Getting Involved: Issue queue pages need work

Should also add in here how to help keep the queues clean.

main existing content on the issue queue: http://drupal.org/node/317

That patch review kinds of stuff are over in the Testing section: http://drupal.org/node/240216

This also needs an actual overview/conceptual doc written that guides newbies into the concept of it all.

Changed the component to reflect the new component categorization. See http://drupal.org/node/301443
-nielsbom

As of #4 from @add1sun
to thread Addition of section with "Issue report Component" - descriptions

Every ones is invited to propose suggestions, drafts etc.
Please post here your contributions.

Thanks

This is really about moving the http://drupal.org/node/317 section into the new book with the landing page getting a rewrite to make it more introductory and general. The sub pages can take on the details (and need to be consolidated/reorganized). We will need a few more subpages, notably one on how to search the issue queue. The landing page should make note of queues that are "weird", like docs and point to pages that specifically explain them. Docs will definitely have one. If there are others, they may not and will probably need a page added.

So currently:
1. Move http://drupal.org/node/317
2. Rewrite the main page
3. Add a new page on searching the queues
4. Reorganize/rewrite/consolidate the existing subpages

Also, link to a video on the issue queue: http://drupal.org/node/273658

OK, this section is started. I did an initial pass at reorganizing the subpages and added a stub for the search page. Still to do:

1. Rewrite landing page: http://drupal.org/node/317
2. Write search page: http://drupal.org/node/314182
3. Review and refine the other subpages

changing title for ongoing work

FYI: The issues queue search and 'drop down menu' system is in need of some UI work. It's hard even to explain to people how to filter issues - so what I'm writing here isn't helpful for documentation at all... but anyone working on this documentation will run into some weird behavior of the navigation. Maybe take notes and add
to the issue for this! (there are probably others)

Also , I've updated the landing page "stub outline" to include the stuff from #314686: Getting Involved: Cleaning up issue queues

I added an introductory section for issues queues newbies.
I don't know how 'little' we can get away with on the issue queue landing page.
http://drupal.org/node/317

It was unavoidable, I touched on just locating a specific issue queue and filtering the list for that queue... though I think there needs to be more detailed search advice on that separate page. If I can get a minute this weekend, I'd be happy to make a little 'how to search' video as recommended here:
http://drupal.org/node/314182

Cross Referencing -->
#446744: New Approach/SiteMap for Contribute Code

Can anyone give a brief overview of the state of affairs on this one before I spend a bunch of time trying to sort out what's done and not? Would be mucho appreciated!

It looks like http://drupal.org/node/317 and its subpages have had a lot of work since this was last active. I'm going to mark this fixed, if anyone objects, please reopen!