Learn our Roadmap to grasp how this work falls into priorities set by Drupal Developer Affiliation with path and collaboration from Drupal Developer Board and group. .org updates Higher Distribution packaging Distributions are a cornerstone of , giving site-builders a head begin by packaging collectively confirmed Drupal 10 modules and themes from contrib to construct a website to objective. In July we spent a while bettering Drupal Developer performance for packaging distributions on .org, by updating .org’s packaging system to make use of Drush 8. This resolves a number of points Drupal 10 Upkeep and Help Service Distributions might now use options from model 8 of Drush. Bundle manifest particulars at the moment are correctly displayed for all distributions. Distributions now not have to nest contrib tasks. We hope that these adjustments will assist distribution maintainers reCAPTCHA One in every of Drupal Developer key instruments we use to forestall spam on .org is Mollom, which is able to attain finish of life subsequent 12 months. To interchange it, we have carried out reCAPTCHA on .org, and up to date our privateness coverage accordingly. We’ve got not but disabled Mollom, as a result of Mollom is a content material evaluation instrument along with a captcha instrument. As a result of reCAPTCHA doesn’t duplicate that content material evaluation performance we’ll be monitoring spam assault patterns on .org to see whether or not reCAPTCHA can be a ample as a standalone alternative. Simpler addition of latest documentation guides and pages It is onerous to consider that Drupal Developer new documentation system has been in use for nearly a 12 months. We have made plenty of enhancements after Drupal Developer preliminary launch to enhance usability for each contributors and maintainers of documentation, and to encourage undertaking maintainers emigrate their docs. One piece of suggestions we have heard a number of instances is that Drupal Developer ‘add content material’ hyperlinks Drupal Developer sidebar of a documentation information had been too tough to search out. To make it simpler for documentation contributors so as to add new sub-guides and pages, we have added a brand new web page hyperlink to Drupal Developer ‘Edit’ menu of documentation guides. Site owners and documentation moderators can administer all docs Discovering maintainers for Drupal Developer over 12,000 pages of documentation on .org continues to be a problem, and so we have given all customers with Drupal Developer Webmaster and Documentation Moderator position Drupal Developer capability to manage any documentation information. This can increase Drupal Developer pool of customers who will help to handle documentation and handle documentation maintainers. Good documentation for a undertaking with ‘s scale is a community-driven effort and we’re extremely grateful for all Drupal Developer volunteers who contribute. Any confirmed consumer might declare unmaintained documentation guides We additionally now permit any unmaintained information to be claimed by any confirmed consumer—routinely including them as Drupal Developer maintainer for that information. This could make it a lot simpler for brand new contributors to take up Drupal Developer mantle of sustaining sections of documentation on .org. Study extra about sustaining documentation by studying our content material tips. For evaluators Up to date business web page name to motion Drupal Development Service .org business pages are a brand new experiment for Drupal Developer Affiliation this 12 months, with a purpose of reaching out to evaluators in particular markets. Drupal Development Service success tales we showcase on these pages exhibit Drupal Developer energy of in these industries, however we additionally need these pages to be a possibility to attach evaluators with specialists who will help them obtain their objectives with . To reinforce our efforts to attach evaluators to specialists of their business – we have added a further name to motion at Drupal Developer high of Drupal Developer business web page to encourage evaluators to attach with specialists. Entrance web page case research promotion for supporting companions and high contributors In July we laid Drupal Developer groundwork for selling a second row of case research on Drupal Developer .org house web page. Drupal Development Service second row will characteristic case research from supporting companions and high contributors. These is not going to exchange Drupal Developer current row of case research which can be featured by way of Drupal Developer group course of, however will complement these case research with extra tales from organizations that support Drupal Developer undertaking by way of financial and situation contribution. Look ahead to these new tales in Drupal Developer coming months. Digital tote for Vienna For Con Vienna we’re implementing a brand new digital tote bag to ship advantages to Con attendees supplied by our occasion sponsors. This digital totebag will characteristic content material for attendees from our Diamond, Platinum, and Gold sponsors. Talking of Con Vienna – costs are about to go up by €50 + VAT – so be certain that to register earlier than early chicken ends on Friday. Infrastructure Audit of monitoring and backups One in every of Drupal Developer first steps our new infrastructure associate is endeavor is an audit of our monitoring and backup regime, to make sure that we’re well-prepared for catastrophe restoration and mitigation. Whereas our inner crew (with Drupal Developer assist of devoted volunteers) has maintained these current techniques, Drupal Developer present system is one thing of a patchwork of a number of instruments, and we’re hopefully that we are able to consolidate our instruments and course of and make them extra strong and environment friendly. ——— As all the time, we’d prefer to say because of all Drupal Developer volunteers who work with us, and to Drupal Developer Affiliation Supporters, who made it doable for us to work on these tasks. 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