[wp-hackers] Google Summer of Code 2008

[Dan Larkin]

I'd love to get in on GSoC as a student.  If I had the credentials to be a
mentor I'd jump on it, but unfortunately I'm not really qualified for that.
In any case, there is a project that I'd like to see accomplished, whether
as GSoC or simply as a wonderful part of WP in general.  That is some sort
of code flow documentation.  Inline documentation is great, and it helps a
ridiculous amount, but for those trying to get into WP hacking, the idea can
be daunting.  I've only been hacking around WP casually for a couple months
and the greatest obstacle I've faced is figuring out which parts of code
call which other parts.  It's not necessarily that it's hard to do, but it's
very time consuming.  An all-in-one code flow doc, whether it be an HTML
handbook or a wiki, would be really helpful, especially to beginning WP
hackers.  Just throwing it out there as an idea.

:: Dan Larkin

On 2/26/08, Computer Guru <computerguru at neosmart.net> wrote:
>
> On 2/26/08, Jacob Santos <wordpress at santosj.name> wrote:
> > Lloyd Budd wrote:
> >  > On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 11:09 AM, Ronald Heft <ron at cavemonkey50.com>
> wrote:
> >  >
> >  >> I noticed that today Google announced they will be running the
> Summer of
> >  >>  Code again in 2008: http://code.google.com/soc/2008/. Does
> WordPress plan
> >  >>  on applying to participate again this year? I hope so. I'm really
> looking
> >  >>  forward to this year's Summer of Code and hope to improve upon last
> year.
> >  >>
> >  >
> >  > Most definitely. It is *completely* dependent on people volunteering
> >  > to mentor though -- and hopefully less strong arming from me this
> year
> >  > ;-)
> >  >
> >  > If you are interesting in volunteering as a mentor please share with
> >  > us in this thread your interest and for now just the broad area of
> >  > expertise / interest for mentoring.
> >  >
> >  >
> >  > Thank you,
> >  >
> >
> >
> > I would rather be a student, since I'm in school and I don't have too
> >  much experience with WordPress. Of course, I do know about 20-30% of
> the
> >  code base and can easily read code to determine the purpose and follow
> >  the path and figure the outcome.
> >
> >  Dude, totally could rewrite major portions of the code base to use
> >  DOMXML and DOM since the requirements have increased to 4.3. You could
> >  use that as one of the projects. You would need a wrapper to be
> >  compatible with both DOMXML and DOM, since DOMXML is PHP 4.3.x to PHP
> >  4.4.x and DOM is PHP 5+ only. If you don't realize by now, you can't
> use
> >  both at the same time, or you can only use one or the other. Therefore
> >  you will have to create something that uses either DOMXML or DOM
> >  depending on the PHP version.
> >
> >  The advantages of this, would be quicker parsing of XML and
> >  (well-formed) XHTML. Less bug prone WordPress to WordPress
> >  Exporter/Importer not dependent on strict formatting standards and
> >  generally just less bug prone. Would also be totally sweet.
> >
> >
> >  --
> >
> >  Jacob Santos
> >
> >  http://www.santosj.name - blog
> >  http://funcdoc.wordpress.com - WordPress Documentation Blog/Guide
> Licensed under GPLv2
> >
> >  Also known as darkdragon and santosj on WP trac.
> >
> >
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>
> I'm in school too, but I have no idea if I'll have time come Summer....
>
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