Certified to Rock August 2011 Score Update for Drupalcon London

Greg — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 14:12:54 +0000

Hello Drupal fans,

Hot on the heels of the announcement of our groupies program designed to expand Certified to Rock and make it more community driven, we are releasing a new set of scores. We are excited to announce the first new groupies though we are still solidifying the group. Look for an announcement on that in the coming weeks and remember that if you would like to join we are looking for candidates (see the post for details on how to join).

This update is a "resource refresh" meaning that we didn't add any new metrics or change weights or calculation functions in the algorithm. Quick guide: resources are information we scrape from drupal.org. metrics are individual elements of those resources, a specific set of weights and calculations are used to tabulate the final 1-to-11 score in an algorithm.

Congratulations to Peter Wolanin who jumped up two spots to become an 11 and to Jesse Beach who moved the most of any user in this update. Without revealing too many secrets, we can say that those two changes were both caused by some changes to underlying data that happened as part of the migration to use Git on drupal.org. Our next improvement to metrics and algorithms will be tweaked a bit to take better advantage of this information. And of course progress cannot be stopped. Even as we work to adjust for current changes folks are busy planning for even more fine-grained attribution of credit for work. We encourage everyone to use the "--author" attribution mechanism available now if that seems appropriate on an issue and to weigh in on the discussion about how to give even more credit.

The usual caveats apply, of course: scores may go down in the future, while the system includes 82,000 of the best contributors to Drupal it's missing a few folks, don't ask what elements go into determining scores, please suggest ways we can improve the system, Drupalers of the world are rockstars and we are your humble groupies.

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Certified to Rock's Drupal Groupies - August 2011

Greg — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 16:38:29 +0000

With the recent acquisition of GVS by Acquia many people are curious what will happen to Certified to Rock. Acquia has long been thinking about certifications and how to do them well in the Drupal community. But there was a clear sense by those involved in Certified to Rock that CTR would best be served by remaining an independent project. You may have noticed that the site design changed a little bit. We removed all GVS branding from the site and are instituting a program of "Groupies" to support the site.

Our philosophy is strong: the entire Drupal community is rock-stars and the folks working on this site are your groupies. At the same time as providing a means of certification, this site is meant to encourage and promote the best elements of the Drupal community.

So, who are these groupies?

Currently they are:

The oath of the groupies

All groupies agree that they will:

Keep the secret part secret for the rest of your life—the secrecy is a feature, not a bug. If you ask a groupie about the CTR secrets, they will try not to reveal information. If you catch them revealing teh secrets, let us know. That'll earn them bus-bathroom-cleaning duty for a month!
Improve CTR in ways that support and improve the Drupal project.
Once a groupie, always a groupie - even if their interest (and vote, it's a do-ocracy after all) diminishes folks remain CTR groupies forever.

Seeking additional groupies

The current set of groupies has a mix of development, design, certification, and of course, Drupal community experience. We need more of that. In particular, if you want to work on building an embeddable widget, expanding the algorithm to be more accurate, work on scalable scraping and data processing, and you are willing to agree to the oath then let us know.

New groupies will be admitted based on very important scientific process that mixes tea leaf analysis, Turkish coffee readings, and propensity towards getting shit done.