Quick information for new contributors

This section contains short guides aimed at helping new contributors complete their first tasks.

You can find a task on the Contributor Guide Find a Task page. You can also start on the Contributor Guide Skills listing page -- search for a skill that you would like to contribute, and the skill page will show you tasks that use the skill.

Getting started contributing

Suggestions for how to locate something to do to contribute to the Drupal project

Find an event to attend

Links to help you find a DrupalCon, DrupalCamp, meetup, or contribution event

Life cycle of an issue

Description of the process of making a change in the Drupal project using an issue

Finding an issue to work on

Tips for locating an issue that you can contribute to fixing

Find the issues for a project

Locate the list of open issues for a module, theme, or distribution hosted on drupal.org, or the core software

Creating or updating an issue report

Descriptions of the fields in an issue report and what they should contain

Figuring out what Drupal core code to patch

Tips for how to figure out what code you need to edit to fix various types of issues in Drupal core

Get help completing your contributor task

Connect with mentors and other experienced contributors to complete a contributor task

Common Prerequisites for Contributors

List of prerequisites that are commonly needed in order to contribute to the Drupal project, and how to set them up

Setting up an environment to test Drupal patches and merge requests

How to set up either remote testing or a local development environment for contributing to Drupal projects

Tips for contributing code to Drupal Core

Suggestions about how to get started contributing code to the Drupal core project

Tips for providing support

Suggestions for how to provide effective support to other users

Tips for contributing to documentation

Frequently asked questions about contributing to documentation

Convincing Senior Management to Give Back to Drupal

Convince your organization's senior management to support the Drupal project by giving back to the community

Guide maintainers

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