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. Summary of administration problems Drupal is missing an overview of the site for administrators. We need to allow administrators to visualize and deliver a cohesive, compelling, and highly dynamic user experience to their end users. TODO: Create a Drupal Dashboard. Focus on tasks with textual explanations and provide administrators information about activities on their site Top administration tasks 1. Administer content such as comments-83% of respondents ACTION: Jeremy Andrews, for CivicSpace Labs(CSL), has a multiple comment patch to make administering comments easier. 2. Install new modules and learn new features- 83% respondents ACTION: Wrote 81 administration help handbook pages for Drupal Handbook : CSL and the Drupal Docs team ACTION: Committed administration help for 31 modules in Drupal core and dozens of contributed modules. CSL. ACTION: Developed project module to allow categorization of modules on Drupal.org 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). TODO: Card sort contributed modules Difficult administration tasks 1. Manage inconsistency in themes- http://drupal.org/node/37156 ACTION: Wrote managing inconsistencies in theme with community ACTION: Conducted 6 theme developer interviews to identify theme development tasks for Drupal theme help documentation ACTION: Launched Drupal theme mailing list, and launched #drupal-themes 2. Find pages that are deeply linked: TODO: Change content type administration to be 3 links deep, not 4 3. Configure blocks for roles TODO: Configure blocks for roles 4. Understand Drupal terminology and synonyms- Need to do study TODO: Conduct survey of CMS standard terminology and user expectations of terminology 5. Update site to a new version of Drupal ACTION: Added UPGRADE.txt with basic instructions ACTION: Ported CivicSpace upgrade instructions to http://drupal.org/ upgrade/tutorial-introduction 6. Compare Drupal files ACTION: Developed project module infrastructure to send messages potentially including module version information and updates. 7. Administer categories with the taxonomy module TODO: Interview users about taxonomy 8. Order and organize content. TODO: Interview users about how to order and organize content TODO: Categorize modules that order and organize content 9. Administer structure of content. TODO: Research capabilities for modifying structure of content 10. Administer Menu's ACTION: Assigned Richard Archer menu maintainer TODO: Card sort default Drupal menu items TODO: Separate administration menu from navigation menu to be more situationally relevant TODO: Remove or make optional user name label for navigation menu 11. Administer site navigation TODO: Research capabilities for global, local, contextual, and situational navigation Links: 1. http://www.surveymonkey.com/DisplaySummary.asp? SID=1425065&U=142506581557