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:
- Announcement Only Groups
- Project-based groups
- Initiatives and Working Groups (official and unofficial)
- Local User Groups
- Interest Groups
- 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:
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.
Comments
Comment #2
hestenetComment #3
hestenetComment #4
kattekrab CreditAttribution: kattekrab at Creative Contingencies commentedAny updates on this?
Timelines?
Comment #5
kattekrab CreditAttribution: kattekrab at Creative Contingencies commentedI've started watching the video from barcelona. Are the slides and screenshots and stuff from that available somewhere?
Comment #6
tvn CreditAttribution: tvn at Drupal Association commentedGood 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.
Comment #7
greggleshttps://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?
Comment #8
apadernoIt 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?
Comment #9
apaderno(I just noticed there is a Migration component, which probably suits this issue.)
Comment #10
hestenetWanted 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:
Comment #11
jhodgdonFor 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.
Comment #12
dasjo@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, ...)
Comment #13
jhodgdonIn the issue summary, it has:
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.