[wp-hackers] Code reviews for plugins?

[Daniel Bachhuber]

I think it's a great idea as well. My coding has benefited  
tremendously from the generosity of others, and I'd love to start  
being able to give back.

On 19 Aug 2010, at 4:01 PM, Eric Mann wrote:

> I, for one, would love to participate in a peer review process.
>
> I recommended last year that someone* put together a group of  
> developers to
> review plug-ins.  I was hoping we could flag "reviewed" plug-ins in  
> the
> repository to give them a bit of extra work - like verifying that a  
> new version
> really does worth with the version of WordPress it claims to.  If we  
> *could*
> flag such plug-ins, it would give the quality ones more weight and  
> allow for a
> quick filter or search.
>
> In any case, +1 on the idea.  And seriously, keep us apprised  
> regarding any kind
> of wpcodereview.com collaboration.
>
> On August 19, 2010 at 7:44 PM Mike Schinkel <mikeschinkel at newclarity.net 
> > wrote:
>
>> Matt:
>>
>> I had the same idea recently and registered http://wpcodereview.com  
>> for that
>> purpose.  Want to collaborate?
>>
>> Another option might be to see if we could somehow use the voting  
>> mechanism
>> that works so well to surface reviews of plugins on WordPress  
>> Answers[1]?
>>
>> Whatever the case, +1 on the concern and the desire to do something  
>> about it.
>>
>> -Mike
>> [1] http://wordpress.stackexchange.com/
>>
>>
>> On Aug 19, 2010, at 3:39 PM, Matt Jacob wrote:
>>
>>> Fact: the quality of plugins in the repository is generally pretty  
>>> low.
>>>
>>> Obviously, there are exceptions, and those exceptions rise to the  
>>> top and
>>> become more popular. But for the 10,000-some plugins listed, I bet  
>>> that
>>> fewer than 100 of those would be considered best practices in plugin
>>> development. Unfortunately, most---not all---plugin developers  
>>> probably
>>> don't even give a crap.
>>>
>>> For those developers who *do* give a crap (or several craps), and  
>>> who *do*
>>> want to publish high-quality plugins, what resources are  
>>> available? I was
>>> thinking it might be neat if more experienced WP developers from  
>>> wp-hackers
>>> volunteered to do code reviews of up-and-coming plugins (initiated  
>>> by the
>>> plugin developer; not just a random selection).
>>>
>>> You could be the best software engineer in the world, but  
>>> WordPress is a
>>> separate beast. It's a huge system that's evolved over many years,  
>>> and the
>>> fact of the matter is that the more experience developers need to  
>>> pass on
>>> the tribal knowledge they've acquired along the way. IMO, code  
>>> reviews are a
>>> good way to do that.
>>>
>>> Thoughts?
>>>
>>> Matt
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