Drupal.org changes for the sprint from 26 Mar to 8 Apr 2018
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Announcements
DrupalCon Nashville 2018
There will be no change notices for the spring from the 9th - 22nd of April, as the Drupal Association team will be on the ground in Nashville supporting DrupalCon.
We hope to see you there!
Security Release
A highly critical security release for Drupal will be released this Wednesday, March 28th. Please refer to the PSA for more information.
We'd like to thank the security team for their tremendous work. Show them your appreciation at @drupalsecurity
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: ready for deployment
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 2018-04-02
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 2018-04-02
Ongoing Changes
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: Planning the module design
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
Accessibility: Issue credit attribution can be navigated with screen readers
The dialog for assigning individual and organizational credit in issue comments has been updated for better compatibility with assistive devices. It should now be more easily navigable with screen readers + keyboard interaction.
Change record: https://www.drupal.org/node/2956456
Issue: https://www.drupal.org/node/2793413
Status: Deployed, but needs review from an accessibility expert
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: Deployed, and available to be configured when we are ready to adjust the IA
Added follow/unfollow links to documentation discussion pages
When receiving email notifications about a documentation discussion, the user is typically directed to the discuss page. However, to follow or unfollow the conversation, they needed to view the documentation page itself. We've updated the documentation system so users can now follow/unfollow directly from the discussion page.
Change record: https://www.drupal.org/node/2956458
Issue: https://www.drupal.org/node/2910226
Status: Deployed
Add Drupal versions to documentation page titles for better clarity/SEO
There are thousands and thousands of pages of community contributed documentation on Drupal.org, and ensuring that it is findable is critical to its utility. We've updated the meta tag information for these pages to make it easier to find content within the larger hierarchy, and importantly, to make it easier to determine which Drupal version documentation is for.
The pattern used is [node:title] | [node:drupalorg-top-guide:title] guide on [site:name]
Change record: https://www.drupal.org/node/2956461
Issue: https://www.drupal.org/project/drupalorg/issues/1413004
Status: Deployed
Increase size attribute for "Module categories" multiple-value select
As a quick fix to make it easier to categorize projects, we've increased the size of the module categories multi-select field.
Change record: https://www.drupal.org/node/2956462
Issue: https://www.drupal.org/project/drupalorg/issues/2952070
Status: Deployed
Send an email notification when project maintainers are added
Just to ensure there are no dropped communications, when a new maintainer is added to a project we now send them an email notification.
Change record: https://www.drupal.org/node/2956463
Issue: https://www.drupal.org/project/project/issues/2784067
Status: Deployed
Documentation: Automatically approve new contrib guides
To ease the process of adding new documentation guides for D7 and D8 contrib modules, new contrib Documentation Guides will now automatically be approved.
Change record: https://www.drupal.org/node/2956464
Issue: https://www.drupal.org/project/drupalorg/issues/2941066
Status: Deployed
Provide links to newer and older releases from the release nodes
In rare cases, there are sometimes patch releases which follow the same day as a new minor release (or a previous patch release). To make it easier to discover a new release, and simply to navigate recent release history from any individual release, other releases in the same major version are now included in the sidebar.
Change record: https://www.drupal.org/node/2956468
Issue: https://www.drupal.org/project/drupalorg/issues/2819501
Status: Deployed
Composer instructions on releases should take namespace map into account
Because we must avoid namespace collisions for Composer packages, Drupal.org provides a namespace mapping of Composer packages to Drupal projects. We've updated the automatically generated instructions on release pages to ensure they use this mapping.
Change record: https://www.drupal.org/node/2956469
Issue: https://www.drupal.org/project/drupalorg/issues/2946200
Status: Deployed
DrupalCI: Drupal.org/PIFT should send a build.yml file to the testbots
As part of our effort to give developers more control of their DrupalCI builds, we've updated the testbots to take in a build.yml file from Drupal.org
Change record: https://www.drupal.org/node/2956470
Issue: https://www.drupal.org/project/project_issue_file_test/issues/2909467
Status: Deployed
DrupalCI: Allow a modified drupalci.yml to change the testbot build
DrupalCI now looks for a drupalci.yml file when constructing the testbot build, and will respect overrides and additions from that file when running tests. This allows a much greater degree of flexibility in testing.
Many thanks to contributor Mile23.
Change record: https://www.drupal.org/node/2956471
Issue: https://www.drupal.org/project/drupalci_testbot/issues/2949249
Status: Deployed
DrupalCI: Allow projects to contain their own drupalci.yml file
Projects may now include their own drupalci.yml file to add their own custom configuration for testing. We are still working on the documentation for this new feature
Many thanks to contributor Mile23.
Change record: https://www.drupal.org/node/2956472
Issue: https://www.drupal.org/project/drupalci_testbot/issues/2949249
Status: Deployed
DrupalCI: Allow themes to be testable
We have enabled DrupalCI testing for themes on Drupal.org.
Change record: https://www.drupal.org/node/2956473
Issue: https://www.drupal.org/project/drupalci/issues/2769599
Status: Deployed
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