News and announcements

According to Dries Buytaert, Drupal founder and lead, "Once we get to 0 critical issues, we'll basically throw a party and release Drupal 8. I don't know exactly when that will be, but I'm guessing it that it maybe early or middle of next year":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnERPdAiuSo#t=45m41s

Hi!

We are all aware of how cool Drupal is when creating sites -- not just in function, but form. It appears someone has started an annual award for Drupal sites/modules/books/events. They are currently voting on this years nominees, but it appears they've started doing this every year, with awards being announced at DrupalCon.

Go check them out and vote for your favorites: http://2014.bluedropawards.org/

I have put together a free course to help people get started learning Drupal module development. It starts off with fundamental concepts and then walks you through creating your first module with some common tasks.

Who is this for?

It is aimed at Drupalistas with some site building experience who would like to start learning how to develop their own custom modules. It is also suitable for those who are new to Drupal and would like to dive into to module development.

The Drupal Association Board of Directors has committed to significantly improving Drupal.org in 2014. As a result, we are staffing up, working with contractors, and improving volunteer engagement paths so that we can really accelerate change on the site this year and keep the momentum going into next year.

What's next for Drupal.org?

The primary imperative outlined in our 2014 Leadership Plan and Budget is to make Drupal.org shine. Here are the things I am going to be focused on most immediately to that end:

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Update: downtime window has been shortened from 2 hours to 30 minutes.

Drupal.org will be going down for up to 30 minutes starting Tuesday, April 29th, 17:00 PDT (April 30th, 0:00 UTC).

We will be performing backend switch maintenance for up to 1 hour starting Thursday, April 24th, 17:00 PDT (April 24th, 0:00 UTC).

This maintenance window will be used to install a new backend network switch for Drupal.org. All services have been migrated away from the switch being replaced and we do not expect any outages or downtime to occur during the switch installation.

Feel free to follow the @drupal_infra Twitter account for updates.