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Running DW code
At OSCON, Mark and I were discussing adoption of the DW code by other sites, and a little bit of how we could work to that point. Mark's interested in cross-site federation and open social-media protocols, but I'm thinking a bit more about making it easier for people to install and run the DW code.
Right now, the code we 'ship', in dw-free, is pretty fully functional. Somebody could grab that code, install it, and have a working and running site without a ton of custom work. It's not easy, though, and there are a lot of "gotcha"s in place during the install process.
Better install documentation is a must, and that's something we can work on, but I'm throwing the option open to the field: what else can we do to improve the DW install process, with the end goal of having someone be able to get the code and get it running with as little hassle as possible? We have a bunch of bugs open to do that, but what (besides documentation and an installer) do you think people would be looking for?
Right now, the code we 'ship', in dw-free, is pretty fully functional. Somebody could grab that code, install it, and have a working and running site without a ton of custom work. It's not easy, though, and there are a lot of "gotcha"s in place during the install process.
Better install documentation is a must, and that's something we can work on, but I'm throwing the option open to the field: what else can we do to improve the DW install process, with the end goal of having someone be able to get the code and get it running with as little hassle as possible? We have a bunch of bugs open to do that, but what (besides documentation and an installer) do you think people would be looking for?
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WP took a step back with 3.x, WP MU did install itself fully if your server had the right spec, but WP still requires the installer create and upload a wp-config file in a text editor.
If MU could install without that and make its own config file, then the basic setup should be able to, but they've merged MU into basic WP now, but require turnign it on in config.
But yeah, wot Allen said. Although it'll be ages until I'll be able tos et up my own server,t he eventual goal must be lots of mini sites working together for dev but separately for hosting.