I'd like to get some of you great people to give a panel discussion on best practices. Here's a proposal - edit it! Who would be willing to lead it? Who has something to offer?
Session Proposal: Best practices in Contrib development and support
Contributed modules and themes are fundamental to the Drupal experience, but the quality varies oh, so widely.
How can we improve our development process, keep modules maintained, help maintainers, and somehow harness the explosion of modules.
This forum will cover:
- What's expected of a module maintainer
- How to keep the modules you maintain from overwhelming you
- How to get help from others
- Finding maintainers, abandoning projects, dealing with abandoned projects
- Best practices in CVS, including when to branch, and how to maintain branches
- Best practices in patch issue workflow
- Best practices in the issue queue: How to enlist the community, deal with support, and deal with newbies.
- Avoiding duplication in contributed projects
This will be an open discussion of how we can continue the great tradition of contributions, while improving the quality and user experience. Your thoughts are welcome.
Who's on board for presenting?
- Dave Reid
- Derek Wright (dww)
- Greg Knaddison (greggles)
- Jennifer Hodgdon (jhodgdon)
- Randy Fay (rfay) will be happy to help coordinate, organize, etc.
The session is a go for Drupalcon SF!
http://sf2010.drupal.org/node/7813
Wednesday, 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
304 Phase2 Technology