co-munity 2.33 upgrade and changelog

We have yesterday upgraded the co-munity site to the codebase of Open Atrium 7.x-2.33 (see #49).

This included not only a code upgrade, but also a massive clean-up: the development we made last year, often under pressure of requirements and with our very little resources, did not always follow good Drupal development practices and ended up cluttering our system. Although this clean-up and improvement of the development environment is not finished, we have made significant progresses.

Some of the main changes since our last update:

• a new section type "Files" is now available, providing a folders-based file management widget with multiple file upload capabilities
• a new space blueprint "Arbeitsgruppe" is available for testing for German-language users. It has a default discussion, documents, calendar, etherpad and drive
• the home page has been set to the Sitemap by default. #68
• all "Teams" have now by default an own etherpad on their team page, allowing for seamless realtime collaboration on taking notes or writing texts. Please note that our etherpad integration does not yet provide access control and can be accessed by anyone knowing the direct link to it - don't use them to store sensitive information. #37
• a new role "Translators" and a translation interface have been added to help localize the platform into several languages. Improvements on the German version have been made. #59
• new e-mail notification when users are added to a space (community). #61
• basic online payment facility has been implemented and can be used for specific events on demand. #9
• major performance improvements at the server infrastructure level, with the migration to a new Ecobytes server and solving an I/O virtualization bottleneck

We will work on fine-tuning this update and solving some issues (especially style related) that we already found. More information on the full upgrade procedure is found on our taiga.io board, where you can also always follow and (on request) contribute to the development or with testing.

Want to support the development of co-munity with some of your time? We have as much need for technical contributors, as for non-technical users. Visit the co-munity space and contribute feedback from your user experience, help to find or close bugs, help with translation, improve the site documentation with information on features and use cases, etc.

If you like to support our work otherwise, you can help us pay the servers and buy some coffee by offering a donation to Ecobytes (Euro or Bitcoin).