[documentation] Proposal for a "Contributing to Drupal" handbook section

[Geoff Butterfield]

I think this needs to be clearer.  There are so many potential ways  
(and motivations)  to interact with the community that "talk" seems  
limited.

For reference:


"Talk With The Community" (originally titled "Communication" -- is
there a better title for this?) links to a page describing the various
ways to communicate within the Drupal community -- including, but not
limited to: Forums, IRC, mailing lists, the issue queue, Pro Services
listings, and a list of important external sites (e.g.
groups.drupal.org, the Dojo).


Perhaps something more active, like "Getting Involved."

Geoff



On Mar 8, 2008, at 12:18 PM, dave at digitalraindrop.com wrote:

> "Talk to the community" should, perhaps, change to "Talk to us".  
> It's more
> personal, it conveys the sense of community much better than the word
> "community", and it also suggests "contact us" ...which is a much  
> richer
> model in the open source world..
>
>  Dave.
>
>
>> Mike Booth skrev:
>>> We propose that there be a new handbook section, titled  
>>> "Contributing
>>> to Drupal", with the following top-level subsections:
>>>    Get an Account
>>>    Talk With The Community
>>>    Use the Issue Queue
>>>
>>>    Report a Problem
>>>    Suggest Features
>>>
>>>    Write Documentation
>>>    Test New Features
>>>
>>>    Contribute Themes
>>>    Contribute Code
>>>
>>> (These titles are tentative and may not be quite what we want. Feel
>>> free to suggest more alternatives and to point out what we missed.)
>>
>> Missed:
>>   Contribute Translations
>>   Contribute Install(ation) profiles
>> The latter might fall under "code", but given how Dries' continuously
>> pacing how we need more of these, it might be good to pull them all  
>> the
>> way to the front. ;)
>>
>>> "Talk With The Community" (originally titled "Communication" -- is
>>> there a better title for this?) [...]
>>
>> "Talk with the community" is definitely an improvement to
>> "communication". :) But, perhaps "interact with the community"?
>>
>> "Contribute Translations" would need to change very soon. :) Right  
>> now,
>> it should deal with how to report bad translations, how to commit
>> translations to CVS, how to begin a new translation project, and  
>> general
>> project management stuff as in the theme and module sections. Soon,  
>> it
>> should tell how to get permissions to use the Drupal.org  
>> l10n_server as
>> well as a tutorial in how to use it. What exactly should go into the
>> handbook probably depends on how exactly l10n_server will work on and
>> with Drupal/.org.
>>
>> --
>> Frederik 'Freso' S. Olesen <http://freso.dk/>
>>
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