To discuss this wiki page, please go to http://groups.drupal.org/node/135669.
At DrupalCon Chicago, there was a birds-of-a-feather session where we decided to start a helper team for the Rules project. (Cred for this great idea goes to opensanta!)
The objective of the team is to help the Rules maintainers to focus on fixing bugs and develop new functionality, by taking care of Rules issues that otherwise would take up their time.
This page sets up some directives for the team and is approved by the Rules maintainers as official guidelines. I hereby propose that the team could help with the following tasks:
- Finding and answering support issues in the Rules issue queue. <-- this task brings the most help to the Rules project
- Finding and closing issues that are already fixed in the Rules issue queue.
- Finding duplicate issues in the issue queue, writing a comments that explains the issue is a duplicate, link to the main issue, and close the issue by marking it as duplicate.
- Finding real bug issues that need more information, writing a comments clarifying what information is needed, and marking the issues as need more information.
- Finding real bug issues that you can fix yourself, and fix them.
- Finding real bug issues and assign a fitting summary, status, component, priority, category etc.
- Answering questions here in the Rules group.
- Answering Rules related questions in Drupal's general help forum
- Improving Rules documentation.
I would also like to propose that help is, when reasonable, provided by linking to (and when necessary improving) the handbook pages – since I think would give long-term benefits to the Rules project. Having a central place for Rules help is better than having help scattered all over the drupal.org (and other sites).
The people interested in joining this team at DrupalCon was myself, opensanta, k g and Joshua Crowe (for whom I wrote down the username "joshuacrowe" but can't find – are you joe_crowe?)
If you are interested in joining the team, please talk to the maintainers of Rules and I'm sure they will be more than happy to grant you extra privileges in the Rules issue queue.
Note that you don't have to do all the things above! Just helping by linking support issues to pages where there are answers to the question would be a great.
When working on issues you can use the following signature in your posts:
I'm part of the Rules Issue Squad, helping out in the issue queue. You can join, too!