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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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[staff profile] denise 2013-03-11 07:44 am (UTC)(link)
i'm so excited about 4504, you have no idea!

and yeah, i agree that the UI for the external sites tab is kind of a mishmash. one of these days we will lure somebody with design skillz! in the meantime, just do what you can. :)

also, just to say it again (since it's been a while) -- having people working on the huge features is awesome, don't get me wrong, but i also adoooooooore people hacking on the little bugs, especially stuff that comes up frequently in support. one of the things i love most about running dw is how we're getting to fix all the tiny little bugs that always drove me bugfuck while we were working on lj but couldn't really get approval for hack time for the tiny shit. there are a few major features we've added that i love to bits and pieces, but i think the sheer accumulated weight of all the little fixes is even more awesome (and definitely more immense), really. and i love being the kind of project where we care about the little shit.

you're totally right on needing more big-picture type stuff! i always keep intending to do that and i always keep getting distracted. i should do a "what we want to accomplish in 2013" post.
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