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On last Wednesday, I participated at the August Sevilla Drupal Group monthly meeting, talking about my experience contributing to Drupal.

We walked through how to contribute translations, the modules and themes contribution approval process, how to report issues, how to contribute a patch and how you could become involved in the on progress Drupal Initiatives. We also did a quick review on what we can expect of Drupal 8.

The slides I used are based on Webchick's "One Drupal 8 Slide Deck To Rule Them All". For the reference, they are available on Slideshare: Contributing to drupal from Christian Lopez

I saved on Del.icio.us too a collection of the links we looked at.

One year ago, a refactoring at the Gettext .po file parsing and generation started.

Finally, that issue has been fixed. I were working with Sutharsan, ClemensTolboom, GaborHojtsy and Attiks on this issue at the Drupal Developer Days sprint, and after the sprint we finally (well, mostly Gábor...) pushed forward to its completion.

The new design is something like this:

(Diagram by Gábor Hojtsy)

I'm very grateful for their help on being started on contributing to the D8MI Initiative, and hopefully I'll be working on more things into the D8MI sprint. Any help is welcome!

So third day of the Sprint, with Peter, Clemens and I working on Gettext. It would be the last day for Clemens, so we expected to do great advances :-)

Day started great, and I don't get stuck like previous days with obvious things. We kept with the refactoring and finally core/includes/gettext.inc could be removed. w00t!

Thanks to Gábor's explanation we understood what was expected for the batch API part of this, so we are able of advancing on that, but maybe on another issue context. This one became too big and splitting it could be of help. Peter wrote some more integration tests, and I finished fixing plurals handling and cleaning up some methods. Thanks Clemens for your patience, and hope that we can advance without you in the next days!