Wordcamp Uk 2008

Getting Involved with WordPress Peter Westwood “westi” http://blog.ftwr.co.uk

A little bit about me
WordPress.org user since February 2004
WordPress.org Lead Developer since July 2007
WordPress is a hobby!

Overview
Different ways of getting involved
Development
Documentation
Testing
Support
Translation

Development
Fixing bugs
Writing new features
Triaging bugs
Writing code documentation
Writing unit tests

Documentation and Testing
Documentation
Writing code documentation
Writing end-user documentation
Testing
Writing unit tests
Testing patches
Testing beta releases and release candidates

Support
Helping out on the .org forums
A large variety or questions!

trac.wordpress.org

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

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

codex.wordpress.org

WordPress unit test suite
The beginnings of a comprehensive unit test suite.
https://svn.automattic.com/wordpress-tests/

WordPress xref http://sandbox.ftwr.co.uk/wp/

WordPress phpDoc http://sandbox.ftwr.co.uk/doc/

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).

mailing lists
A large variety
wp-hackers
wp-testers
wp-docs
wp-polygots
wp-xmlrpc
wp-pro
wp-trac
wp-svn

crazyhorse

Questions?

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Wordcamp Uk 2008

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