Read our Roadmap to understand how this work falls into priorities set by the Drupal Association with direction and collaboration from the Board and community.

Announcements

Last chance to vote in the Drupal Association board election

Elections for the Drupal Association board end on July 13th, 2018 at 5pm Pacific (in just over an hour at the time this is posted). There are nine candidates from 7 countries across six continents representing a wide variety of perspectives from the Drupal community. Anyone user who has been active in the last year and registered before the elections began is welcome to cast a ballot.

We encourage you to vote today and help guide the future of the Drupal Association.  

Reminder: Drupal Europe is coming up soon

Drupal Europe is coming up in less than 60 days! Drupal Europe will be the largest gathering of the Drupal community in Europe and is a reimagining of this important community event as both technical conference and family reunion. The Drupal Association engineering team will be attending to connect with the community, provide updates on Drupal.org, and listen to some of the incredible speakers who will be in attendance.

Join the community in Darmstadt, Germany from September 10-14, 2018. Make sure to register, book your travel, and secure accommodation: http://drupaleurope.org/

Project maintainers: Change your git remote configuration

Git authentication methods for Drupal.org hosted projects are changing as we approach upgrading our developer tooling stack. In particular we will be:

  • Deprecating password authentication for git

  • Deprecating the git remote format <username>@git.drupal.org/project/<yourproject>.git in favor of git@git.drupal.org:project/<yourproject>.git

We have updated the version control instructions for Drupal.org projects, and put a message in the git daemon for any user who makes a push using the deprecated format.

For more information, please review: https://drupal.org/gitauth

Drupal.org Updates

Ecommerce industry page launched

Since last year, one of our ongoing initiatives has been to develop more content on Drupal.org focused on specific industries. Drupal is an incredible powerful tool for building ambitious digital experiences, but it's flexibility can sometimes be overwhelming. These industry specific pages help Drupal evaluators discover how Drupal can be tailored for their specific needs, and highlight successful case studies of Drupal in the wild.

The Drupal Association has launched our sixth industry page promoting the power of Drupal for Ecommerce. We want to thank Commerce Guys for their contributions to getting this page off the ground.

Display project screenshots in a more user friendly way

For every new Drupal project that a developer or site-builder undertakes, time is spent evaluating distributions, modules, and themes to find integrations that will accelerate launching the project.

To improve the user experience for users evaluating modules on Drupal.org, we've implemented a new lightbox-style display for project screenshots.

Here's an example of a screenshot from the Token project:

Granted more maintainers the ability to give contribution credit

Since the introduction of contribution credits at the end of 2015, they've become an important part of the way the Drupal community recognizes individual and organizational contributions to the project. The Drupal Association Engineering team regularly reviews the contribution credit system to make small tweaks and adjustments to make the experience even better.

For our most recent update, Drupal.org now grants all project maintainers with the 'maintain issues' permission the ability to grant contribution credit, instead of just those users with 'Write to Version Control' permissions. This means that a much wider group of maintainers can now participate in granting credit.

Showing maintainer photos on top level Docs guides

Documentation is critically important to the Drupal project To make it easier for potential contributors to find out who they should reach out to for issues that affect the top levels of documentation, we've added maintainer information to the top level documentation guides.

Email confirmation when creating an organization node

To help more organizations that work with Drupal join our community, we now send an email confirmation to any user who creates an organization profile with information about becoming listed as a service provider, details about the contribution credit system, and information about becoming a Drupal Association member or supporting partner.

We encourage everyone in the Drupal community to ask your clients to create a Drupal.org organization profile. Bringing end-users into the contribution journey will be a key part of Drupal's long term health and success.

Contributing to the Open Demographics Initiative

One of our goals on the Drupal Association engineering team is to adopt the Open Demographics Initiative in our user registration process. As part of our effort to work towards that goal, we have contributed a machine readable version of the demographic questions and and answers to the ODI project.

We're hopeful that can be reviewed and committed soon, and be used as the basis for an ODI Drupal module.

Security Improvements

Added PSA and SAs to the /news feed

To increase the visibility of security notifications, Public Security Announcements and Security Advisories will now be included in the https://drupal.org/news feed.

Multi-value CVE field for Security Advisories

We've also updated the security advisory content type so that an advisory can be associated with multiple CVEs.

Infrastructure Updates

DrupalCI: Converted core javascript tests to use Chrome driver

The DA Engineering team has worked together with Core to convert the Core javascript tests from using PhantomJS to using Chrome Webdriver. This provides much more powerful and better supported tools for javascript development in Drupal.

DrupalCI: Reduced disk space usage of the DrupalCI dispatcher

One of the most important services the Drupal Association provides for the project is DrupalCI, the suite of tools used to test all of Drupal's code. These tools are very powerful, but also expensive to maintain, and something we have to monitor carefully. In June, we spent some time automating disk space management for the DrupalCI dispatcher, to help reduce the maintenance cost of keeping it running smoothly.

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As always, we’d like to say thanks to all the volunteers who work with us, and to the Drupal Association Supporters, who make it possible for us to work on these projects. In particular we want to thank:

  • OPIN - Renewing Signature Supporting Partner
  • Srijan - Renewing Signature Supporting Partner
  • Lullabot - Renewing Premium Supporting Partner
  • Aten - Renewing Premium Supporting Partner
  • Phase2 - Renewing Premium Supporting Partner
  • WebEnertia - *NEW* Premium Supporting Partner
  • Pantheon - Renewing Premium Hosting Supporter
  • Datadog - Renewing Premium Technology Supporter
  • Promet Source - Renewing Classic Supporting Partner
  • Evolving Web - Renewing Classic Supporting Partner
  • ImageX - Renewing Classic Supporting Partner
  • Adapt - Renewing Classic Supporting Partner
  • Green Geeks - Renewing Hosting Supporter
  • Microserve - Renewing Classic Supporting Partner
  • ThinkShout - Renewing Classic Supporting Partner
  • Amazee Labs - Renewing Classic Supporting Partner
  • Four Kitchens - Renewing Classic Supporting Partner
  • Access - Renewing Classic Supporting Partner
  • Appnovation - Renewing Classic Supporting Partner
  • Studio Present - Renewing Classic Supporting Partner
  • undpaul - Renewing Classic Supporting Partner
  • Position2 - Renewing Classic Supporting Partner
  • Blend Interactive - Renewing Classic Supporting Partner

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