Making WordPress Better

Yesterday I helped someone write their first WordPress core bug report, and then someone else write their first patch to fix that bug.

It happened after I saw a thread in a Facebook group about an issue with WordPress 3.8.
Turns out this was a bug I was responsible for (doh!), but instead of just fixing it, I offered to tutor anyone interested in how to create a bug report and write their first patch.

Revital and Niv jumped on the offer, and so we chatted about how to test and confirm the bug, and how to write a good bug report. Then we followed with installing WordPress via SVN, running the new build process, and generating a patch.

WordPress just gained two new contributors, and this is probably the most meaningful thing I did all week.

4 responses to “Making WordPress Better”

  1. That is awesome!

  2. SVN is so last century…

    say, who do I talk to about the horrible things Hebrew is doing to the management interface of standalone WP?

    1. say, who do I talk to about the horrible things Hebrew is doing to the management interface of standalone WP?

      Since I did a big part of the RTL work on 3.8, I guess that would be me. Where do you want to talk?

      1. Email or phone, whatever you prefer, but after office hours 🙂

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