Dreamwidth Development Training

Last updated: 2021-02-97

This is a list of bugs that will serve as a good introduction to the Dreamwidth development workflow. They involve varying levels of rummaging up to your elbows in the guts of the code but I can promise that we'll all be only to pleased to help :-) If in doubt, just take a look at the list of things real DW programmers do...

Struck out bugs are ones that have been claimed but not yet resolved. All issues on this list are tagged curated: beginner - I update this post once a fortnight, but by all means check the GHI tag to see if there's anything I haven't mentioned yet! If you're after a challenge, you can also try looking at non-curated lower-effort issues, all unassigned issues, or rummage through dw_suggestions' bugzilla: migrated tag for features you'd like to implement. (If you do that last one, check to make sure that the entry isn't also tagged bugzilla: implemented, and that there isn't a corresponding assigned issue.)

• Issue #673: implement option to make tags go above entry text in all styles. This is additionally tagged effort-higher, but that's because it's a small change that needs applying in an awful lot of places.
  
• Issue #674: standardise option to have navigation links at the top/in header. This is similar, in that it's effort-higher because it's a lot of small changes.
  
• Issue #829: calendar overflows in Leftovers when font is big enough.
  
• Issue #966: convert birthdays.tt to use Foundation.
  
• Issue #967: convert login.tt to use Foundation. These days Dreamwidth uses a combination of tt (Template Toolkit) and Foundation to style pages - there's a fair bit on the wiki and lots of help to be had in IRC!
  
• Issue #968: convert protected.tt to use Foundation.
  
• Issue #1482: Clarify header image options in Heads Up style.
  
• Issue #1817: Make nav strip and hover menu behave consistently when joining moderated-membership communities. This requires applying the fix for #1599, previously featured on this list, to the nav strip as well as the hover menu!
  
• Issue #1841: suggested improvement for /admin/priv: include packages in dropdown. Include things that already exist in a dropdown menu!
  
• Issue #1944: screening/unscreening confirmation page should have link back to comment
  
• Issue #1987: selective screening should only act on account types that can comment. Communities can't comment, and people who try to ban anonymous comments actually currently end up banning the community anonymous! This is a confusing state of affairs.
  
• <>Issue #2018: Abstractia journal style needs background repeats.</> Because otherwise things end up looking weird and unhappy on large screens. A quick bit of style-wrangling!
  
• Issue #2140: clarify check-all tickybox on https://www.dreamwidth.org/manage/settings/?cat=notifications. Some UI needs improving -- and Denise has suggested wording! It's just a case of filling it out.
  
• Issue 2208: Outdated comment in cgi-bin/LJ/S2/EntryPage.pm line 389, links to dead LJ URL
  
• Issue #2287: English-strip LJ::check_mail. Here's how!
  
• Issue #2360: <s> is stripped from entry titles. Two-character fix!
  
• Issue #2364: "please try beta update page instead". Add a banner to the beta version of the Create Entries page!
  
• Issue #2380: Typos in https://www.dreamwidth.org/manage/settings/?cat=shortcuts.
  
• Issue #2408: Reword warning in https://dreamwidth.org/customize/advanced. It's currently far more off-putting than it needs to be!
  
• Issue #2439: Remove comms from lost account / lost pw email... because in this brave new world this no longer a useful concept. Code machete!
  
• Issue #2627: update AO3 user links to use HTTPS
  
• Issue #2368: add Twitch to embed whitelist. Here's how!
  
• Issue #2349: add Podomatic to embed whitelist. Here's how!
  
• Issue #2711: update Github user profile icon to HTTPS
  

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Enjoy! And please do ask for help. Or cheerleading. Or anything else you feel like. ♥