Hi,

After a smaller release last week due to more focus on the IA, this week's iteration has brought with it some important, exciting and rather large developments.

As with previous weeks, Leisa has been providing rationale based on her user testing and the latest posts on the redesign can be read on her site, including the strategy for the documentation section:

http://www.disambiguity.com/

Hi,

Iteration 8 is now available for you to browse and comment on. Last week the redesign took a pretty drastic change in direction so this week's release isn't as massive as we have worked to consolidate changes to the IA, reacting to feedback from the testing and to trends we have established in the community feedback.

Last week Leisa posted her thoughts on why we have moved in this direction and you can read her thoughts here:

http://www.disambiguity.com/drupalorg-redesign-iteration-7-for-your-revi...

Leisa will also be posting again shortly to further discuss our thoughts and reasons for recent changes as well as talking specifically about the modules section.

The link to the latest iteration is below:

http://drupal.markboultondesign.com/iteration8

There have been a lot of bug fixes as well as the a complete rewrite of the checkout. The checkout ATM is only a single page and options like changing address and payment type have not been put back in. These are going to use the #ahah feature of the new formapi to allow users to change much easier. I am going to put back multi page checkouts, but this will be done by configuration and not be forced on the site admin.

The checkout api has completely changed and is now much more modular and should allow for much better formed functions.

Hi,

We received some fantastic feedback on iteration 6 last week, but we have a few more iterations to go, so your thoughts and comments are more important to the process now than ever before.

You will notice with iteration 7 that we have made some quite drastic changes over the last week ... changes that we feel better serve existing Drupal users AND people new to Drupal. Leisa will be posting shortly (here it is) with our thinking on some of these proposed changes.

Hi,

Following on from last week's call for feedback on iteration 5 of the prototype ... we have now progressed to iteration 6, whereby we have begun to integrate the visual design into the prototype, making the prototype feel more like a website now and less like wireframes.

We encourage you to browse through the prototype and feedback your thoughts and ideas in this thread. The link to the latest iteration is below (please note the slight change in URL - this is because of a new version of Blueprint, and additions to CSS etc.):

http://drupal.markboultondesign.com/visual/iteration6

DrupalDay, Italian association for the development and promotion of the famous Open Source CMS, is pleased to announce the first DrupalDay.

The event will be held Friday 28th November 2008 from 9,30 am to 5,30 pm at Auditorium of Polytechnic of Milan located in Viale Romagna, 62 in Milan (Italy).

The program will provide a wide range of reports on technical and functional issues and offer opportunities for debates and comparison.

The event is hosted by POUL, no profit student association and is sponsored by Wellnet, web software house in Milan. Participation is free but a pre-registration is recommended.

Hi All,

The redesign has made great progress over recent weeks and we would really like to share this with you!

Below is a link to the latest iteration of the redesign prototype. Please take the time to look through the pages and feedback your thoughts and ideas in this thread.

http://drupal.markboultondesign.com/iteration5

We also welcome comments on the initial design and visuals, and as with previous weeks, all posts here will be read and fed back into the redesign process

http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/bsc/peps/2008/00000061/00000003/ar...

I saw this article referenced in the economist. Groups.drupal.org has done wonders for the community by empowering local and working groups and giving them control over their groups. What we seem to be missing is training. Does it make sense to provide training for group organizers and event managers?

Discuss.

The redesign has been doing lots of great stuff, rethinking how we approach Drupal.org. We should take this opportunity to really think about how we present documentation on the site. There has been a lot of talk and there are lots of little nits of annoyance in addition to the larger complaint of organization with regard to the handbooks. I wanted to try to gather up at least some of the larger things for us to consider and continue the discussion so that we can focus on specific changes while we have the services of MBD available to us.

I've been pointed in the direction of the High Performance group to discuss my requirements (http://drupal.org/node/317535). I’m looking at building a gallery site that runs the following predicted metrics each month:

• 320k visits
• 200k unique visits
• 5m page views

• 14k uploads
• 16Gb total uploads

Anecdotally I'm being told that running this on Drupal is a risk, but all the documentation suggests that as long as we have good (dedicated) hardware, good 'normal' website tuning practices and a caching facility, then we should be OK.