[documentation] Missing Help Pages for Drupal 6 beta

Steven Peck sepeck at gmail.com
Mon Sep 24 17:07:39 UTC 2007


I have the original issues listed on many of the changes here.
http://www.blkmtn.org/drupal6-changelog

I can send actual links later but don't have time right now.

Steven Peck

On 9/24/07, add1sun <drupal at rocktreesky.com> wrote:
> Hey there folks we have some critical Documentation bugs for the
> Drupal 6 release.  Now that Beta 1 is out we are trying to get Beta 2
> ready to go.  We need to have internal Help text for all of the core
> modules to release.  There are four that still need help:
>
> Translation - http://drupal.org/node/172584
> Update Status - http://drupal.org/node/172593
> Syslog - http://drupal.org/node/172592
> PHP Filter - http://drupal.org/node/172583
>
> This is really critical for getting Drupal 6 out the door and you
> will get your name on a patch in core!  How can you help?
>
> - Download Drupal HEAD (CVS checkout or HEAD tarball)
> - Play with these modules.  How do you configure them?  What do they do?
> - Write up a Help page (use admin/help/aggregator as an example -
> note you need to turn on aggregator module to view the help)
>
> If you are comfortable writing a patch, then you need to add the new
> Help page text to the _help hook, which should be at the top of
> the .module file for that module (again you can look at
> aggregator.module if you need a guide.)
>
> If you aren't comfortable with patches you can either a) learn! or b)
> post your proposed text to the appropriate issue and I or someone
> else will roll a patch for it.  To learn about patches you can start
> with the handbook page http://drupal.org/patch/create and then feel
> free to ask follow up questions in IRC or back to this docs list and
> we'll get folks sorted out.  I am often on IRC with the nick add1sun
> so feel free to ping me for patch help.
>
> Also, we need to have handbook pages for these modules created as
> well under the Core Modules section (http://drupal.org/handbook/
> modules) so go ahead and create that page as well.  Keep in mind we
> can always tweak it - it doesn't have to be perfect.  It is easier
> for many people to edit and refine something that exists than to
> create the original so if you can et us started we are 90% of the way
> there.
>
> Thanks!
> Addi (add1sun)
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