[development] A first suggestion

[David Geilhufe]

Let me shout out some strong support for Dries's idea. I've been in the community for a year and seldom say anything on the dev list since I'm a business guy. BUT,

All the statistics are great and IMHO no "regular" person is likely to find them or find them useful. The basic English in Dries' proposed block is almost more important than the data itself.

I think Drupal is a fantastic community of developers. We need to create a fantastic community of site administrators and community of users. 

Never one to not put my money where my mouth is, I'm happy to help with things like doing the language for the block (I'm not a coder, so my potential contribution is limited). If you are coding it, feel free to drop me an email and I'll help on the language.

David Geilhufe
CivicSpace


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Message: 4
Date: Sat, 19 Aug 2006 15:46:01 +0200
From: Dries Buytaert <dries.buytaert at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [development] A first suggestion
To: development at drupal.org
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On 19 Aug 2006, at 13:37, Gerhard Killesreiter wrote:

> > I sometimes get the impression that people don't know that
> > http://drupal.org/project/issues/statistics exists...
> >
> > It should be easy to add an individual stats page for each project.
>   

Sure but ... the idea is to:

  1. Take it a bit further by extending the amount of data we collect  
(eg. downloads).

  2. To make it more visible by showing a summary on the main project  
page.

  3. To make it more accessible to non-developers by avoiding  
technical lingo.

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