Mark Boulton Design was selected to lead the drupal.org redesign efforts almost two years. While they went on dutifully with the process listening to feedback from the community and designing a modern home for all things Drupal(.org), and the deliverables were in on time, the actual implementation (which was on the drupal.org community in general) lagged behind a bit. I've personally been to multiple sprints where we established the base for the redesign infrastructure on many levels. The big problems are not around applying a different theme to the drupal.org site but reworking the structure and some sections for the redesign. The latest sprint which I was unfortunately unable to attend was in San Francisco, where in a surprising turn of events, it was set that drupal.org subsites should push forward with implementing the new theme and concepts even ahead of drupal.org. After all, we do not have big rearchitecture plans for these sites, so we can sidestep the biggest tasks which keep drupal.org behind. So came http://association.drupal.org/ up in the new theme shortly after. This got me inspired to get deep down into applying the theme to http://localize.drupal.org/ as well.

To see how far we are, I've put the new theme under localize.drupal.org for a test drive a few weeks ago, and it was not looking nice. Turned out that some developments pushed it away from the underlying navigation-sharing infrastructure we built earlier. So I worked on getting those advantages back and making all the shell of the theme work. Then came putting in the localization server pieces to the right places. This mostly involved making some obscure custom page elements actual blocks to put them into the right place with the new theme. I believe this helped push both the theme and the underlying navigation-sharing goodness to get into a better shape for use on other subsites in the hopefully not too far future.

Finally today was the day to finish it all up, fixing some odd issues and switch over to the new theme for your enjoyment. With this, we join the Drupal Association site in adapting the new theme and hope to provide you with an increasingly integrated experience as other subsites adopt the same theme and shared navigation structure.

Drupal.org redesign, here we come!

(Note that anonymous visitors might get half-baked cached pages while the caches are refilled with all the new pages. Let us know if/when you find issues with the new theme via the usual means.)