Drupal Contributions - A Pragmatic Approach to the Issue Queue

Come for the code, stay for the community.

Drupal thrives on community contributions in the form of patches and documentation to both contributed modules and core. This helps the project move forward and stay relevant.

Not everyone who works on open source projects is a senior developer. Smaller tasks help people increase confidence and gain experience, which, in turn, leads to more contributions. Code is very important, but so are all the other parts. Contributing back to Drupal helps folks to become better developers. A more polished Drupal leads to a better overall experience.

But how does one become a contributor? Together we’ll discuss what we can do as a community to help foster new contributors and keep the ones we already have.

There will also be a lightning round demonstrating the process of creating an issue, writing a patch, uploading the fix to Drupal.org, and then reviewing the patch for RTBC (reviewed and tested by the community). We'll even take a look at the upcoming GitLab contribution process because specific tools and processes change over time.

When: Thursday, December 13, 2018
Where: Mission Center Building, UCSF Room MCB 126
1855 Folsom St., San Francisco, CA, 94103, USA
The building entrance is on a parking lot which is entered from 15th Street or Harrison

Agenda
5:30 pm to 6:00 pm Delicious food sponsored by... (pls contact us to be a food sponsor!)

6:00 pm to 6:15 pm “Your Dose of Drupal Dialogue”
— Discussion on what’s in Drupal news
— Who is hiring in the SF Bay Area? Who needs to hire?

6:15 pm to 7:15 SFDUG Drupal Talk - "Drupal Contributions - A Pragmatic Approach to the Issue Queue" by AmyJune Hineline

7:15 - 7:30 pm: wrap up, more hanging out and chatting up Drupal

7:30 pm Head to the local watering hole, Wooden Nickel at 1900 Folsom St.

We will post a Zoom link the day of to join remotely, just be sure to join us on slack to get the link: http://sfdrupal.herokuapp.com