Summary

The first five recipes in this chapter are related to the Drupal issue queue found at http://drupal.org/project/issues/, or http://drupal.org/project/issues/<MODULENAME>

We created a quick way to go from a lone issue number on a web page to the actual issue page. We looked at essential skills for searching and posting to the issue queue, and then covered critical Drupal skills: how to apply an existing patch, and how to create a new one. (See Appendix G for a categorized list of patches for Views 1.)

We looked at a nice plugin to add web site searches directly to the browser address bar. We applied this to search the Contributions API site. (It could be used just as well to api.drupal.org, and many other sites that contain search.)

We covered some key IRC concepts and saw a super-quick way to access the Drupal support channel. Finally, we provided a short survey of some useful web pages and sites.

Although the chapter focuses on online resources, groups.drupal.org will put you...