Dreamwidth Development AMA for July

[karzilla]

One of the things I want to start doing as DevCom on a semi-regular basis is encouraging people to come to me with any questions they have about Dreamwidth development, large or small. I want to do this in two ways: for people who prefer real time chat, I will start holding IRC office hours, and for people who prefer threaded comment discussions, use this post as a springboard!

You can ask me absolutely anything related to Dreamwidth and I will answer to the best of my ability. Don't be shy!

Comments

[allen]

No, no, no--I'm supposed to be asking the questions! You're supposed to be giving answers! :D

Ok, fine. Let's see... Well, to start with, format-wise, I think that the format of the answer would depend on the content of the answer. If there has been work on big features that aren't ready yet, highlight those. If there has been lots of theme work done, mention those. BML-to-TT conversion? Gather it together and say how these four people have moved seven more pages off BML. No coherent theme but just a bunch of random bugs/improvements? Say that.

Future work is a good topic, too. Did some good issues just get posted from DW-suggestions? Those could be highlighted. Is a particular bug causing lots of people problems? Ask someone to take and fix it. Want to offer up a theme for development for the next two months? Pick one, group together all the issues on GitHub, and ask people to work on them. Or highlight 10 bugs and put up a poll for a most-wanted list.

As for what individual developers are doing... Well, I admit that I'm interested in what the official DW employees/team leads are doing. Individual volunteer contributors can be called out when they've done something (thanks to x for code reviews, y for writing this new feature, and z for updating the docs!), but I wouldn't want to have to tell everyone that I've not had any DW time this month because of my Threes addiction.

There might be some things that you'd want to cover with every post, but I wouldn't think that they'd all be necessary (or apropos) all the time. Really, I'd think that if you cover just a few things, then that will make us ask more questions.

Oh, and we're still doing preliminary work. Did a design for the REST API pieces we'll need, looked into our Oauth implementation some, and started on Baby's First iOS App Using Swift.

[karzilla]

This was really immensely helpful, thank you. <3