https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8178
--- Comment #8 from badon <[email protected]> --- Yes, I am interested, but it will take me a ridiculous amount of time to get up to speed enough to feel confident in doing something novel and useful. I would prefer to achieve that by studying code and internally documenting it with code comments to a level of detail and verbosity that comments could dominate the code. As I'm sure you're aware, I'm not exactly a beginner programmer, but I consider myself to still be quite unfamiliar with PHP and the MediaWiki code base. So, my comments may seem pedantic or annoying from the point of view of someone who is already past that entry-level learning curve, although I've never actually had anyone complain in other projects I've worked on. Mediawiki is the largest collaborative project I have been involved in, and I have noticed perhaps 1 or 2 WMF-affiliated developers that seem to do things like I do, but they're unusual (and quite important, talented WMF contributors). If there's no problem with me starting small with just basic things like comments, then progressing to code cleanup, etc, then I think I'm ready to begin advancing to more direct contributions to MediaWiki and WMF using developer access. The upside to starting this way is if I screw something up due to inexperience, it's only comments that don't break anything. I love starting small. What do you think, Sumana? -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug. You are watching all bug changes. _______________________________________________ Wikibugs-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
