News and announcements

We just upgraded drupal.org from Drupal 4.7 to the Drupal 5 release candidate. The upgrade went like we expected -- smooth. Kudos to all the people who helped make this possible!

So in good Drupal tradition, we get to "eat our own dog food" before a major release. Drupal.org served more than 9 million pages last month (36 million hits) so this upgrade should give Drupal 5 a good last workout and allows us to evaluate the readiness, snappiness, sweetness and overall happiness of the final Drupal 5 release.

November 2006 : Drupal.org has 100,000 nodes.

December 2006: Drupal.org has 100,000 users.

January 2007: Drupal.org has 50,000 commits for core and contrib.

Congratulations to Morbus Iff, your present is on its way ...

(No, I am not obsessed with meaningless numbers. I can stop any time. That is what my therapist told me!)

Just wanted to let you all know that we split the infrastructure mailing list into two parts: a mailing list for Drupal.org webmasters, and a mailing list for Drupal.org server administrators. This separation should allow us to better coordinate the maintenance and development of the various Drupal.org websites.

The "Drupal.org webmasters" are responsible for the organization of the websites, the Drupal.org brand, blocking spam, dealing with user account problems and so on. The "Drupal.org server administrators" on the other hand, fiddle with the Apache and MySQL configurations, the mail server, the CVS repositories, and will take on the task of upgrading the various Drupal.org websites.

In addition to a dedicated mailing list, each group also got a dedicated issue tracker: issues for webmasters and issues for server administrators. If you bump into a problem related to the Drupal.org websites, try to select the correct project.

And last but not least, we're actively looking for more people to get involved with the day-to-day maintenance of all our infrastructure and the continued development of new bells and whistles. As you might have read, Drupal grew by more than 230% in 2006, and hopefully we'll be able to welcome many new users throughout 2007. This continued growth requires us not only to streamline our workflow, but also to get more people on board to help.