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