How To Contribute To Drupal Drupal - DrupalCon Paris

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/translations http://groups.drupal.org/i18n translations@drupal.org http://localize.drupal.org/

Graphics

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Report problems with documentation. http://drupal.org/handbook

Provide usability feedback. http://groups.drupal.org/usability drupal.org Issue queue

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,v retrieving revision 1.1117 diff -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 patch Issue 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 reviews Describe 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 drupal http://drupal.org/node/320 & 321 patch -p0 < patch.patch http://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 Trade Coding standards http://drupal.org/coding-standards Coder module http://drupal.org/project/coder cvs checkout cvs 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 a DO-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

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