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We will be taking git.drupal.org down (ssh, http and git:// protocol access) for 30 minutes starting at 10AM PDT (1700 UTC) September 14th. This maintainence window is for updating our git daemon to support updated security features. Please follow the … Why Drupal was chosen: Migrating from a raw HTML site, which had to be updated manually, Drupal 7 offers high-end publishing tools to quickly a… Update: Drupal 7.16 is now available. Download Drupal 7.15 Hello from Jennifer, your outgoing Drupal Documentation Team leader! As I step down as leader of the Documentation team, I wanted to make one last quarterly status update post for the Documentation Team. Leadership ChangePeople in the Drupal project are currently exploring Drupal community governance, and among the questions they’ll be thinking about are the leadership and structure of the Documentation Team — so expect an announcement sometime soon! In the meantime, I’m not going to be hosting Documentation Office Hours, but if someone else wants to schedule an Office Hours, go ahead and post an event to the Documentation groups.drupal.org page. Milestones, Accomplishments, and Projects in progress
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Olá! Join Drupal project founder Dries Buytaert and core committer Angie Byron this December 6-8 in beautiful Brazil to bring a little Carnaval to Drupal. DrupalCon São Paulo will focus primarily on content for Drupal developers, but there will of course be plenty to offer for designers, themers, project managers, architects, engineers, and those involved with the business side of Drupal. The multi-lingual conference program will feature a sessions in English, Portuguese and Spanish, as well as plenty of opportunities for informal “Birds of a Feather” meetings and a coder lounge that will be open throughout the conference. Small and intimate, we expect DrupalCon São Paulo to capture the feel of early DrupalCons. Our goal is to make it easier for attendees to meet the people that are deeply involved in the Drupal community and find out how to become involved themselves. Sprinters wanted!DrupalCon São Paulo immediately follows the Drupal 8 feature freeze deadline. There will be a hosted sprint focused on getting D8 features polished for core. Lead by Angie Byron and other key core contributors, this will be a dedicated day for crafting code, preparing APIs and tidying the documentation. There will be plenty for everyone to do, and it’s a great time to get involved to help make D8 the best version of Drupal yet. All hands on deck!> Submit Your Session Proposal Now!Share what you know and choose your lingo! We are actively soliciting session proposals in Portugese, Spanish, and/or English. Learn more and submit your session proposal today! Tracks that will be offered at DrupalCon São Paulo include:
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The session schedule is now live for DrupalCon Munich, taking place in August 20-24, 2012. We hope you have your ticket for DrupalCon Munich already or you’ll be missing out on over 80 sessions across 6 tracks including: Coding and Development, Community, Frontend, Business and Strategy, Sitebuilding and DevOps plus a Day Stage, BoFs and Core Conversations. Start putting together your schedule today and plan your trip! Simply view the session you’re interested in, and click “Add to schedule.” The session schedule is now live for DrupalCon Munich, taking place in August 20-24, 2012. We hope you have your ticket for DrupalCon Munich already or you’ll be missing out on over 80 sessions across 6 tracks including: Coding and Development, Community, Frontend, Business and Strategy, Sitebuilding and DevOps plus a Day Stage, BoFs and Core Conversations. Start putting together your schedule today and plan your trip! Simply view the session you’re interested in, and click “Add to schedule.” Key Conference Dates:August 20 – Pre-conference trainings — Choose from eight – from beginners to advanced + API Hack-a-thon All of this for €475 conference fee! Thank you to our wonderful sponsors for helping this to remain one of the lowest cost open source conferences around. Get your ticket to DrupalCon Munich today. What are you waiting for? We want to see you in Bavaria! P.S. Conference registration is €475 until July 31 or when tickets are gone! There are also a limited number of €200 priced student tickets still available. Sign up on the DrupalCon mailing list to stay informed! Follow @drupalcon on Twitter or find us on Facebook. On Monday, July 2 from 6:00 PM to 6:30 PM PDT (01:00 to 01:30 UTC), drupal.org will be briefly brought down for updates. The main website, drupal.org, will be inaccessible, as will SSH-based access, both read and write, to all Git repositories hosted o… Drupal Global Training Days is this Friday, June 22! This is a day where training companies around the world will introduce new and beginning users to Drupal through half day, full day and virtual sessions. More than sixteen training companies representing Asia Pacific, North America, Europe, South America (and two online!) are signed up to participate on June 22. The Drupal Association launched this program of free or low cost training events to provide an easy way for new users to be introduced to Drupal and our wonderful Drupal community. The June 22 Drupal Global Training Days will be offered with one of two curriculums:
For a listing of all training locations across the globe: http://drupal.org/learn-drupal. Upcoming dates include September 14 and December 14, 2012. Help us spread the wordHelp introduce a new user to Drupal by tweeting and blogging about these events! Use #learndrupal and spread the word about course(s) near you. A sample tweet: June 22nd is #Drupal Global Training Day! http://drupal.org/learn-drupal Come learn about the best open source CMS system #learndrupal! If you are a trainer and would like join in on the future Drupal Global Training Days on September 14 and December 14, 2012 get in touch today. Thank you to those of you participating in expanding the Drupal community and helping others Learn Drupal on June 22! This post aims to share information about the Drupal Security Team in 2011 and midway through 2012. The team processed a significant number of security advisories, added a few members, improved the free education materials in the handbooks, presented at dozens of camps and user groups, and made several improvements to our workflow (including some user facing changes, see below). Some quick numbers:
You may notice that for the calendar year of 2011 there were fewer SAs than there were issues created. There are lots of reasons why that happens (mostly invalid issues or issues that affect versions not supported by our policy). Improved security issue reporting processThis change is so exciting that it deserves its own section in addition to being listed below. The “Report a Security Issue” link on project pages now links directly to the security.drupal.org issue queue for that project. Using that link instead of sending an e-mail removes one of the final “copy/paste” jobs from the security team’s workflow.
We plan to always monitor security@drupal.org for issue submissions as well because that is a standard tool and we want to keep the barrier for reporters as low as possible. In January of 2012 there were 617 non-spam emails sent to that list and thousands of total e-mails which we have to moderate manually. So please remember: using the queue directly instead of emailing keeps us focused on our most important tasks. Improvements to the team workflowAt events through the year like Drupalcon Chicago and BADCamp, several team members worked in sprints to improve the tools on Security.Drupal.org. The Security Team process has historically been heavily reliant on email communication between the researchers reporting issues, the team, and drupal.org module/theme maintainers (see a recent high-level infographic on the team’s process). All three groups of people in that chain are volunteers who have other demands, so the e-mail communication was a common source of slowdown in progress toward issue resolution. While we created a private issue tracker in October of 2006 we were still reliant on private emails for much of the workflow. Many of the improvements below address this set of problems. This work resulted in a number of positive outcomes for the team workflow.
This work required not only coding, testing, and deployment but also new documentation to help project maintainers to use it. These and other improvements to our workflow mean that we spend more of our volunteer hours working on the most valuable areas instead of manual tasks that don’t use the security team members special skills. New members and role changesAs often happens, the team welcomed new members in the last year and a half. These new members had expressed interest in Drupal for several years and shown themselves to be good communicators who can be trusted with the confidential information that the team must handle.
During the year I (Greg Knaddison) took over as team lead from Heine Deelstra. Heine had been team lead for 5 years prior to that and stayed on the team as a member. Mori Sugimoto, Kieran Lal, and Matt Chapman continue in their roles as team coordinators. I would like to re-iterate what I have already said to the team in private: Thank You! The job of the team keeps growing and growing and we are both working harder and smarter to keep up. If you encounter someone who is on the team I encourage you to thank them for their work. Security is often cited as a reason not to use Open Source software, so it’s important that we continue to have such a robust team working with effective processes so the Drupal project can continue to grow. I selected Angela “webchick” Byron as my co-maintainer for Drupal 7 back in DrupalCon Szeged in August 2008. Since then, together we shepherded efforts of 1,000 core contributors to create Drupal 7, got the release out the door in January of last year,… Drupal.org and its sub-sites (api.drupal.org, groups.drupal.org, etc) will be going down for 20 minutes Monday, May 7, 5:00 PDT (May 8, 00:00 UTC). This maintenance window will be used to upgrade our single sign on system. Please follow the @drupal_inf… Update: Drupal 7.15 and Drupal 6.27 are now available. Drupal 7.14 is now available, which contains bug fixes as well as fixes for security vulnerabilities from Drupal 7.13. Drupal 6.26, which fixes known bugs (no security issues) is also available for download. Upgrading your existing Drupal 7 and 6 sites is strongly recommended. There are no new features in these releases. For more information about the Drupal 7.x release series, consult the Drupal 7.0 release announcement, more information on the 6.x releases can be found in the Drupal 6.0 release announcement. Drupal 5 is no longer maintained, upgrading to Drupal 7 is recommended.
Security informationWe have a security announcement mailing list, a history of all security advisories, and an RSS feed with the most recent security advisories. We strongly advise Drupal administrators to sign up for the list. Drupal 7 and 6 include the built-in Update status module, which informs you about important updates to your modules and themes. Bug reportsBoth Drupal 7.x and 6.x branches are being maintained, so given enough bug fixes (not just bug reports) more maintenance releases will be made available, according to our monthly release cycle. ChangelogDrupal 7.13 only includes fixes for security issues. Drupal 7.14 also includes bugfixes. The full list of changes between the 7.12 and 7.14 releases can be found by reading the 7.14 release notes. A complete list of all bug fixes in the stable 7.x branch can be found in the git commit log. Drupal 6.26 only includes bugfixes. Security vulnerabilitiesDrupal 7.13 were released in response to the discovery of security vulnerabilities. Details can be found in the official security advisory: To fix the security problems, please upgrade to Drupal 7.13. What is included with each release? We made two versions of Drupal 7 available, so you can choose to only include security fixes (Drupal 7.13) or security fixes and bugfixes (Drupal 7.14). You can choose your preferred version. We are trying to make it easier and quicker to roll out security updates by making security-only releases available as well as ones with bugfixes included. We hope this helps you roll out the fixes as soon as possible. Read more details in the handbook. Known issues- #1558548: Notice: Undefined index: default_image in image_field_prepare_view() – Upgrading from Drupal 7.x to Drupal 7.14 will yield a harmless but annoying PHP notice. Patch has been committed to 7.x-dev, and will be available in 7.15. A workaround in the meantime is visiting the field settings page and saving. The call for papers is still open for DrupalCon Munich — but only until May 11! Trainings too! The DrupalCon content team is looking for sessions that cover pushing the boundaries of Drupal and its increasing use as a cross platform system. Help shape what is presented at DrupalCon with this year’s theme, “Open Up! Connecting systems and people.” Any proposals for sessions should fit within one of the following tracks:
To learn more about each topic, view the Session Track page. Here you can find out the anticipated audience and the topic focus, as set forward by each track chair. Selected Sessions and Trainings will be announced May 29. Curious to learn how sessions are selected at DrupalCon? Learn more about the session selection process. Core conversations will open for submissions on May 29, read more about Core Conversations on our website. We are also inviting all organizations with training experience to submit proposals for the Pre-Conference Trainings, to be held on Monday, 20th August 2012. Open Up – submit your session before May 11! We look forward to seeing you in Munich August 20-24. Join the Drupal community in Europe this summer and register now for early-bird pricing. We are thrilled to announce that Google will be sponsoring 13 Drupal projects for Summer of Code 2012. We would like to extend our sincere thanks to Google, who are investing over $72,000 in the Drupal project. Back in 2009, Groups.Drupal.Org (GDO) went through a major transition including upgrading from Drupal 5 to Drupal 6, a redesign, and adding new maintainers. We are currently in the process of a similar transition. The site has already gone through a redesign, and as we make plans to transition to Drupal 7, we will also be moving to new maintainers for the next year. Making it easier to contribute to GDOBetween the Drupal Association’s initiative to improve *.drupal.org, the community brainstorming on site improvements, and feature requests in the Groups.Drupal.Org issue queue, there is clearly a lot of interest in making improvements to GDO. However, for folks who want to roll up their sleeves and help by filing a patch, the path to replicating GDO for development purposes hasn’t always been clear. As a strategy for making it easier for anyone in the Drupal community to file a patch and streamlining maintenance efforts for the site, we have proposed that GDO will run the Commons distribution of Drupal for Drupal 7. Of course, this means that improvements made to GDO benefit sites powered by Drupal Commons and vice-versa, that generic improvements to Commons will benefit GDO. New maintainers: Meet Ezra, Scott, and Justin   Helping with this transition, Ezra Gildesgame (ezra-g), maintainer of Drupal Commons, is also now a maintainer of groups.drupal.org. Ezra is the technical lead for Drupal distributions at Acquia, has been contributing to Drupal for over 5 years, and also maintains the Conference Organizing Distribution (COD). Our other new Groups.Drupal.Org maintainers are Scott Reynen (sreynen) and Justin Toupin (justin2pin) from Aten Design Group. Scott is Lead Developer at Aten and has been contributing to Drupal for over 5 years, including helping to organize the Denver group on GDO. Justin Toupin is CEO at Aten, and has been leading the organization’s involvement in Drupal since version 4.7. Getting involved: How you can make GDO betterThis process of upgrading Groups.Drupal.Org is an especially good time to get involved by joining a few different groups and queues:
Note that Ezra, Scott, and Justin have agreed to work on the site for at least a year. If you think you might want to take over in a year, the best way to do that is to get involved working on the site in these issue queues. Thanks, Greg & Josh!This is also a great opportunity to thank Greg Knaddison (greggles) and Josh Koenig for their help maintaining Groups.Drupal.Org over the past few years. Josh and Greg found they were too busy with other projects unrelated to community site building which made it harder to find time for GDO (Josh building Pantheon and Greg working with Acquia’s Profesional Services Security Group and the Drupal Security Team). Greg and Josh hope that transitioning to people who spend more of their lives working on community sites will help GDO be an even more valuable collaboration platform for our community. Hi friends. I’m hoping that you’ll support another Drupal community initiative that I’ve recently dreamed up. All you have to do is add a /drupalgive page to your organization’s web site. Bojhan Somers and Roy Scholten are the Drupal UX Team leads. We believe that Drupal 8 User Experience needs a lot of work to truly make all users of Drupal love what they are working with. We believe that by improving core, we improve the entire Drupal experience for everyone. How are we doing this? By working with core initiatives, providing ideas, sketches, wireframes, detailed designs, and actively engaging in discussion. D7UX taught us a lot of hard lessons, we now know how to communicate our design rationale more clearly, maintain a UX vision throughout the maze of issues, and empower developers. What are we working on? We are working on a few initiatives; mobile, blocks & layouts, multilingual and leading a lot of smaller efforts around improving our content authoring and site building experiences. Drupal 8 design progress so farContent creationOur content creation experience is still far from being great, but we have been improving the content creation experience from all angles. We have received lots of feedback on our proposals, and iterated with the community on various parts of this experience.
We have now finalized most of our research activities and we want to start implementing a few of our major ideas. For this to happen, we need developers who want to improve this part of core. There are two very actionable issues at #1510532: [META] Implement the new create content page design and #1510544: Allow to preview content in an actual live environment for you to help out on! Blocks & LayoutsThe blocks & layout initiative started by EclipseGC focuses on solving the messy experience of placing parts (blocks, views, panes) on the page. We believe this can be fundamentally better if we tackle it in core. This initiative will allow us to arrange and organize blocks into flexible layouts through a drag and drop interface. This initiative has many UX components, from finding the right blocks, to selecting the context, to creating mobile layouts. We have done a lot of research the past few months to understand the space we are designing for. It’s incredibly complex, but will be a huge win if we can provide a great solution straight out of the box.
We will need help from everyone; developers, designers, user researchers, end users and business owners! Become part of the discussion in the Drupal 8 Blocks & Layouts everywhere initiative group. UX team activities
UX team bi-weekly office hoursWe started to hold bi-weekly UX “office hours” (next one will take place 16 April, 20:00 UTC, 4PM NYC, 4 AM Tuesday Singapore/Shanghai), where we will discuss recent activities of the team but also review contributed modules. This has resulted in modules such as Taxonomy Acces Control making major improvements. UX team activityThe team has been busy in Q1 2012:
We have also released our ideas around redesigning the module page, adding a project browser to core, adding search everywhere, draft revisions and much more in the usability issue queue! We need your help!We need volunteers:
If you’re interested in becoming a contributor to the UX Team in one of the roles above, contact Bojhan Somers and/or Roy Scholten. You can find us in in the usability group, contact us directly by e-mail (or drupal.org contact form), join us on IRC in #drupal-usability, or find us in person at Frontend United. The cool stuff we’re working on Still not sure? We we love a lot more help to pursue all these crazy ideas within the next 7 months:
Thanks! - Bojhan and Roy
Hello from Jennifer, your friendly Drupal Documentation Team leader! It’s time for a quarterly update on what’s happening in the Documentation team. First off, I just want to remind everyone that I’m still planning to step down as Documentation Team Leader at the end of 2012. If you’re interested in becoming the co-leader or assistant leader now, and taking over at the end of 2012 as the main team leader, see http://groups.drupal.org/node/203258 for more information. It would be good to find someone soon! Events
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Docs InfrastructureLast year, the Docs Team (or at least its leadership) got a bit discouraged about Documentation infrastructure improvements taking quite a while to get deployed to Drupal.org. But now there’s a new process for getting improvements deployed, and Neil Drumm is working on them with hours funded by the Drupal Association. So, I’d like to get us working on improvements to “docs infrastructure” (tools, navigation, etc. for Drupal documentation writers and users) again. I started working on that this quarter, and several small things were deployed. That went well, so there are now more in progress. Two that we hope to get done soon are a Docs Team effort to have better navigation for Community Docs, and LoMo’s project to replace the Books page with a content type/View. Join in the discussion and/or help out! And as a preview, this summer I would like to really get working on the “curated docs” we’ve been talking about for a year or more… Watch http://groups.drupal.org/documentation-team for updates! Next StepsIf you’re interested in helping with Drupal documentation:
As announced on stage at DrupalCon Denver, we have just opened the Call for Papers for DrupalCon Munich 2012, as well as keynotes, call for trainings, scholarships, and registration. The Drupal Association and the Munich DrupalCon committee have been preparing for the next DrupalCon for months now. Things will move into high gear once DrupalCon Denver closes its doors, later this week. Announcing … Keynote speakersDrupalCon Munich announces three keynotes by open source and industry visionaries, including Dries Buytaert – the founder of the Drupal project talking about the future of Drupal on Tuesday, August 21; Anke Domscheit-Berg, a renowned expert in open government and open data, speaking on Tuesday, August 22; and Fabien Potencier, CEO of SensioLabs and founder of the Symfony project speaking on Wednesday, August 23. Call for papersYour contribution is needed! Come to Munich and share your expertise with the most amazing open source community in the world. Submit your session ideas at http://munich2012.drupal.org/call-for-papers Early Bird registration opens today!Registration for DrupalCon Munich is now open. The special early-bird rate is €350 for the first 300 tickets, after that the price is €400 until June 15, and 475 until July 31. Late registration after this date until August 17 will be €525. On-site registration will be €575. The is a limited number of tickets available at a rate of €200 for students and non profit organisations (all prices inclusive of VAT). Register now at http://munich2012.drupal.org/register. Call for trainingsThe Drupal project needs more contributors, site builders, users, and developers. We’re looking to cover the gamut from beginner to highly advanced trainings. Trainers and training companies, submit your trainings now! http://munich2012.drupal.org Scholarship applications are now openDrupal is for everyone and everyone can enrich the project. If you would like to come to DrupalCon Munich but cannot afford the cost, a limited number of scholarships will be available. Submit your application at http://munich2012.drupal.org/community/scholarships Keep up-to-date with all things Drupalcon Munich; follow @DrupalCon on Twitter. – Florian Lorétan (floretan) and Karsten Frohwein (kars-t), co-chairs of DrupalCon Munich |
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