Hello Doc peeps.
I was thinking of ways I would like to contribute to Drupal. I used to work in marketing at a computer company doing nofin but making documents. And, I'm also learning Drupal. My big idea for contributing is to ask questions like,
"Why is $node or $form, for example, not listed in the Globals API list of variables which includes $user?"
In my role as newbie, I answer these questions for myself in the IRC and Forum as any new user must. And, I have in my DNA something other new users may not have. When there just isn't a good answer it suggests a change to the documentation may be in order. And, in all good organizations, changes are discussed. meetings, meetings, meetings :p
What do you guys and gals do in the documentation group? I see some fun posts about a conference and some IA stuff.
Chris
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Hi Chris! It'd probably be a
Hi Chris!
It'd probably be a good start for you to read through http://drupal.org/contribute/documentation for basic information about Drupal's docs and how we work on them, as well as some current priorities.
If you need some more direction after that, post back or find jhodgdon or I on IRC http://drupal.org/irc on #drupal-docs
Support as docs resource too...
Hi Chris,
We'd love to have you help out in the Docs team of course! But it also seems like you have an interest in helping with Drupal support. If so, you might want to get in on the discussion about how to make the Support discussions currently happening in IRC and the Forums into a Support Resource (something more like Stack Exchange). This discussion is happening at
http://groups.drupal.org/prairie-initiative
I'd also echo what Ariane said - contact either of us if you'd like more specific guidance/direction on helping with docs. Ariane does more with the online docs at http://drupal.org/documentation, and I work more with the programmer-oriented docs at http://api.drupal.org (and portions of the online docs dealing with module building as well).
-Jennifer
Drupal programmer - http://poplarware.com
Drupal author - http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920034612.do
Drupal contributor - https://www.drupal.org/u/jhodgdon
I think you meant to link to
I think you meant to link to http://groups.drupal.org/support-infrastructure?
As I understand it, the Prairie Initiative is more about the issue queue, while the above group is the one trying to do a Stack Exchange type setup on drupal.org. Of course, the two are closely related.
Wow. Thanks for the response...
I appreciate the links to orient me to the group. I was looking for guidelines and here they were all the time. I'm so happy I posted to the group and introduced myself. I look forward to interfacing with the group or as I like to think of it, beach combing the docs: "Oh, Look, $noob!" haha.
Chris
PS. How many posts before that CAPTCHA goes away?
These pages were helpful for me to understand how I may contribute as I learn D,
Contribute to Documentation Overview,
http://drupal.org/contribute/documentation
Quick Ways,
http://drupal.org/node/302203
Documentation issue reports,
http://drupal.org/node/24565