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

[ninetydegrees]

I wanna be able to work on DW bugs I couldn't work on before or needed collaboration with.

I'm well-versed in HTML (although not so much with HTML5) and CSS (2 and 3); I know S2 to some extent which gives me familiarity with some basics (variables, methods, conditionals,...) so that I can read some code and do some small things but sometimes I'm just so out of my depth. I believe I actually went through some chapters of Beginning Perl but I never finished it. Also I'd like it if we could do some practical things related to DW like working on an unresolved bug together because I feel a lot of courses don't really help you do things on your own.

[misskat]

That's part of the plan! The hope is to get every person here to pick one bug out of a list, and then work on it with the class. :)

[ninetydegrees]

Yay! Awesome!