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Building the Drupal.org re-design community infrastructure: Administrators wanted

By Amazon on

One of the biggest challenges in working in a large community like the Drupal community is removing bottlenecks. All too often the community can seem to come to a grinding halt on just one issue that can only be managed by one person. On Monday Dries gave a presentation at MIT and talked about how some of the Drupal community’s biggest problems have helped create some of our best solutions. In particular, he cited how our drupal.org server melt down in 2005 lead to the creation of the Drupal association to proactively manage and plan for our infrastructure growth.

More computer power

By gerhard killesreiter on

The Drupal Association has used some of the money that it acquired thanks to the Drupal community and its sponsors to buy more computing power for the infrastructure that all services of drupal.org are hosted on.

Oh no, we have too many links!

By gerhard killesreiter on

Once in a while I log into google to look at their webmaster tools and what they say about drupal.org.

Yesterday, I did that again, after a hiatus of several weeks. I noticed, that google had sent me three mails which didn't make it to my inbox because I hadn't configured email forwarding.

After fixing that I looked at the mails.

One was abotu their services, they want me to use Adwords and offer some free budget. The other two were almost identical and they probably had sent the second one after I didn't react on the first:

Drupal booth at Hostingcon, Aug 10-12th, Washington, DC

By Amazon on

Only local images are allowed.

2009 Budget

By jredding on

After months of hard work defining goals, getting price quotes, setting priorities and building working teams the Association is ready to announce our 2009 budget. The Association is an all volunteer ran organization made up of and supported by the Drupal community and is excited to share our budget with the community. We want to keep you informed as to how your donations are being used.

Drupal in the .org pavillion at Open Source World

By Amazon on

Only local images are allowed.

Getroffene Hunde bellen

By gerhard killesreiter on

The title is a German proverb which translates as "hit dogs bark" and means that people will react once they feel sufficiently threatened.

Turn over in the Drupal association board and general assembly

By Amazon on

A few weeks ago a community member raised concern on the consulting list about turn over in the Drupal association, or rather the lack of it. Since this information is often public, but hard to track down, I thought I'd shed some light.

Ten people have rotated on and off the board of the Drupal
association. Only four original board members are still present.
The board has two new members as of 2009 for the Drupal association, who were not previously permanent members of the association: Tiffany Farriss and Cary Gordon.

Speedy google bot

By gerhard killesreiter on

Googlebot is a frequent visitor(*) of drupal.org, eating over 50GB of traffic in over 11 million requests in March. I didn't know that the postprocessing is also quite fast.

Today, one of our helpful users reported some spam which was created by a new user. The user was a member for 2 hours and the spam itself was just over 1 hours old before I deleted it.

Spammers read my blog

By gerhard killesreiter on

Maybe they don't but they have realized that their spam profiles on drupal.org are too short-lived to get them much traffic. As a result of this, the number of new spam profiles seems to be down.

As a side note: In part due to the spam profiles and the google traffic that they generated drupal.org served more than 30 Mio pages in March. This is an increase of about 38% compared to February with 22 Mio viewed pages.

The bigger part of this surge can probably be attributed to DrupalCon at the beginning of March.

Here's a table of the number of 403 pages by month:

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