Be Circle Podcast 4: Drupal Alpha 2, Upgrading Drupal, DUGTO

Audio Podcast: 

episode4-02212010.mp3

Be Circle Podcast 4: Drupal 7 Alpha 2, Upgrading Drupal, DUGTO (Drupal User's Group Toronto Ontario)

Today I follow up on some topics from Be Circle Podcast 3 and touch on the adoption of Drupal 6 and Drupal upgrade paths.

Note: I noticed that I tend to say 'we' a lot in my podcasts. I usually mean we as users or we as a community and don't want to infer that we (as in the royal we, as in Be Circle) are necessarily claiming ownership of happenings or code or anything for that matter. I'm going to try and be a bit more clear in the future.

• Drupal 7 Alpha 2 Released with 250+ fixes
• jQuery 1.4.2 was also released. The second minor point release since jQuery 1.4 dropped last month
• Monthly Toronto meeting February 22nd 2010 at the Centre for Social Innovation - 215 Spadina
• A Survey of 2,368 Drupal Sites by John Forsyth. 53% of Drupal sites run Drupal 6. 42% still run Drupal 5. Why? How might they upgrade - if ever.

Drupal Documentation Team

Its that time again. Its that time when members of the Drupal community are franticly submitting and reviewing patches in a race to introduce great new functionality to Drupal before the Drupal 7 code freezecorrected link (coming September 1st 2009).

But, before new functionality can be introduced all that functionality needs to be documented. One can see an equally frenzied group of dedicated individuals helping document all of Drupal 7 before it ships.

If you're not a coder but want to get involved in the Drupal community in some way, getting involved with the documentation team may be your ticket to Drupal stardom. (Just ask add1sun how she became a Drupal superstar)

If that sounds good to you, perhaps the best place to start is by visiting http://groups.drupal.org/documentation-team. There you will find everything you want to know about what's happening in Drupal documentation and how you can help.