Joining the documentation team

The Drupal documentation team collaboratively maintains or coordinates:

• the handbooks
• the embedded admin/help text within the Drupal modules
• marketing materials
• other document efforts relevant to the Drupal community

Drupal documentation relies on volunteer effort. The current documentation team coordinator is Steven Peck.

To regularly add pages, edit pages, or help in the handbook organization, join the documentation team. Even new members can significantly contribute to the community by suggesting and making improvements to the documentation as they go through processes for the first time.

Steps to join:

• Subscribe to the documentation mailing list, or at least appreciate that you can follow the exchanges using the documentation archives.
• Submit an issue with category: "support request", component: "misc", and status: "active". Introduce yourself, and request to join the documentation team and be assigned the documentation maintainer role.

Quick start guide:

• Please familiarize yourself with the documentation guidelines.
• Realize that the top-level pages for modules, both core and contributed, are special; see Embedded documentation.
• Read Major handbook sections for a general overview of the handbooks and their structure.
• Feel free to ask questions on the mailing list or in an issue report if you're unsure in making updates to the handbook.

What to work on and be aware of:

• Any section that you're actually using on your web site!
• Forum discussions which indicate an update is needed and topics which should be incorporated into documentation. Add a reply in the forum pointing the updated or new documentation handbook page.
• Handbook comments is a list of pages by number of comments. These comments should be incorporated back into the main text, or made into sub-pages, as appropriate.
• Most popular pages should be given some extra care to make sure they are clear and easy to understand.
• Handbook updates is a list of recent changes to the handbook. Scanning this list often will help you keep tabs on what's new, and also help remove any spam.