One of Drupal’s defining features is its open source nature, and the fact that it invites contributions from its vast community. Having been in the Drupal world for a few years now, I found myself wanting to make my own contributions, but unclear on how best to do so. 

The Drupal docs are sparse in some places, overly verbose in others, and they don’t take into account some of the specific tools we at Phase2 rely on, like Docker and Xdebug.

This guide is intended to help remove all of the barriers for getting patches up to Drupal.org.