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

[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?