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I have an idea for a really great feature to connect the forums to the handbook or some other book of documentation.

Currently, a user has to search drupal.org or pick through forum threads to find forum topics that address their needs, else they can browse the handbook. But the two are not necessarily connected.

What if, when a topic is posted to the forum, the user (who posts) is required to select or specify a sub-heading from a large structured outline of topics that define the handbook or other documentation book. At the same time, this act of specifying a sub-heading automatically creates a link under that same heading in the book.

Of course, it would be great if new headings could be added to such a book, either by the user or moderator, if no headings really fit a thread topic.

What this would do is allow users to browse the existing help in the documentation and have context-specific links to forum posts that apply to their reading. I'm not suggesting that the forum text be directly integrated in full, as part of the documentation. Rather, it would be easily accessible to the reader--or to the writer of that documentation--much more accessible than the 15-20 topics that currently break the forums into separate categories.

I guess another way of doing this is putting this outline structure directly into the forums. Currently, a poster must select a single forum topic from a drop-down menu. Why not create two or three more drop-down menus, so the poster could specify additional sub-topic categories for their post?

I have two suggestions for drupal.org:
* create a new discussion forum called "Our Community"
* allow registered users to create two new (to drupal.org) content types, "a poll" and a "survey" (secret ballot?), provide graphical or tabular output of results, and only rarely allow moderators to reject new ones or not post results

I think these ideas are a way to invigorate the project even more.
* Our Community: this forum would be a place for users to discuss what they think the community is, and what they want it to be
* Polls and Surveys: posting messages and receiving responses is not enough. It doesn't help answer questions, like "How many Drupal users run their sites with PHP 5 vs. PHP 4?" Without the ability to have quantitative answers to some questions, drupal.org isn't even taking advantage of the CMS's own functionality to the fullest extent. This is especially ironic for "community plumbing".

Without these abilities it is difficult to get a more accurate sense of the community, just as there is less value in knowing a few data points on a graph rather than knowing their overall trend. Whatever the Drupal project's "hierarchy" is (monarchy, oligarchy, meritocracy, technocracy, aristocracy, democracy) and however decisions are made, I think the poll/survey mechanism will provide valuable feedback that can either be discussed furthe

When I search for the string "book access" on the site, it takes me to the correct page. But if I click on the next button to view more listings, I'm redirected to http://drupal.org/cvs-account for some reason. I can't really search the forums since the problem is with the searching, so sorry if this topic is already being discussed.

It appears that the owner of the swedish translation project has disappeared. Is it possible to move ownership to me? Myself and one other person have resently begun to do something about this translation project that have previously been standing still for some time now. We have both our own accounts to the CVS already.