Today's BoF for new Drupal contributors went better than I could have hoped. I've seen three of the participants in the issue queue already! One thing that came up at the BoF session was taht new contributors aren't always sure how to set up their dev environment and choose tools that will make playing in the issue queue easier

Almost everything I do is under version control of some kind. I prefer to use git, but Drupal uses CVS, and a couple of other things I am involved with use Subversion. Sometimes it is useful to remove the files these systems leave behind -- for example, when I upload a web site I've developed to the production server. Doing it by hand is annoying, so here's a quick bash script I threw together, just in case anyone is interested.