Drupal.org redesign’s dashboard

An important part of the Drupal.org redesign is the dashboard. Power users have a towers of navigation, contributor, and/or documentation links on every page. That is clutter when you don’t need to jump to another section of the site. And one size does not fit all; there are a few options now, but either you turn on a block of links or you don’t.

The redesigned pages clean up the administrative clutter. You will be able to build your own, or keep the good defaults, dashboard to watch and get to what you care about. However, the content in the prototype is mostly positional. We need to design and build the widgets that are most useful for the Drupal community. We need to know what will help you be more productive on Drupal.org.

I started building out a dashboard module at the previous Drupal.org redesign sprints. But, it needs a lot more work. In addition to the issue queue, I made a wiki page to track priorities. I’ll be at DrupalCon Paris looking for people to help work on this important functionality.

By the way, the API.drupal.org work I wrote about, launched a few days ago. Thanks for all the testing and feedback. There are already a a few comments. There are still a lot of improvements needed, especially rewriting the parser. Find me if you want to help make more improvements.