ARCHIVE: Development and support

As a communication center and project management space, drupal.org includes members who use Drupal as a personal website solution; IT professionals implementing Drupal for clients; and programmers, writers and others contributing to the growth of the Drupal open source project. Members work together to maintain extensive development and support resources on site:

• Support. Users experiencing difficulties installing and configuring Drupal should first consult the administrator's guide, much of which is also available through help in the administration section of every Drupal installation. In cases where documentation fails to provide a solution, search the support forum and drupal-support mailing list archives. If the solution is not available, please write a detailed description of the problem, include the Drupal version number, and post it to either venue. Note: all support is provided on a volunteer basis and is dependent on the good will of community members; please be patient with any support requests.
• Development. The Drupal developer's guide contains information on Drupal architecture, API specifications, guides for theme and module developers, and instructions for contributing your code to the project. The Bug tracker system should be used to submit bugs, ideas for new features, suggestions for improving drupal.org, and contributing ideas for usability and documentation. Those seriously interested in contributing to development should also consider joining the drupal-devel list.

Learn more

See the links below, the other sections of The Drupal Handbook, and the many discussions in the forums for more information.