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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.<\/p>\n\n

My first DrupalCon<\/h2>\n\n

The first DrupalCon that I attended was in 2013, also in Prague.<\/p>\n\n

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.<\/p>\n\n

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.<\/p>\n\n

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.<\/p>\n\n

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.<\/p>\n\n

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!<\/p>\n\n

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.<\/p>\n\n

The Five Year Issue<\/h2>\n\n

One of the most memorable times mentoring was whilst working with a group of contributors at DrupalCon in May 2015.<\/p>\n\n

Someone was working on a Drupal core issue that was very similar to one that I'd looked at<\/a> a few years before.<\/p>\n\n

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\".<\/p>\n\n

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<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n ", "format": "full_html", "processed": "\n

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.<\/p>\n\n

My first DrupalCon<\/h2>\n\n

The first DrupalCon that I attended was in 2013, also in Prague.<\/p>\n\n

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.<\/p>\n\n

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.<\/p>\n\n

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.<\/p>\n\n

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.<\/p>\n\n

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!<\/p>\n\n

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.<\/p>\n\n

The Five Year Issue<\/h2>\n\n

One of the most memorable times mentoring was whilst working with a group of contributors at DrupalCon in May 2015.<\/p>\n\n

Someone was working on a Drupal core issue that was very similar to one that I'd looked at<\/a> a few years before.<\/p>\n\n

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\".<\/p>\n\n

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<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n ", "summary": null } ], "feeds_item": [ { "imported": "2025-05-11T09:00:55+00:00", "guid": null, "hash": "0c8202093b9bab15e532858ca4d09169", "target_type": "feeds_feed", "target_uuid": "90c85284-7ca8-4074-9178-97ff8384fe76" } ] }