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Drupal.org: Update novice documentation and getting involved guide #21

Closed YesCT closed 8 years ago

YesCT commented 9 years ago

Name and Contact of the Project Mentor:

Cathy Theys @YesCT

Name of the Project:

Drupal.org: Update novice documentation and getting involved guide

URL:

Issue #2332789: Reduce Novice Contribution differences and consolidate landing pages, content, blocks

About the Project:

Drupal is an open source content management system and framework with an active welcoming community that values new contributors.

Suitable for beginners?

Yes. OK for people new to open source or new to Drupal.

What are issues/features students may work on?

Description of issue

Update, re-organize, consolidate documentation. May include getting a drupal.org development server, an updating features in git to track changes to pages, blocks, menus, book structure.

Skills (will be learned)

Patience, grammar, organization, UI, drupal.org issue queues, git, features, drupal 7, blocks, book module

carpodaster commented 9 years ago

Thank you, @YesCT, for proposing Drupal as a RGSoC project! :balloon:

I understand you don't track your code / issues with Github – can you link a more extended list of issues students could work on? You mention a major documentation update. It would be nice to see a good focus on programming, rather than mainly working on the documentation.

That being said, I perfectly understand that updating the docs also involves reading and understanding code as well as installing a Drupal app. But maybe you also have a couple of code-related features that a RGSoC team could implement over the course of the summer?

YesCT commented 9 years ago

Drupal is a great open source project with many issues. :) And many issue queues:

But I was just proposing this one scoped issue, not all our issues. :)

Yes. I had some hesitation about suggesting this issue about the Drupal getting involved guide since it is neither Rails, nor Code. But I remembered a tweet (which I cannot find now) that said projects did not need to be. https://twitter.com/YesCT/status/574973124162224128 I had originally listed this idea on the Drupal GSoC list. https://groups.drupal.org/node/455978 But those must be code.

This issue would be more about UI and user interactions than documenting code. It is about organizing our getting involved guide. https://www.drupal.org/node/2332789

I do have several other issues that are more code focused. Some (which were not listed in GSoC): https://www.drupal.org/node/2013222 which might cross with other context help issues like https://www.drupal.org/node/2185511 But they might not be good for beginners.

some that are more contained in their scope:

I work on Drupal 8 core, but I also work on making it easier for people to get involved contributing to Drupal. So the particular issues I have pointed out are about the contributor experience, from a more systemic point of view, dealing with our main tool: drupal.org.

carpodaster commented 9 years ago

Thanks @YesCT for all the additional details :books: :smile: We would really like to see students contributing actual code – I can totally see that happen :+1:

Accepted!

alicetragedy commented 9 years ago

Hi @YesCT, we've got some announcements to make to all project mentors – how can I contact you by email? (alternatively you can drop us a line, our email is on the website in the section "Help Out": railsgirlssummerofcode.org)

thanks in advance!

essymo commented 9 years ago

Hello @YesCT My teammate(@Ressy77) and I would like to work on this project.kindly provide your email so we can easily get intouch

YesCT commented 9 years ago

Sure, reach out to me in irc. I'm YesCT on irc.freenode.net You can find me in #drupal.