Lesson Zero: Identifying Goals

[misskat]

So, this is lesson zero: figuring out what you want to get out of this experience. I know that for me, personally, I want to be able to hack on DW, And fix bugs that Support encounters. My primary goal is to become familiar enough with Dreamwidth's code base that I can make that happen.

What are your goals for this project? What do you want to accomplish? Will you hack for DW?

How much experience do you have? Are you familiar with other languages, or will the Perl be your first experience? Have you toyed with the command line before? Where is a good baseline for us to start?

Please comment with your responses, and any other relevant information.


( I apologize for any weirdnesses. I am dictating this via my phone. My hands are aliens.)

Comments

[alierak]

I have a lot of experience with a lot of programming languages including Perl, and occasionally contribute small things to DW. Don't mind me. There are big chunks of DW (and probably Perl) that I'm not familiar with from everyday use, so I always feel like I'm reverse engineering everything when I try to help. I'm looking to keep up with DW best practices, what we teach our devs, and be able to contribute more than the occasional tiny patch.