Drupal.org changes for the sprint from 26 Feb to 11 Mar 2018
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Upcoming Changes
Distinguishing 'countries you have a physical presence in' from 'countries in which you do business' for organization profiles
On several occasions there has been confusion from both service providers and for end-users as to whether a particular service provider has a physical presence in a country, vs simply doing business in that country while not being located there. To resolve this issue we're going to break these into two separate fields on organization profiles, and adjust the marketplace filtering options accordingly.
Change record: https://www.drupal.org/node/2937428
Status: targeting week of 2018-03-05
Show all historical credits on user profiles
Right now, we only show the most recent year's worth of contributions on user profiles. This was because we did not have historical data when first creating the credit system.
However, we want to make it possible to see the full history of a user's contributions, so we will begin displaying all user credits from the time that the credit system was implemented (April 2015).
Change record: https://www.drupal.org/node/2937429
Issue(s): https://www.drupal.org/node/2042697
Status: targeting week of 2018-03-05
Show all historical credits on organization profiles
For organizations, we currently only display their contributions from the past 90 days. This is a deliberate choice to encourage ongoing contribution, and matches the ranking factors used in the marketplace. However, there is value in being able to see an organization's complete contribution history, so we'll provide the option to see an organization's credits going back to the beginning of recorded credit (April 2015).
Change record: https://www.drupal.org/node/2937430
Issue(s): https://www.drupal.org/project/drupalorg/issues/2649100, https://www.drupal.org/node/2042697
Status: targeting week of 2018-03-05
Ongoing Changes
Improve the gender field on Drupal.org
The gender field is an optional field on Drupal.org profiles, which is used for any member of the community who wants to positively and publicly affirm their gender/gender identity within the community. While some members of this community subscribe to the 'its no ones business' attitude, for others positively affirming this visibility is important, so we want to make the option available.
We will likely be updating the existing field to use something like drupal.org/project/gender instead of the current custom field, so that it can continue to be updated as that project updates. We have also suggested that the project include the Open Demographics 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: Looking for a good user interface plan for implementing Open Demographics Initiative
More flexible top-level navigation on Drupal.org
We are experimenting with ways to improve the top level navigation on Drupal.org - making it easier for users of different personas to find the areas of the site that are best targeted to them. This might involve adding drop down menus to the main navigation.
Change record: https://www.drupal.org/node/2925124
Issue: https://www.drupal.org/node/2481515 , https://www.drupal.org/project/content/issues/2223199
Status: Experimenting on a dev site. This change will not necessarily be deployed if we don't find a good navigation schema.
Production servers being updated
Old webnodes have been phased out, and we are continuing to migrate services to their newer instances.
Most recent update: Git server migration is complete, the remaining servers are Solr, logging, and Media/NFS
Change Record: https://www.drupal.org/node/2827899
Status: Remaining: Solr, Media/NFS
DrupalCI: Repurposing owned hardware to run testbots
We are repurposing some of our owned hardware as vmhosts to run dedicated testbots. These bots are not as high performance as our AWS spot instances, and therefore will be used for the daily and weekly tests, rather than for commit or patch tests which developers may be waiting for.
Change record: https://www.drupal.org/node/2883929
Status: TBD after the production server updates above are complete.
Previous Sprint Changes
DDOS Mitigation
We enabled some features of PerimeterX in response to a series of DDOS attacks against Drupal.org.
Status: Continuing to tune.
New issue “Security issues …” message should be displayed with 'warning' formatting
We now use the 'Warning' formatting for security issues messages on issue creation.
Issue: https://www.drupal.org/project/drupalorg/issues/939714
Status: done
Clean up the 'skip-to' links for accessibility
When navigating Drupal.org via keyboard - the skip to main content and skip to search links are now more visible in the center top of the page.
Issue: https://www.drupal.org/project/bluecheese/issues/2224253
Status: done
Adjust credit calculation to use the 'status last changed' date instead of 'updated date'
In a previous sprint we added a new column to issues, recording the date that the status of an issue last changed. This means that we can now more easily tell when an issue was resolved, rather than resetting that date if additional comments are added. This has now been factored into the contribution credit algorithm. This has been factored in for both individuals and organizations.
Issue: https://www.drupal.org/project/drupalorg/issues/2745989
Status: done
Issue status update links to comments now work on multi-page comments
Email notifications for comments on multi-page comment threads will now link to the proper page within the comments.
Issue: https://www.drupal.org/project/drupalorg/issues/2933527
Status: done
Projects on Drupal.org no longer allow .zip file attachments
Projects no longer allow .zip file attachments. (Note we are still distributing releases in .zip format, this is for file attachments to project nodes)
Status: done
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