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title: "Being a Drupal contribution mentor"
date: "2022-09-21"
permalink: "/archive/2022/09/21/being-drupal-contribution-mentor"
tags: ["drupal"]
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This week is DrupalCon Prague, and although I'm not at this event, I'd like to write about some my experiences at DrupalCon - in particular about being a contribution mentor.
## My first DrupalCon
The first DrupalCon that I attended was in 2013, also in Prague.
I was enjoying the session days when I stopped at the mentoring table to find out more about the contribution sprints that were happening on the Friday.
I didn't have any commits in Drupal core but had already worked on and released some of my own contributed modules, so I was familiar with the tools and the Drupal.org contribution workflow. In short, I was signed up to be a mentor during the sprints.
I remember being involved in the preparation too, sitting in a hotel lobby, identifying potential issues for new contributors to work on, alongside people who I'd previously interacted with in the issue queues on Drupal.org.
On the day, I helped new contributors get their local environments up and running, select issues to work on, and perform tasks like creating and re-rolling patch files and submitting them for review.
One of my highlights at the end of the day was the live commit, when a patch that a new contributor had worked on that day was committed to Drupal core live on stage!
Whenever I've attended DrupalCon events since, I've always volunteered to be a contribution mentor, as well as mentoring and organising sprints at other Drupal events.
## The Five Year Issue
One of the most memorable times mentoring was whilst working with a group of contributors at DrupalCon in May 2015.
Someone was working on a Drupal core issue that was very similar to [one that I'd looked at](https://www.drupal.org/project/drupal/issues/753898) a few years before.
We focused on the original issue that I'd commented on, reviewed, tested, and re-rolled the patch, fixed a failing test, and marked it as "reviewed and tested by the community".
A few days after the conference, and just over five years after my original comment, the patch was committed - giving my contributors their first commits to Drupal 8 core, and also [one of mine](https://git.drupalcode.org/project/drupal/-/commits/9.5.x?search=opdavies).