Update "About" page to be a node

Huh, I have no idea how to edit this page! Moving over to Webmasters queue, to see if someone can help.

I can't edit that page either, but it looks like that list could use some help.

I can't edit it either. Looking at the markup, I'm not entirely sure it's a node. "node-section" classes abound, but no containing div.

Anyone?

Changing title and bumping priority. This is not something we want with a big launch days away.

I pinged it on IRC to see who can edit it.

http://drupalcode.org/viewvc/drupal/contributions/modules/drupalorg/drup... is this page.

It's in http://drupalcode.org/viewvc/drupal/contributions/modules/drupalorg/drup...

Might I suggest replacement of Jewcy by LeFigaro ( http://plus.lefigaro.fr/page/le-figaro ) : its social network is indeed built in Drupal and was launched this year, introduced on Dries' blog, and presented at DC Copenhagen ?

I removed jewcy from http://drupal.org/cases. They aren't funny anyway. :p

Anyone want to second fgm's suggestion of LeFigaro?

Actually, we do want a social network with a case study on Drupal.org, I don't see one for LeFigaro.

Hi,
We built a social network for Le Figaro last year.
About 400 000 users are registered. Many features are available : Comments, Followings / Followers, User Generated Content, Activity, Facebook Status, Content Sharing, Groups, Premium access, etc.
We presented some of them at Drupal Con Copenhague.
Please read http://groups.drupal.org/node/88189#comment-287844 where I have listed some drupal contributed modules we use. If you are interested in, please ask me any kind of informations you need. I will be glad to share our experience.
Sandrine.

-1 of LeFigaro unless there's an actual Case Study to point to. I'm assuming that the sites there should have case studies, no?

Also- is there any way we could automate this more, or at least have the text in a node that we could edit? It seems beyond crazy that we need to have important content like this within code (if only this site used a CMS!).

Harvard and MIT don't have case studies links to them. Ideally, we would have a case study...

@drines, do you have a URL to the site?

There's a couple other examples of social sites here! http://showcase.acquia.com/site-types/10 I don't think I should link to it from d.o. though.

The showcase situation on d.o. is in flux so perhaps I could just add eHarmony but not link it? Patch attached.

Pardon me. Review this patch, ignore the one in #13

Well, this whole Who's Using Drupal section needs to be updated once we switch to new the case study content type. I've updated the issue summary.

So... here's the page, as a node! http://drupal.org/node/1429444
If everyone is OK with that, I'll change the menu to this node, and alias this to /about

There's something funky going on with the right side margin/padding on the background colour at least in Mac/Chrome https://skitch.com/arianek/8rb4h/about-drupal-new-drupal.org (or is that just on unpublished pages?).

Otherwise looks alright. ... Though that first line on both the original page and this one seems slightly out of place, like it deserves a larger font or something to make it seem highlighted... ?

I fixed the margin by adding alpha and omega classes the enclosing grid-12. There is still something wrong with the HTML making the whole background footer grey. Maybe a missing tag.

gonna double check all the divs

I fixed it! Goodness it's been a long time since I stared at and reformatted HTML that much... :)

ps. hope you don't mind i commented all the divs while figuring it out and in case people need to make changes in the future... my code style is a little rusty ;)

Woot! Layout issues are fixed. So... I have a pending patch to the drupalorg_crosssite module. I could re-roll it to include a fix to nav points to this page instead. See #1242094: Restore "Support" in header navigation

Also, there are several other issues related to the About page, but with this as a node, we can press on without a lot of faffing around ;)

Clearly the patch in #14 isn't what we're talking about anymore. Can someone either post or point to the actual patch we're now considering?

I'm hoping that crosssite just points to /about. I'd rather it kept doing that and just let the URL alias work instead of hard-coding a nid into crosssite...

Thanks,
-Derek

I'm not sure what's in the original patch either, but I'd be more than happy to set up the url alias or redirects needed for the new page if that will help.

I *believe* we need a patch to rip all the hard-coded page generation stuff out of drupalorg for this path, so that we *could* add a URL alias for the new node instead. Is that the patch lisarex already has? If so, it'd be nice to just review, commit, and deploy that instead of duplicating the effort. But, maybe I'm confused. I'm only partially following this effort.

-Derek

Yeah, we need to kill the custom menu item for this, the theme template, etc, etc. AFAICT there's no patch for that anywhere but I could easily be wrong.

dww, correct, there's no patch for this particular issue for the About anywhere. I guess it's more than changing the drupalorg_crosssite, so let me get the patch in for the support pages, then I'll try to figure out what is needed for this issue.

btw /about is node/1 !

drumm, dww and I fixed this last night. So now we can focus on improving page content. The working copy of the About node was deleted.

node 1? holy cow!!! that's pretty neat!