Talking Drupal #490 - Drupal Contrib First

Today we are talking about Drupal Contribution, how you can approach it within your company, and why a Contrib First approach is important with guest Steve Wirt. We’ll also cover Config Importer & Tools as our module of the week.

For show notes visit:
https://www.talkingDrupal.com/490

Topics

• What is contrib first
• How does this help the Drupal community
• Why is it a good idea for companies
• How do you explain this to non dev folks like CEOs or Presidents
• What do you say if a client does not buy in
• How do you monitor and build confidence in other developers
• How can someone get started
• Any tools or tips for someone trying to bootstrap this

Resources

• MOTW
  • https://www.drupal.org/project/confi
  • https://www.drupal.org/project/upgrade_tool
• Civic Actions Practice Tools - Contrib First
• Civic Actions Engineering Practice Area - Drupal Contrib First Module Development
• Codit menu tools
• Alt text validation - currently being built as Contrib First
• Bill requiring US agencies to share custom source code with each other becomes law
• Link shortners
  • http://dgo.re/ or https://dgo.to/ link shorteners for d.o
• Drupal Contrib Development
• Contribution to a module

Guests

Steve Wirt - civicactions.com swirt

Hosts

Nic Laflin - nLighteneddevelopment.com nicxvan
John Picozzi - epam.com johnpicozzi
Avi Schwab - froboy.org froboy

MOTW

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