Request for mentoring?

[swaldman]

Hi all.

I'm thinking of taking on bug 4504 as a longish term project - it's to offer automatic tweeting of new DW posts, which would scratch a personal itch for me.

But, it's a far wider-reaching thing than I've attempted on DW before, and would involve me learning a lot not just on how to do specific things, but on how to approach designing a new feature, IYSWIM.

Is there anybody experienced who'd be willing to do a bit of hand-holding and/or mentoring? I'm generally OK on minutiae, it's likely to be more a case of sanity-checking on overall approaches and answering "where can I find out about this thing". So I don't imagine it would be a huge time investment - especially as I'm kinda short on time myself at present - but it would require a little bit of expanding "do it this way" to "do it this way, and this is why" ;-)

Thanks in advance to anybody with spare time and inclination.

-S

Comments

[exor674]

I'm probably one of the few people on the project who can actually help you with this, and unfortunately, pretty much all my free time is about to vanish into the æther for the next 10 weeks very soon. Hopefully someone else'll have the time.

[swaldman]

No worries - good luck with whatever you are doing for the next 10 weeks or so :-)

[exor674]

Schoooooooooool!

[swaldman]

ooooh. Good luck :-)

[allen]

I don't know the specifics of Twitter, but I could certainly advise regarding the DW side of things. Especially if you want to hook in to the crossposter code; I know that pretty well.

[swaldman]

Thank you :-)

I think that it makes sense to put the new UI elements alongside crossposting-related things, but I don't know whether it's the best option in the back end.

When time permits (this is unlikely to be fast-moving) I guess I should spec out what I'm thinking, and discuss it with you. What's the best way to connect less-publicly?