Issue procedures and etiquette

The section on issue fields provides detailed descriptions of the fields on issue reports. But just knowing what the fields mean is not always enough -- in order to get your issues addressed, and participate fully in the Drupal community, it is also helpful to understand:

  • The etiquette of issues
  • How to make an effective issue report
  • How to search for issues (to avoid duplicate issues)
  • As a project maintainer, how to respond effectively to issues
  • How to help a project maintainer with issue triage and other issue maintenance tasks

This section addresses these topics.

Following issues and getting notifications

How to see and get notified about new and updated issues of interest

Getting an issue addressed sooner

How to get an issue you created or are interested in addressed sooner by the project maintainers

Granting credit to issue contributors

How (as maintainer) to grant credit to contributors

Issue etiquette

How to participate in issues appropriately and effectively

Issue scope guidelines for Drupal core issues

Guidelines for deciding what belongs in a single Drupal core issue

Maintaining and responding to issues for a project

How to be a polite and committed maintainer of the issues for a project

Reporting a security issue

How to report a security issue with Drupal core or a contributed module, theme, or distribution

Reporting a usability issue

How to create a good issue about software usability

Reporting spam

How to report spam on drupal.org

Searching for issues

How to search effectively for issues

Templates for comments

Suggested text for issue comments.

Guide maintainers

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