<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV>Hi, the survey[1] ran for 31 days and we collected almost 900 responses. I'll put together a formal summary of the results and post on Drupal.org.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><B>Summary of administration problems</B><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">Drupal is missing an overview of the site for administrators. We need to allow administrators to visualize and </FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">deliver a cohesive, compelling, and highly dynamic user experience to their end users.</FONT></DIV><DIV>TODO: Create a Drupal Dashboard. Focus on tasks with textual explanations and provide administrators information about activities on their site</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><B>Top administration tasks</B></DIV><DIV>1. Administer content such as comments-83% of respondents</DIV><DIV>ACTION: Jeremy Andrews, for CivicSpace Labs(CSL), has a multiple comment patch to make administering comments easier.</DIV><DIV>2. Install new modules and learn new features- 83% respondents</DIV><DIV>ACTION: Wrote 81 administration help handbook pages for Drupal Handbook : CSL and the Drupal Docs team</DIV><DIV>ACTION: Committed administration help for 31 modules in Drupal core and dozens of contributed modules. CSL.</DIV><DIV>ACTION: Developed project module to allow categorization of modules on Drupal.org</DIV><DIV>ACTION: Developed project module to report to Drupal.org what modules are being used and infrastructure to identify if modules have updates(security review pending).</DIV><DIV>TODO: Card sort contributed modules</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><B>Difficult administration tasks</B><BR></DIV><DIV>1. Manage inconsistency in themes- <A href="http://drupal.org/node/37156">http://drupal.org/node/37156</A></DIV><DIV>ACTION: Wrote managing inconsistencies in theme with community</DIV><DIV>ACTION: Conducted 6 theme developer interviews to identify theme development tasks for Drupal theme help documentation</DIV><DIV>ACTION: Launched Drupal theme mailing list, and launched #drupal-themes</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>2. Find pages that are deeply linked:</DIV><DIV>TODO: Change content type administration to be 3 links deep, not 4</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>3. Configure blocks for roles</DIV><DIV>TODO: Configure blocks for roles</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>4. Understand Drupal terminology and synonyms- Need to do study</DIV><DIV>TODO: Conduct survey of CMS standard terminology and user expectations of terminology</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>5. Update site to a new version of Drupal</DIV><DIV>ACTION: Added UPGRADE.txt with basic instructions</DIV><DIV>ACTION: Ported CivicSpace upgrade instructions to <A href="http://drupal.org/upgrade/tutorial-introduction">http://drupal.org/upgrade/tutorial-introduction</A></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>6. Compare Drupal files</DIV><DIV>ACTION: Developed project module infrastructure to send messages potentially including module version information and updates.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>7. Administer categories with the taxonomy module</DIV><DIV>TODO: Interview users about taxonomy</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>8. Order and organize content.</DIV><DIV>TODO: Interview users about how to order and organize content</DIV><DIV>TODO: Categorize modules that order and organize content</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>9. Administer structure of content.</DIV><DIV>TODO: Research capabilities for modifying structure of content</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>10. Administer Menu's</DIV><DIV>ACTION: Assigned Richard Archer menu maintainer</DIV><DIV>TODO: Card sort default Drupal menu items</DIV><DIV>TODO: Separate administration menu from navigation menu to be more situationally relevant</DIV><DIV>TODO: Remove or make optional user name label for navigation menu</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>11. Administer site navigation</DIV><DIV>TODO: Research capabilities for global, local, contextual, and situational navigation</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Links: </DIV><DIV>1. <FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0021E8"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: underline;"><A href="http://www.surveymonkey.com/DisplaySummary.asp?SID=1425065&U=142506581557">http://www.surveymonkey.com/DisplaySummary.asp?SID=1425065&U=142506581557</A></SPAN></FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>