Contributing to the Drupal Community

A quick-start guide to participating in the community with a history, including guiding principles and debates within the community. All skill levels of contributors and contributions are described and encouraged in the book.

• • Programmers

    • how to write a module, develop a theme, contribute to core

  • Usability

    • where the discussion happens and how to push for usability improvements

  • Designers

    • designers make the CMS look nice but also useful

  • Documentation

    • how can writers with any technical skill contribute? How does documentation get produced in a largely volunteer effort? http://writingopensource.com/

  • General

    • how to submit a bug/security notice/feature request using the issue queue

    • when a forum post is appropriate

    • leadership and volunteerism in open source

    • how to help promote Drupal