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Mark Smith ([staff profile] mark) wrote in [site community profile] dw_dev2013-03-04 01:08 pm
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A little organization and updates!

Hi all!

I've been doing some poking around and realized that I don't have a good overall state-of-the-DW-development. I have some vague ideas about what some people are working on and interested in, but I wanted to make those vague ideas become a bit less vague. :)

If you have a few minutes, I'd appreciate you taking the time to answer a couple of quick questions here!

  1. Are you actively working on a bug (or several) right now? Which ones?
  2. What are you interested in working on -- broadly or narrowly, what do you want to do? (Or are you just open for suggestions?)
  3. Is there anything explicitly blocking you from doing what you want? (Knowledge, someone has the bug claimed for a year, need a hand with something, etc.)
  4. Free form! Anything you want to say or ask. :)

I also want us to have another development focused chat like we did some months ago. I think the last one I did was well timed for US developers but bad for EU, so I'll go the other way this time. I'm thinking something like 8AM Pacific which is midnight for [personal profile] fu and 4PM UTC on a Sunday. Reasonable?

Thanks!

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[personal profile] momijizukamori 2013-03-05 12:22 am (UTC)(link)
1) I haven't been doing much in the last couple of months because Life Is Scary and it's easier to stick my head in the sand (by which I mean run off and just read comics), but I'm theoretically working on patching somew new layouts, the S2 siteview comment pages, carrying custom text through layouts, having a 'no icon' option even with default set, and having style categories that make sense.

2) Styles stuff! But I'd like to learn more Perl and dive into Javascript, and I've been kind of poking at some bugs with more of that.

3) For patched styles - reviews. We've got a backlog going back to last summer, iirc. For the perl patches I've been banging my head on, I need someone more knowledgable to have a look-see to figure out what I'm doing that's not working.

4) Anyone in the PacNW want to hire me so I can stop panicking about my life *g*?
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[staff profile] mark 2013-03-08 07:04 pm (UTC)(link)
I hear you about life.

I'll see about helping Afuna with the backend/Perl reviews so she can have some more time to focus on the frontend ones.

I really want to get you further into the Perl things. You seem perfectly placed in skills and interest to take the next steps and start getting into more core functionality -- frontend or backend! :)

Do you have any specific links for Perl things you've been working on and would like a hand with? You can also hop in IRC and PM me or ping me in #dreamwidth-dev and I'd be happy to help if I'm around!
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[personal profile] momijizukamori 2013-03-09 04:02 am (UTC)(link)
Fu and 90D went and filled my inbox with style review comments, so we're a fair bit more caught up on that one now!

The 'Custom Text as userprop' and 'Have a No Icon option even when default is set' are the two I started and then ended up hitting a wall with. The custom text one is... partway there. I have a widget! It renders! It grabs the S2 layer text if no custom text is saved! But it doesn't save to the userprops for some reason.

The no-icon one has just been me banging my head against a wall repeatedly, basically.
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