This year DrupalGov is virtual. The PreviousNext team is sponsoring and helping to run the DrupalGov 2020 Sprint Day on Wednesday 4 November, and there are a few things you can do now to hit the ground running on the day.

by
kim.pepper
/ 26 October 2020

This year the DrupalGov sprint will be virtual

We’ll start the day with a brief Zoom meeting to introduce the organisers, and outline how the day will run.

We’ll use #australia-nz Drupal Slack as the main communication channel, with ad hoc Zoom or Meet video calls for those who want to dive deeper into a topic.

For the majority of the day, we’ll be using Slack threads to keep track of sprint topics and reduce the noise in the main channel.

Join us on Slack

If you haven’t already done so, now is a great time to sign up and join the Australian / New Zealand Drupal community in Slack. Instructions for how to join are here: https://www.drupal.org/slack

Let us know about your experience

Please fill in the following survey to let us know about your experience with Drupal, and the areas you’re interested in Sprinting on. This will help us better prepare for the day.

https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/2DPWDPL

How to contribute

Sprint day is not just for developers! Contribution comes in many forms. If you’re interested in the different ways you can contribute to this amazing project, see the list of contributor tasks: https://www.drupal.org/contributor-tasks

Tagging issues to work on

If you want to see what might be an interesting issue to work on, head over to the Drupal.org Issue Queue and look for issues tagged with 'DrupalGov 2020'. These are issues that others have tagged.

You can also tag an issue yourself to be added to the list.

Set Up a Development Environment

There is more than one way to shear a sheep, and there is also more than one way to set up a local development environment for working on Drupal.

If you don't already have a local development environment setup, we recommend using Docker Compose for local development - follow the instructions for installing Docker Compose on OSX, Windows and Linux.

Once you've setup Docker compose, you need to setup a folder containing your docker-compose.yml and a clone of Drupal core. The instructions for that vary depending on your operating system, we have instructions below for OSX, Windows and Linux, although please note the Windows version is untested.

Mac OSX

• Install Docker for Mac

mkdir -p ~/dev/drupal
cd ~/dev/drupal
wget https://gist.githubusercontent.com/larowlan/9ba2c569fd52e8ac12aee962cc9319c9/raw/e69795e7219c9c73eb8d8d171c31277eeb5bcbaa/docker-compose.yml
git clone --branch 8.9.x https://git.drupalcode.org/project/drupal.git app
docker-compose up -d
docker-compose run -w /data/app app composer install

Windows

• Install Docker for Windows
• Create a directory somewhere on your computer
• Save this file to this folder
• If you don't have git, download and install it
• Open the terminal and cd to the folder you created above

git clone --branch 8.9.x https://git.drupalcode.org/project/drupal.git app
docker-compose up -d
docker-compose run -w /data/app app composer install

Linux

• Install Docker and docker-compose for your flavour of Linux distro

<em class="code">mkdir -p ~/dev/drupal # or wherever you want to put the foldercd ~/dev/drupalwget </em>https://gist.githubusercontent.com/larowlan/63a0f6efacee71b483af3a2184178dd0/raw/248dff13557efa533c0ca297d39c87cd3eb348fe/docker-compose.yml<em class="code">git clone --branch 8.9.x https://git.drupalcode.org/project/drupal.git appdocker-compose up -d</em>docker-compose exec app /bin/bash -c "cd /data/app && composer install"

If you have any issues, join us on Drupal slack in the #australia-nz channel beforehand and we'll be happy to answer any questions you might have.

Install dreditor browser extension

Dreditor is a browser extension that makes it easier to review patches on Drupal.org. Its a must for anyone contributing to Drupal.

There are versions for Firefox and Chrome.

Find Issues to Work On

If you want to see what might be an interesting issue to work on, head over to the Drupal.org Issue Queue and look for issues tagged with 'DrupalGov 2020'. These are issues that others have tagged.

You can also tag an issue yourself to be added to the list.

Being face-to-face with fellow contributors is a great opportunity to have discussions and put forward ideas. Don't feel like you need to come away from the day having completed lines and lines of code.

Code of conduct

To provide a safe and inclusive environment, the sprint day will abide by the DrupalSouth Code of Conduct: https://drupalsouth.org/code-of-conduct

We look forward to seeing you all there!

Tagged

Code Sprint, DrupalSouth, DrupalGov 2020