[wp-hackers] andrew hall - who why what & suggestion

[jill]

ayj & j wrote:

>I find the greatest constraint to efficiently creating something for WP - or
>just helping someone else with their problem - is getting deeply familiar
>with the underlying core WP code and structure.

Word, Mr. Hall.

>Conversely, sometimes I spend a significant amount of time learning how one
>part of the core code works and my understanding gained in doing that could
>be useful to others. To give an minor example I recently spent a day getting
>on top of how the basic upload.php page worked. 

I lived that day with categories just yesterday.

>The point here is not the specifics of my example. My suggestion is that we
>create a facility for allowing us to leave detailed documentation and
>commentary regarding each file of the WP core - and why not of all plug-ins
>as well. Perhaps something along the lines of the on-line php manual. A
>separate page for each file with posts underneath. Even better would be
>links from the relevant point in the script to the comment.

A plugin wiki might indeed be worthwhile. At the very least, I might be prevented from
reinventing the wheel, to which activity I am all too prone.

Though I see Matt asserts the current wiki is intended to accomplish that. Cool. I shall take
him at his word. :)

I've also, in the course of upgrading two weblogs from MT in the last little while (third and
last to go) worked out a series of set mysql commands for fine-tuning the details once the
(really quite marvelous) importation script is done. I have no idea where the best place to
share those would be; the forum? wiki? I don't know. I'm new. So maybe a wiki page would
be best.

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