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Core mentoring sprint

We did something awesome at DrupalCon Denver: on code sprint Friday, we filled a room with between 75 and 100 new Drupal core contributors and helped them work on core issues for the first time.

Participants learned everything from the mechanics of triaging issues to how to write automated tests.  Six of us (myself, Andrea Soper, Tim Plunkett, Lin Clark, Cameron Eagans, and Kelly Bell) introduced and led the sprint, and several other experienced contributors (including David Rothstein, Kieran Lal, and Cathy Theys) stepped up to help mentor during the course of the

A secret

I'm going to tell you a secret: I'm a core issue queue ninja.

I appeared from nowhere last summer and started raising hell--quietly and politely.  I patch and test and triage, and mentor and review.  You look for the new critical, but I have already triaged it.  You ask me for a comment, but I have already replied. I cut through code style errors with deadly efficiency.  Every week, I deploy a ninja clan against the core queue.

These are my assassination targets:

Ninjas need tools

The standard ninja is swift and efficient with bare hands and feet, but so much more deadly when

I've been facilitating the Drupal core office hours for about four months now. You know those sorta-similar tweets you see retweeted from @drupalcore most Wednesdays? Yeah, that chirpy little bird is me. Now that D8 development is picking up, D7 is approaching its first birthday, and DrupalCon Denver is right around the corner, I'd like to share some updates. What follows is some background on office hours, a status report of sorts, and my pitch for a "core office day" sprint at DrupalCon Denver. (Seeking co-leads!)