Drupal.org changes for the sprint from 7 May to 20 May 2018

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Upcoming Changes

Implementing content analysis anti-spam protection

After the end-of-life of Mollom, we are seeing a surge of spam attacks on Drupal.org. We have been using Akismet as a replacement in monitoring-only mode, and will enable it shortly to provide content analysis protection against spam attacks moving forward.

Change record: https://www.drupal.org/node/2925126

Issue: https://www.drupal.org/project/drupalorg/issues/2925121

Status: In progress

Review contributed work to update the Drupal 8 User guide to support video embeds

The community led Drupal 8 User guide team would like to add support for embedded video content in the Drupal 8 user guide. We are working to review and deploy this work.

Many thanks to users: jhodgdon, eojthebrave, and to Drupalize.me for contributing the content.

Change record: https://www.drupal.org/node/2966115

Issue: https://www.drupal.org/project/user_guide/issues/2944883

Status: Targeting the week of 2018-05-07

Converting drupal.org/about/strategic-initiatives to the Section content type

There are quite a few active initiatives underway in Drupal core, and we'd like to level up the tools used to manage strategic initiatives on Drupal.org. We'll be upgrading the about/strategic-initiatives landing page into a full section, and giving initiative leads control over the initiative landing pages using some of the same tools recently used in the Drupal.org front page and persona page redesign.

Change record: https://www.drupal.org/node/2971202

Issue: https://www.drupal.org/project/ideas/issues/2922986

Status: Targeting the week of 2018-05-07

Converting drupal.org/documentation to the Section content type

Designing a better top-level landing page for Drupal.org/documentation is a key priority this year. To start, we'll be converting the existing landing page with its current content to the full section content type, and granting Documentation Working Group members more control over the function and layout of this landing page. There are additional features and requirements being discussed in the issue that may be completed as follow ups.

Change record: https://www.drupal.org/node/2971204

Issue: https://www.drupal.org/project/documentation/issues/2828874

Status: Targeting the week of 2018-05-07

Improve accessibility on the home page

While the new animations on the Drupal.org homepage provide a fresh and dynamic look and feel, animations can cause motion sickness for some users. We have implemented support for 'prefers-reduced-motion' to disable animations in the browsers which support it. Keyboard/accessibility device navigation still needs to be improved.

Change record: https://www.drupal.org/node/2966114

Issue: https://www.drupal.org/project/drupalorg/issues/2961004

Status: Initial work deployed - some follow ups to do.

CkEditor should warn that paths to images must be local

Drupal.org only supports embedding local images in content, and so this means that the CKEditor image functions should warn users to use local image paths.

Change record: https://www.drupal.org/node/2966117

Issue: https://www.drupal.org/project/drupalorg/issues/2956542

Status: Targeting the week of 2018-05-07

On user profiles, indicate if the user's 'work' organization has an organization node on Drupal.org

Many of the organizations that users on Drupal.org work for have organization profiles. We want to link to those org profiles to create a better connection between users and their orgs.

Change record: https://www.drupal.org/node/2966118

Issue: https://www.drupal.org/node/2442973

Status: Targeting the week of 2018-05-07

Ongoing Changes

Preparing for GDPR

GDPR takes effect on May 25th, and we are preparing for compliance on Drupal.org and the sub-sites. Follow the drupal.org blog for more information about our GDPR compliance process.

Status: In progress

Preparing for upcoming elections for a community-at-large director seat

Elections for a community-at-large director seat are coming up soon. We're reviewing our elections infrastructure to ensure it's ready to go for this year's elections process.

More information will be posted to the Drupal Association blog shortly.

Status: In progress

Importing existing donation and membership data to new membership system

If you've ever needed to look up a history of your donations to the DA for tax purposes, you'll be happy for this one. Now you will see the full history of donations, not including memberships, on your Drupal.org profile.

Change record: https://www.drupal.org/node/2956455

Issue: https://www.drupal.org/project/drupalorg/issues/2934492

Status: In progress

Implementing Open Demographics Initiative on Drupal.org

To improve the inclusiveness of our community, we want to provide better tools for understanding our community, and for allowing members of our community (at their choice) to positively affirm their identity and expression.

There are a number of important axes of identity and expression, however. We are evaluating making a module to include the Open Demographics Initiative, by @drnikki, with input from @sagesharp, @rachel_norfolk, @justafish, among others.

Change record: https://www.drupal.org/node/2944177

Issue: https://www.drupal.org/project/drupalorg/issues/2938949

Status: We connected with some of the people involved in ODI at DrupalCon Nashville. The general consensus was that a good next step is for ODI to evolve into an API (providing the questions and their responses canonically as JSON, for example).