Contributing to Drupal

Benji Fisher

March 3, 2020

Introduction

About me

Yellow Pig

Benji Fisher
@benjifisher on d.o since 2010-01
@benjifisher on GitHub
@benjifisher on GitLab
@benji17fisher on Twitter

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Summary

The issue funnel
Why I review issues
Help wanted! (Some non-code contributions)

The issue funnel

How many?

Drupal core issues: 8.x, 2020-03-03

Status	Number
Active	8174
Needs Work	4582
Needs Review	2857
RTBC	77
Fixed	63
Other	1419

How many?

Drupal core issues: 8.x, 2020-03-03

Pie chart

Who can move?

Drupal core issues: 8.x, 2020-03-03

Status	Number	Mover
Active	8174	Developer
Needs Work	4582	Developer
Needs Review	2857	Reviewer
RTBC	77	Committer
Fixed	63	N/A
Other	1419	???

Why I review issues

Committers

From core/MAINTAINERS.txt

dries
webchick
Gábor Hojtsy
yoroy
effulgentsia
catch

plach
alexpott
larowlan
lauriii
catch
xjm

Reviewers

What does a reviewer have to do?

Test
Code review
Improve the patch

Most important:

Protect the committers’ time

Example: restructure

From Comment #80 on #2991207:

I would like to see the class of helper functions replaced with something more object-oriented: …

(@benjifisher)

Example: protect committers’ time

@xjm (#58): Issue tags: +needs followup
… I think there’s some refactoring that should maybe be done, but that also would be a followup.
@benjifisher (#61): Issue tags: -needs followup
I added #3117157: …
@xjm (#62): Perfect, thanks @benjifisher!

Help wanted!

Drupal core calendar

drupalcorecalendar@association.drupal.org

Weekly meetings

New front-end theme initiative
All things Drupal 9
API-First weekly meeting
Getting Involved Guide refresh
Out of the box initiative meeting
Layout initiative meeting
Admin UI meeting
Meta mentoring meeting
Weekly UX meeting
Migrate meeting

Weekly UX meeting

Zoom (announced on Slack)
Issues tagged “Needs usability review”
IA, wordsmithing, usability
Take notes, comment on issues, open new issues

Migrate meeting

Threaded Slack discussion
Saved as Meeting issues
Issues tagged NR in migration component

From Migrate Meeting 2020-02-27:

Part of the Migrate Meeting from 2020-02-27: “What do we need to talk about? …”

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