Here are some links related to the Feb 9 Dojo by Jennifer Hodgdon on Contributing to Drupal via the Issue Queues (see http://groups.drupal.org/node/52023 for schedule information)
• Introduction to Issue Queue
DOJO WEBINAR TODAY- FEB 9: 1:30 ET - Click here to register/join
How Tos on Issues:
- http://drupal.org/node/317 - Section in "Getting Involved" about the issue queue
- http://drupal.org/node/101494 - How to report a security issue
- http://drupal.org/node/24565 - Documentation project issue reports page
- http://drupal.org/patch - Section in “Getting Involved” on patching
Projects to use:
- http://drupal.org/project/webmasters - Webmasters project (reporting spam and other bad behavior)
- http://drupal.org/project/infrastructure - d.o infrastructure project (software/hardware on *.d.o sites)
- http://drupal.org/project/documentation - on-line documentation on d.o
- http://drupal.org/project/drupal - Drupal core software project including doc on api.d.o
For lists of issues you can help with broken down by category (and for docs team members you can direct any questions to), see Docs topic sub-groups.
Another way to help out Drupal contributed projects is to look for peer review requests in the issue queue.