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GSoC Pre-Application IRC Chats
Okay, potential GSoC students. By now you’ve hopefully settled on a project idea or are narrowing it down between a couple of choices, have gotten some feedback by sending your ideas to the wp-hackers list, and/or have talked to mentors in the #wordpress-gsoc irc channel. For the next 6 days, we’ll be holding scheduled irc…
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Last call for GSoC mentors Making the IRC…
Last call for GSoC mentors! Making the IRCIRC Internet Relay Chat, a network where users can have conversations online. IRC channels are used widely by open source projects, and by WordPress. The primary WordPress channels are #wordpress and #wordpress-dev, on irc.freenode.net. schedule now for GSoC mentor chats/q&a, and want to be sure I have everyone.…
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Dev chat summary 3/30/2011
3.2 check in: Westi working on https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/16827 Rboren pushed 3.1.1 this week, shifting to 3.2 now Azaozz working on full-screen editing for Visual mode. Mini version of TinyMCE has no buttons or toolbars, but keyboard shortcuts work. Possible hidden/floating toolbar up top for some buttons. Will put out as pluginPlugin A plugin is a piece…
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Quick and dirty flyer for GSoC Print and…
Quick and dirty flyer for GSoC. Print and post anywhere you think smart college student developers will see it in your city. Got a late start on recruiting students, so if everyone can help publicize, that would be great. Post to your PHPPHP The web scripting language in which WordPress is primarily architected. WordPress requires…
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Deadline for Open Source Bridge proposals is tomorrow…
Deadline for Open Source Bridge proposals is tomorrow. I went last year and there was no WordPress on the schedule, though a ton of attendees were WordPress users. It’s in Portland in June, Viper007Bond is in town, and you could visit locations from Portlandia to boot. Maybe a few people here will decide to submit…
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GSoC Students: No one is going to steal your idea!
There have been a number of potential GSoC students asking potential WordPress mentors to look over their applications privately before they are submitted, as the students are afraid someone will steal their idea. This is not the way to approach applying; please use the requested forms of contact at this time — wp-hackers for feedback…
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GSoC Mentors sorry for the delay The new…
GSoC Mentors: sorry for the delay. The new melange UIUI User interface is freaking me out and I can’t find anything. It went from about 50 navigation links to 5, and I’ll be spending the morning trying to figure out where the heck things moved. In the meantime, let’s set up some open IRCIRC Internet…
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The student application period opens on Monday For…
The student application period opens on Monday. For the record, here is the GSoC timeline between now and the end of the program: March 28, 19:00 UTC Student application period opens. April 8, 19:00 UTC Student application deadline. Interim Period: Mentoring organizations review and rank student proposals; where necessary, mentoring organizations may request further proposal…
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Code refactoring should not be done just because…
Code refactoring should not be done just because we can. There are a number of “refactoring” tickets that seem to be missing the mark. Meanwhile, plenty of tasks are far more worthy of effort. Here are some suggested guidelines on what these tickets need in order to get any review: Unit tests, even if the…
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Bug gardeners there is now a 3.2 milestone…
Bug gardenersBug Gardener A contributor who has been given advanced privileges in Trac., there is now a 3.2 milestone in core.tracTrac An open source project by Edgewall Software that serves as a bug tracker and project management tool for WordPress.. Tickets assigned to this milestone should relate to the 3.2 plan. There are currently 312…