickable area are VERY small. One needs to run one's mouse over the entire button to "find" the link to then be able to click it. Otherwise, one can have one's mouse within the "Preview comment" button but yet nothing happens. One has to play around with one's mouse to actually "scroll" over the button's associated link. Does this make sense? :) It's as if someone decreased the pixel area for the "Preview comment" and the "Post comment" buttons to a very small area of just a few pixels instead of the full size of the button and what it should be for easy clicking. Hence, it can appear to some users that the buttons are not "live" links. HOWEVER, sometimes the "Preview comment' and "Post comment" buttons do NOT work at all...as in right now where I'm clicking any area of the "Post comment" field and nothing is happening. Seems to be hit or miss. I actually had to "tab" over to the "Post comment" button to post this.
Oh, I also noticed that the last module, Xstatistics, seems to, at least on my browser for both the 4.6.x and 4.7.x modules, be missing the last part of its writeup and there aren't even any words such as ""Download", "Find out more", and "Bugs and feature requests". I think the bottom text got cut off.
I'll surf over to the "issues" and see if anyone has already reported these issues and then post my findings here.
EDIT: OK, I searched the "issues" and the broken links problem was reported the evening of 3/29 at http://drupal.org/node/56469. I left the priority as "normal", but should it be marked "critical"? If you think it should, feel free to upgrade it. Thanks!
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Please add this information
Please add this information to the issue. This will help keep it centralized for test cases.
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Done - thanks for the suggestion
I hope it gets some love and attention! ;)
EDIT: http://drupal.org/node/56469, which I submitted my info to, has now been marked as a "duplicate."
The original post can be found at http://drupal.org/node/56022, "Drupal.org broken in IE 6.0," so please post any relevant updates there.
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Wonderful!
I love the changes! Thank you everyone!
My only quibble is having the forums navigator above the comments links. It seems counterintuitive to me. But I can see the benefits of that arrangement, too.
Laura
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Drupal logo in Firefox
Drupal logo is "out of place" in Firefox.
But the improvements are excellent!! Congratulations to all!!!
Yeah, this is a browser cache problem...
Firefox in particular seems to be overly aggressive about it. ;P
Try shift+reload a couple times, and/or clear cache and that should take care of it.
Firefox shortcut
In Firefox, the shortcut is Ctrl+F5
IE7 B2
Has anyone tried the new site in IE7 B2 yet?
I am running this, and it seems like the navigation menu items are completely misaligned. (the ones in blue blocks.... Support, Handbooks, Forum, Downloads, Contribute etc)
:S
jacauc
This is a known issue and
This is a known issue and will be addressed at some pooint. In the meantime, use Firefox. The cause are some css hacks to get IE6 to display correctly.
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No, No, No
This is not true. IE7 does not parse any of the IE6 hacks anymore so they have no effect. IE7 is seeing exactly the same CSS that Firefox/Opera/Safari/etc are.
The cause is a bug in IE7B2's float model. If you place a width: auto; float in an absolutely positioned div, it will fail to shrink wrap (as per CSS2.1).
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Sweet. Happy to be
Sweet. Happy to be corrected. Hopefully IE7 will be.
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Faster too
Congrats and thanks to everyone who worked on this. Has anyone else noticed that pages (e.g. forums) seem to load much faster now?
CPU usage
I am also finding drupal.org to be faster.
Drupal.org is a high traffic website, would it be possible to find out that the average daily CPU usage was before the upgrade compared to now after the upgrade.
CPU/Load Graphs
Actually, I was wondering the same thing, if the drupal.org admins could post their load graphs for a one month period with the upgrade taking place in the middle about two weeks in, that would be awesome.
I've looked at the current
I've looked at the current graphs and there does not seem to be a notable difference.
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low traffic
Is it just me or since the upgrade has their been a drop in guest users. In the passed I was used to seeing about 1800 - 5000 guest users on the Who's online block.
As of writing this the Who's online block reads "There are currently 130 users and 564 guests online.". Is it a time zone thing or is this abnormal. Or maybe the block code was changed.
probably a change in the
probably a change in the code.
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'Who's online', User activity block setting
Maybe the block setting changed. If so I would like to know what it was and what it is now. On my sites I normal work on 15min.
crawlers
the sessions handling code has been optimized to not tracks sessions for browsers that don't support cookies or that come to the site for only 1 page view. the byproduct of this is that crawlers don't clutter the sessions table and that they don't give false high readings in this block.
Thanks!
Thank you, killes.
All great, except
The new site upgrade is great, everything works great and looks great, except the project page. All the new features in the project section are great the only thing I found out of place was the listing of project page (http://drupal.org/project).
I think it should look more like the handbooks page, with the headings being nice and big then the descriptions underneath. I also see the Drupal project does not have a description yet, you guys are probably getting to this.
This is just a personal observation.
Keep up the good work. Its nice to see all the new features that have spoken about in drupal.org.
on-topic random compliment
Drupal is ace!
Updated to run 4.7
Updated to run 4.7 RC1.
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The addition of 'browse by
The addition of 'browse by category' in the projects is great and I am sure the gliches in the actual content will be fixed soon. One thing I hate is the POST version selection filter which does not give an URL.
issues link
At the bottom of the issues section of modules is a
#text link next to the xml feed link. Maybe this same thing could be add to the project section.nice
nice to hear that!
Thanx!
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Updated vs New
Has anyone else noticed it or is this some new feature that I don't understand? When I click on the 'my recent posts' tab, I am seeing 'Updated' in posts that I have replied to. This is a bit confusing as I keep clicking on the posts once again only to find out that there is nothing new after what I added.
I confirm it. This seems to
I confirm it. This seems to have happened today.
Same here
Same here. Today 5 posts in my resent posts showed updated.
CVS showing current time instead of uploaded time?
In checking out CVS copies of modules today I noticed that all of the 'latest release' dates are the same, and actually showing what seems to be the current time and date. Am I right in thinking it should actually be showing the last time the CVS was uploaded?
Indeed, they should. I've
Indeed, they should. I've worked on the packaging script and hope it will comply with this in future.
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