Drupal Contributor Roles

Explorer

You are familiar with Drupal and ready to start exploring Drupal 8.

Install Drupal 8

You can install locally or use simplytest.me.

Explore Drupal 8

• Create a Basic page and two Articles.
• Create a view for your Articles.
• Add a page to the main menu.
• Create a new taxonomy vocabulary and add terms.
• Add the vocabulary as a new field on your Article content type.
• Add a Custom block and display in sidebar.

Bonus Tasks

• Set up a new content type.
• Add content.
• Copy the site. Make a configuration change. Export the configuration. Import it into the other site.
• Translate a piece of content you created into another language.
• If you installed locally, use Drush to list your available modules.

Next: Community Contributor

Community Contributor

You are an Explorer and ready to give back to Drupal 8.

Get Ready To Sprint

• Register your drupal.org user account.
• Set up an IRC client.
• Join in the #drupal channels.

Continue At Home

• Get involved in drupal.org/core-office-hours.
• Read through an issue and update the issue summary. (See “Needs issue summary update”)

Bonus Tasks

• Mentor by helping someone explore Drupal 8 or become a contributor.
• Ask Druplicon in IRC, “needs tags?” Read more about them on the link provided.
• Become a member of the Drupal Association.

Next: Issue Mover

Issue Mover

Your are a Community Contributor and ready to start moving Drupal 8 issues forward.

Get Ready To Sprint

• Install Drupal 8 locally or use simplytest.me.
• Install Dreditor.
• Figure out how to take screenshots on your OS.

Sprint

• Find a Needs issue summary update issue and if it is missing steps to reproduce, write them. Bonus points if you include relevant screenshots.
• Triage an issue without any replies.
• Test an issue tagged Needs manual testing.
• Find a Novice issue with a task you can perform, do it, and have someone check your post.

Bonus Tasks

• Record a screencast of your steps and upload to the issue.
• If you are not on Windows, use browser stack or a Virtual Box with Internet Explorer to take screenshots of Needs manual testing or Needs screenshot issues.

Next: Mentor or Developer

Developer

You are an Issue Mover and ready to dig into some Drupal 8 code.

Get Ready To Sprint

• Install a local *AMP stack (for example: Dev Desktop).
• Get an IDE such as PHPStorm or Sublime Text.
• Set up git locally.
• Git clone Drupal 8 and install locally.
• Run a simpletest locally.
• Run phpunit tests locally.

Sprint

• Find a Needs reroll issue and re-roll a patch that no longer applies.
• Find a Needs tests issue and write a unit test.
• On a problem you have encountered, upload a partially working patch (partially done tests count).

Bonus Tasks

• Read up on Drupal coding standards.
• Install Drush, use it to install Drupal and install a core module.
• Find a module to upgrade to Drupal 8, and upload a patch that does one of the Drupal 8 changes.

Next: Mentor

Mentor

You are an Issue Mover or Developer and are ready to help others learn to contribute too.

Get Ready To Sprint

• Do some issue queue gardening.
• Review Novice and Meta issues so you have tasks to match new contributors with.

On Sprint Day

• Wear comfortable shoes and a smile.
• Drink plenty of water.
• Ask and answer questions in public, and expose your reasoning.
• Ask for help when you need it.
• Review.

Continue At Home

Review, review, review. Sprinters need feedback!

Bonus Tasks

• Help people get a local development environment set up.
• Organize a sprint in your community.
• Attend IRC core office hours.