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Core office hours start this week

Drupal core needs more eyes and more contributors to decrease the very high amount of unresolved issues.

We're going to hold the first core "office hours" this week in #drupal-contribute on freenode:

  • Tuesday, 04:00 UTC
  • Wednesday, 16:00 UTC

Depending on how this goes, we may continue these slots weekly (with a break for DrupalCon).

Why office hours?

There are currently a large number of unresolved issues in the core queue, and we want to get more organised dealing with the backlog, and encourage new people to help out.

Current numbers:

How will office hours help?

If you've been wanting to get involved in Drupal core development, but aren't sure where to start, coming to the office hours. You will find experienced contributors who will help you find something to work on.

If you have patches or bug reports against Drupal core, and want to get your patch reviewed or figure out where to take the issue next, this should be a good time of the week to trade reviews on IRC.

Things we will do

Office hours are for both experienced contributors and developers as well as newcomers, expect some of the following:

  • Triaging the core queue - understanding status, priority of issues, closing duplicates etc.
  • Co-writing issue summaries.
  • Co-writing change notifications for needs work issues tagged with "Needs change notification".
  • Writing SimpleTests for bug reports that don't have them.
  • Swapping patch reviews.

New contributors should already be prepared to do the following:

  • Have a local environment to review and test core patches.
  • Get familiar with the documentation at http://drupal.org/patch

Mentors/co-ordinators possibly available

We'll try to make sure at least one person is online during each slot.

catch
sun
linclark
Dave Reid
marcingy
Cameron Eagans (cweagans)
xjm
beejeebus

See you there!

See the original proposal for more discussion, and to volunteer for helping out with office hours on a regular basis.