This issue outlines a Drupal Association plan for sun-setting groups.drupal.org as a sub-site and integrating much of its functionality with Drupal.org.

This plan is still in the early stages - so these ideas are still subject to change.

As part of the new Content Model being implemented on Drupal.org, we are implementing organic groups and some supporting modules to allow us to use groups for content organization and governance directly on Drupal.org.

Historically the groups on groups.drupal.org have been used for roughly six purposes:

  1. Announcement Only Groups
  2. Project-based groups
  3. Initiatives and Working Groups (official and unofficial)
  4. Local User Groups
  5. Interest Groups
  6. Jobs

These six functions can be mapped to the new content model for Drupal.org, and in doing so should become more relevant and tightly connected to the content they relate to:

Proposed Group Type Migrations

Group Type Proposed Drupal.org Migration Status
Announcement Only Groups Blog content type on D.O Ready, requires contacting a maintainer of the community section
Project-based Groups Project nodes become organic groups on D.O Not ready
Initiatives and Working Groups Initiative content type In use via the Section content type
Local User Groups Organic group on D.O A new event listing content type is deployed and under review by the Events Working Group
Interest Groups Organic group on D.O Not yet accounted for
Jobs Already migrated to jobs.drupal.org na.

See the DrupalCon Barcelona session for some more details about this plan.

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hestenet created an issue. See original summary.

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kattekrab’s picture

Any updates on this?
Timelines?

kattekrab’s picture

I've started watching the video from barcelona. Are the slides and screenshots and stuff from that available somewhere?

tvn’s picture

Good place to start is also overall content strategy presentation, which gives a lot of info on 'why' and how D.o will be changing overall in the coming months.

As for updates or timelines, there is none at the moment, as we have quite a few large initiatives above this one on the priority list. We'll add more details as we get closer to working on this.

greggles’s picture

https://groups.drupal.org/node/add/ has some interesting types. Among those that seem most popular:

* Event with the ability to "sign up"
* Poll
* Wiki page

Is the plan to just support those straight across or would some of them be abandoned?

apaderno’s picture

Version: 7.x-1.x-dev » 6.x-1.x-dev
Component: Code » Other

It seems g.d.o is preparing to migrate to Drupal 7, for what I can see from other tasks being done. I take this is the first step to migrate g.d.o on d.o.

Is migrating still an active plan? How much would it take?

apaderno’s picture

Component: Other » Migration

(I just noticed there is a Migration component, which probably suits this issue.)

hestenet’s picture

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Wanted to jump back in with a very quick progress report on this long standing issue.

I've updated the table in the issue summary with this progress:

  • Announcement only groups are now possible via the Section content type in the /Community section - just need to contact a section maintainer
  • Initiative content type - Initiatives have now been given their own Section on Drupal.org - could use more features, but the functionality exists
  • Local user groups - a new event listing feature has been deployed to Drupal.org, and is in review by the Events Organizer Working Group
jhodgdon’s picture

For local/language user groups, I think we need a bit more than just an event listing, so I created #3137566: Create an area under /community for geographical/language groups.

dasjo’s picture

@hestenet, thanks for updating the table summary above!

when i read "Initiatives and Working Groups" ⟶ "Initiative content type", i was wondering if those initiatives and working groups won't also use a project based workflow.

for the CWG, i see that
- we have sort of a community landing page https://www.drupal.org/community/cwg
- and a project to keep track of some of the work https://www.drupal.org/project/issues/drupal_cwg

so i guess what i want to point at is that i guess all of these group types, maybe we treat them in a similar way and allow each group to decide what kind of features they need (i.e. issue tracker, code repository, ...)

jhodgdon’s picture

In the issue summary, it has:

Local User Groups ⟶ Organic group on D.O -- A new event listing content type is deployed and under review by the Events Working Group

Local user groups need more than a generic Event functionality. We also need this functionality that currently (sort of at least) exists on groups.drupal.org:
- The ability to "subscribe" or "join" the group to be notified of new events/content
- A forum where local group members can discuss things
- The ability to search for groups by name [currently broken on groups.drupal.org]
- The ability to discover geographic groups by drilling down like North America > United States > Washington > Spokane. There was a manually-edited wiki page on groups.drupal.org that sort of did that, but I don't think it was really very up-to-date. So organizing the groups into a hierarchy at creation time probably would make more sense?

I also think that the Events working group is more focused on regional DrupalCamp type of events, and less on the type of groups that have monthly meetups.