hypatia suggested I pop in here and maybe get inspired for some stuff to spend my Copious Free Time on.
Your experience level: utter n00b to the DW codebase, experienced developer in general, although Perl is not exactly my core language.
Any areas you particularly like working on: client software, networking, caching, character encoding bugs.
Any areas you particularly hate working on: anything that requires cross-browser stuff. (Ew.) I'd probably want to steer clear of HTML, CSS and JS in general for now.
Whether you're looking for something simple or complex, and how much free time you have to devote to DW in the next month or so: let's say I have 5 to 10 hours. Nothing really deeply complex, because that time will be arranged around a baby and I won't have hours to unpick layers and layers of code. But I'm happy to write lots of lines of code, it doesn't have to be a teeny change. So, um, medium?
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Your experience level: utter n00b to the DW codebase, experienced developer in general, although Perl is not exactly my core language.
Any areas you particularly like working on: client software, networking, caching, character encoding bugs.
Any areas you particularly hate working on: anything that requires cross-browser stuff. (Ew.) I'd probably want to steer clear of HTML, CSS and JS in general for now.
Whether you're looking for something simple or complex, and how much free time you have to devote to DW in the next month or so: let's say I have 5 to 10 hours. Nothing really deeply complex, because that time will be arranged around a baby and I won't have hours to unpick layers and layers of code. But I'm happy to write lots of lines of code, it doesn't have to be a teeny change. So, um, medium?