What we'll cover

• How can I contribute?
• Collaboration with the community
• Demo
  • Development tools
  • Code contribution
  • Issue triage and reviewing
• Documentation
• Reviewing

Types of contribution

• Report a bug
• Code contributions
• Provide reviews in issues or blog posts
• Design and usability
• Work on documentation
• Issue queue moderation
• Project application reviews
• Events sponsoring
• Local user group organisation
• ...

Code contribution

• Improve existing projects and Drupal core with patches*
• Contribute to new projects
• Collaboration rather than competition

* Patch - A small piece of code inserted into a program to improve its functioning or to correct a fault (Oxford dictionary)

Community collaboration

• Issue queues per project
• Slack channel drupal.slack.com
• Drupal mailing List
• groups.drupal.org
• Meet-ups, user groups, camps, cons, ...

drupical.com

Demo

• Development setup and tools
  • Apache/MySQL/PHP + Xdebug
  • PHPStorm, Drupal plugins
  • PHPCS, Coder
  • Terminal
  • Drush / Drupal Console
  • Git
  • Composer

Demo

• Code contribution
  • Pick an issue
  • Fix it
  • Create a patch
  • Upload a patch
  • Mark it as "Needs review"

Reviewing patches

• The process
  1. Read the summary and comments
  2. Reproduce the problem
  3. Review the code (Dreditor extension)
  4. Test the patch
  5. Update the issue
• More: drupal.org/patch/review

Documentation

• Anyone can contribute (no coding skills needed)
• Can be contributed on drupal.org
• Each module can have its own documentation

Where to start?

• Novice guide
  → drupal.org/novice
• #drupalmountaincamp issues → drupal.org/project/issues/search?&issue_tags=drupalmountaincamp
• Giveaways for best contributors (talk to organizers)

Sprint topics

• Sign-up at bit.ly/DMC_Contribution
• First-time sprinting
• D8 core / D9 preparation 
• Drupal admin UI
• Paragraphs
• Entity Browser & Dropzone JS
• Swiss Drupal marketing / drupal.ch
• Accessibility

Thank you! Questions?

slides.com/mbovan/mountaincamp