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Two weeks ago, the Tour module got committed to Drupal 8 core. With that commit a whole new exciting world of step by step tutorials and documentation opened up.

Today we launched an Indiegogo crowdfunding campaign (kind of like Kickstarter) for our automated walkthrough project. The goal of the project is to enable the Drupal community to play, edit and comment on automated walkthroughs. We want to make an open source toolchain that helps you create walkthroughs that are more interactive than video. With the campaign we hope we'll be able to raise the funds to launch the tool for the Drupal community and to make an extensive set of step by step tutorials for a distribution our backers choose and to launch walkhub.net, GitHub for automated tutorials.

In my earlier blog post about a distribution that all Drupal User Groups regardless of language and location could use, I invited you to a presentation and code sprint on DrupalCamp Bratislava. Thank you to those who showed up! If you couldn’t attend, read on for a summary of my presentation and an invitation to the next code sprint on Drupal Sprint Weekend on 9th March.

The Radioactivity module provides a custom field type with a special radioactivity metric that can be assigned to content types. User interaction can maintain high-level radiation or - if interaction is not significant - a cool down mechanism can kick in. It can be used as a ‘hotness’ metric, a regular view counter, and even more. I explain the principles and walk you through the setup of this highly useful module.

I had an earlier blogpost about our work on a design and distribution package that Drupal User Groups all over the world could use. After having the concept refined and the wireframes ready, we went on with creating the design and organizing a code sprint to get things going.

We've built a walkthrough solution that is an extension of the Selenium testing format: For each step in the test we display a title and description inside the browser using Javascript. To create a walkthrough you can record a Selenium test, upload it and add descriptions for the steps.