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How to Contribute to Drupal

(And become a Drupal ninja!)

Stand up

Can you name this character?

Raphael(of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles)

Stand up

(again)

Do you contribute to Drupal?

Follow along at

http://tinyurl.com/contribute-drupal

Ways that anyone can contribute...

Advocacy

Get involved with your local Drupal community

on groups.drupal.org

Translations

http://drupal.org/contribute/translationshttp://groups.drupal.org/i18ntranslations@drupal.orghttp://localize.drupal.org/

Graphics

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Report problems with documentation.

http://drupal.org/handbook

Provide usability feedback.

http://groups.drupal.org/usabilitydrupal.org Issue queue

E.g.

Help out with user support.

Improve documentation

How to help with documentation

Improve / fix text

Create new pages

Roll-in comments

Issue queue house-cleaning.

File feature requests.

File bug reports.

Bad bug reports

“It’s broke.”

“OMG!1! READ THIS!1!”

“You suck.”

"Make it work"

Good bug reports

Search first.

What did you do?

What did you expect to happen?

What happened instead?

Search first!

Testing and reviewing patches.

What is a “patch?”Index: modules/node/node.module===================================================================RCS file: /cvs/drupal/drupal/modules/node/node.module,vretrieving revision 1.1117diff -u -p -r1.1117 node.module--- modules/node/node.module 31 Aug 2009 17:06:09 -0000 1.1117+++ modules/node/node.module 2 Sep 2009 08:40:24 -0000@@ -1898,7 +1898,7 @@ function node_page_default() { else { drupal_set_title(t('Welcome to @site-name', array('@site-name' => variable_get('site_name', 'Drupal'))), PASS_THROUGH); - $default_message = '<p>' . t('No page content has been created yet.') . '</p>';+ $default_message = '<p>' . t('No front page content has been created yet.') . '</p>'; $default_links = array(); if (_node_add_access()) {

Finding a patchIssue queues

Novice tag; http://drupal.org/patch/novice

Play patch bingo

Bad patch reviews

“+1”

“I haven’t read the issue, but...”

“I haven’t tested the patch, but...”

Good patch reviewsDescribe what you did.

Describe your results.

Give your opinion about what this means, based on experience, background, etc.

Be as nit-picky as possible (within reason ;)).

Tools of the trade

cvs checkout drupalhttp://drupal.org/node/320 & 321

patch -p0 < patch.patchhttp://drupal.org/patch

Demo

Let’s test a patch!

Help with developer documentation.

Contribute (to) modules & themes

Become a code contributor

Search for existing similar code.

Apply for a CVS account.

Check-in your code.

Create a project.

Maintain your issue queue. ;)

Create patches.

Tools of the TradeCoding standards http://drupal.org/coding-standardsCoder module http://drupal.org/project/coder

cvs checkoutcvs diff -up > my.patch

Thick skin ;)

Demo: Let’s create a patch!

Mentor new developers.

Get involved with a specialist group on groups.drupal.org

Organize development efforts.

Wow, this sounds like an awful lot of work.

Why should I bother?

Drupal is aDO-ocracy

Karma is the official currency.

Saves time and money.

Gets you more business and attracts

better people.http://buytaert.net/contributing-back-to-drupal

More eyes & reviews on your code

Makes you a better programmer.

Gives you direct input into the direction of

project.

Stand up

Do you know a way you can contribute to Drupal?

(not money)

Useful links

These slides http://tinyurl.com/contribute-drupal

How to contribute: http://drupal.org/contribute

User groups: http://groups.drupal.org

Creating patches: http://drupal.org/patch/create

Finding patches: http://drupal.org/patch

Novice issues: http://tinyurl.com/drupalnovice

Contribute to documentation: http://drupal.org/contribute/documentation

Questions?