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

[momijizukamori]

I'm definitely interested in hacking on DW, and in general would like to get better at stepping in and learning an already-there codebase, as well as how to break down a big project into it's necessary components.

I'm familiar with basic data structures and coditionals in Perl and Python - I used to know them in Java and Scheme too but I think I've forgotten most of that. I'm fairly well-versed in S2 (aka perl-lite) and HTML/CSS. I'm also fairly comfortable on the commandline and am getting comfortable with git.

(I also realize I probably skew the stats some here, but I'm more than okay being a helper for earlier stuff)