TYPO3 Core Contributions

About

This skill provides a comprehensive roadmap for developers and technical writers contributing to the TYPO3 ecosystem. It automates and instructs on every phase of the contribution lifecycle, including account configuration, environment setup via DDEV, adherence to TYPO3's strict commit message standards, and the management of multi-revision Gerrit review processes. By integrating with Forge for issue tracking and providing validation scripts, it ensures that patches meet TYPO3's quality requirements and successfully pass CI/CD pipelines.

Key Features

• Environment prerequisite checking and DDEV setup automation
• 7 GitHub stars
• Forge issue integration and automated issue creation via API
• End-to-end guidance for Gerrit and GitHub PR submission workflows
• Automated TYPO3 commit message generation and validation
• Step-by-step instructions for rebasing and updating Gerrit patch sets

Use Cases

• Updating official TYPO3 documentation via the GitHub pull request workflow
• Setting up a local TYPO3 development environment with the necessary Git hooks and CGL checks
• Fixing a TYPO3 Core bug and submitting the patch for review on Gerrit