Drupal.org infrastructure status and growth presentation
Narayan Newton and I gave a talk at Drupalcon on the state of the http://drupal.org infrastructure. Narayan, Gerhard, David, and myself are currently working on a infrastructure budget proposal for the Drupal association. This proposal will give you some insight into the challenges of running Drupal.org and why it is not just another Drupal site. In fact, our use of Drupal as a web application platform for Drupal.org pushes the Drupal project in many directions that lead to innovation.
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Bryan House
It is that phase of my life! I'm just turning 30 in a month, working with Drupal for 7 years and just had my third Acquia anniversary a week ago. Time to look back and evaluate how things went, all the good and bad things; even better if the wisdom can be shared with others. This was part of my thinking when I submitted the session titled "Come for the software, stay for the community" for Drupalcon Copenhagen.
Gábor Hojtsy
It sounded like a really simple request: "Is it easy to add a search filter for 'My posts'?". In other words, add a search result facet for posts by the current (logged in) user through the Apache Solr Search Integration module APIs?
But then the wheels start turning - we want not just one blind link, but a real facet link that tells us how many results we'll get. Also, if we are filtering by 'My posts' then we probably have an equal use case for the opposite filter 'Posts not by me'. So we really need a facet block with two links and facets counts.
Peter Wolanin
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Hi Kieran, that's what I've
Hi Kieran,
that's what I've been thinking about the drupal.org redesign for a while. Having to deal with common problems while upgrading from D5 to D6 as well as planning and running the required infrastructure for drupal.org gives you a sense of the common headaches we all get when upgrading and/or having to plan worst case scenarios.
These needs lead to changes and innovation. Sharing insights and solutions adds quality to the whole platform and thereby helps others.
Unfortunately archives.org is just soo slow the video is almost useless, same as with the DCDC videos also hostet by archives.org. I don't know whether this is temporary or related to overseas bandwidth issues for us sitting in Europa (Germany to be precise).
Alex