What if the Issue Queue informed you that the code you're working on is also being touched by someone else? (Yay!)
[EDIT: This idea is temporarily code-named D.I.A.S., the Duplicate Issue Alert System]
Read moreContent for video on 'How to use the issue queue to contribute'. [wiki - please edit]
Following up on this the issue for the creation of this Video AND Doc (http://drupal.org/node/995326)
Why don't we pool ideas here and pull together an outline? Unless someone wants to dive in and just present it....
NOTE: We'll use this doc as a wiki to collaborate on content development and then pull this back to the issue when we have it together.
There are a number of resources below regarding the issue queue.
It sounds like there are several tasks associated with this issue:
Potential Tasks
- Review existing documentation (see sources below)
Improving the usability of the Issue Queue
There has been a lot of informal talk about Drupal’s issue queue. For designers and non-technical people, it can be a confusing place. And while there has also been some talk about creating a separate place to discuss design-related issues (for example), the simple fact is: the issue queue is where developers get informed about problems and requests and that’s the place where they organize the work that they do. If non-developers want to improve the code, they have to use the issue queue.
Read moreGetting data offline
Following a request on the dev list, an issue and first-version code has been created to return a list of current issues as a single set of data, to be downloaded and used offline.
It includes, in a single JSON object:
- the issues, selected by project, priorities, categories, and states
- the followups/comments
- the attached files
See the issue for more detail and to submit revisions.
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