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    1. Getting Involved with WordPress Peter Westwood “westi” http://blog.ftwr.co.uk
    2. A little bit about me
      • WordPress.org user since February 2004
      • WordPress.org Lead Developer since July 2007
      • WordPress is a hobby!
    3. Overview
      • Different ways of getting involved
        • Development
        • Documentation
        • Testing
        • Support
        • Translation
    4. Development
      • Fixing bugs
      • Writing new features
      • Triaging bugs
      • Writing code documentation
      • Writing unit tests
    5. Documentation and Testing
      • Documentation
        • Writing code documentation
        • Writing end-user documentation
      • Testing
        • Writing unit tests
        • Testing patches
        • Testing beta releases and release candidates
    6. Support
      • Helping out on the .org forums
        • A large variety or questions!
    7. trac.wordpress.org
    8. What it is....
      • The central hub for WordPress development
      • Used for tracking changes to the core code
      • “The rules”
        • Anyone can create a ticket
        • Anyone can work on a ticket
        • Anyone can edit a ticket
    9. Making the best use of it...
      • Finding things to work on
        • Using reports
        • Using keywords
          • reporter-feedback, has-patch, needs-patch, needs-testing, 2nd-opinion, dev-feedback, tested, commit, needs-patch, needs-unit-tests, needs-doc
        • Asking!
          • #wordpress-dev on irc.freenode.net
    10. codex.wordpress.org
    11. WordPress unit test suite
      • The beginnings of a comprehensive unit test suite.
      • https://svn.automattic.com/wordpress-tests/
    12. WordPress xref http://sandbox.ftwr.co.uk/wp/
    13. WordPress phpDoc http://sandbox.ftwr.co.uk/doc/
    14. GSOC
      • Get more open source code created and released for the benefit of all;
      • Inspire young developers to begin participating in open source development;
      • Help open source projects identify and bring in new developers and committers;
      • Provide students in Computer Science and related fields the opportunity to do work related to their academic pursuits;
      • Give students more exposure to real-world software development scenarios (e.g., distributed development, software licensing questions, mailing-list etiquette).
    15. mailing lists
      • A large variety
        • wp-hackers
        • wp-testers
        • wp-docs
        • wp-polygots
        • wp-xmlrpc
        • wp-pro
        • wp-trac
        • wp-svn
    16. crazyhorse
    17. Questions?

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