Susan Stewart on Becoming Drupal Contributors

Susan Stewart (aka HedgeMage) talks about some ways to help get involved with contributing to the Drupal project and participating within the Drupal community. She gives an overview of the Drupal issue queue, and a brief description of all of the different issue statuses. She also talks about some of the differences between the different Drupal IRC channels and some of the cultural standards of the community.

Susan also mentions some important issue queue tags for beginners such as the Novice tag, Accessibility tag, or D7UX usability tag.

Also briefly mentioned is Angela Byron's Core Development Summit presentation on an effort for making it easier for beginners to be able to test patches. More details on this infrastructure effort can be found at the PIFR demo.