What is there in

Drupal Community &

their Do's and Don't's

Sivaji J.G,

KnackForge Soft Solutions Pvt. Ltd.

About Speaker

• Started Drupal evangelism as trainee in 2008

• Integrated Drupal and gnokii for accessing bus routes

information via SMS

• GSoC Alumnus 2009

• Co-maintainer of quiz module

• Contributor to Drupal Core and Contrib modules in drupal.org

• Technical reviewer of Drupal books

• Featured Speaker / Trainer of Drupal Chennai workshops

• Technical Director / Drupal project manager at KnackForge

Agenda

• Getting started

• What is there in Drupal project

• Various sites of Drupal project

• 20 Do’s and Dont’s

• Q & A

Getting started

• https://drupal.org/start

• The only official and main site for Drupal

project

• Sign up for an account and complete user

profile

• Download drupal and it’s projects from

https://drupal.org/download

What is there in Drupal.org

Various components of Drupal’s official

website

• Project page

• Issue queue

• Drupal planet

• Forum

• Handbook

• Marketplace

Project page

• Could be a module, theme, or install profile

• Contains link to download project code

• Also provides

o recommended versions,

o release notes,

o Issue tracking,

o commits,

o usage stats,

o similar project,

o link to documentation,

Issue queue

• System for tracking feature request, bugs

reports, documentation, etc.

• Serves for both Drupal core and contrib

project

• Generally referred as Issue

• Users shall participate in discussion,

subscribe to receive updates, confirm bugs,

provide fixes, etc.

Drupal Planet

• Window into the Drupal world

• Planet Drupal aggregates Drupal-related

blog posts

Forum

• A build-in message board for Drupal related

discussion

• Often used as support system by its user

• Very limited in feature

Handbook

Large, hierarchically organized documentation

of Drupal core and contrib projects, written

and maintained by the Drupal community

Marketplace

• A section of official Drupal site, which puts together the

portfolio of all Drupal services providing companies

• Only authentic companies with Good contribution

history can be found in this list

• Companies list can be filtered by Geotag, Vertical, and

nature of service

• Brings potential customers and best service providing

companies a step closer for mutual win

Sites of Drupal Project

• Officialo drupal.org

groups.drupal.org

localize.drupal.org

api.drupal.org

security.drupal.org

association.drupal.org

• Unofficialo drupal.com

o drupalmodules.com

o drupal.stackexchange.com

o drupalshowcase.com

Drupal community site

• http://groups.drupal.org

• Serves for group of like minded peoples to

organize, plan and work on projects.

• Groups are often created by Geographical location,

Software, Interest or similar

• Events, Job posts, Discussions and Wiki pages

shall be created and posted across the groups

• All job posts are listed at

https://groups.drupal.org/jobs

Drupal translation

• https://localize.drupal.org/translate

• Dedicated site for Drupal and its project

related translation

API reference site

• https://api.drupal.org

• Provides complete code reference for Drupal

coreo Global variable, Constants and API function

• User shall post comments on API functionso Handy to redirect / assist if any API has changed

along the major release

• Available for Drupal core 4.x to 8.x

Drupal Security

• https://security.drupal.org/about

• Site used internally by Drupal security team

and module maintainer

• Handles tracking of Security related issues

in Drupal core and Contrib modules

Drupal.com

Site maintained by Drupal project lead Dries

buytaert for Drupal promotion

Drupal Stack Exchange

• Member of Stack Overflow family site

• Unofficial yet, maintained by reputed

community members

• Link http://drupal.stackexchange.com/

• Questions and Answers are rated by fellow

Drupalers around the world

• Helps us to find authentic and genuine

answers related to Drupal

drupalmodules.com

20 Do’s and Dont's of Drupal

Q & A

More slides to come