[wp-hackers] [GSoC 2011] Intention for application

[Mihai Chereji]

     Hello, my name's Mihai Chereji and I'm an undergraduate Software 
Engineering student from Cluj-Napoca, Romania.

     I'm really interested in participating in GSoC (and general 
involvement in WP) from this summer.

     There are 2 of the proposed ideas which caught my eye. I'm also 
working on my own idea.

     I'm interested in working on the Moving WP idea, as this has been a 
bane for me as a WP dev for some time. (moving client sites from local 
to production servers). I realize this isn't the only use case; However 
I'd like to take this a step further: a plugin for syncing/moving a dev, 
a staging, and a production server for the same site, using whichever 
protocol's available (ftp or ssh).

     Why not use some sort of scm,you ask? I haven't been able to find 
something similar (and easy) for the database, and that is part of the 
pain, actually. This plug-in would allow to push/pull files, 
databases/content, together or separately, to any of the other servers 
configured for a particular install.

However, this is prety similar to Mike Schinkel's already existing 
plugin (which he just posted - 
http://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/119/easily-move-a-wordpress-install-from-development-to-production/182#182 
), so I'm not sure this could fill an entire GSoC time-frame, so I'm 
probably going to focus on my other proposals.


I'm also interested in updating the file uploader to use the File API, 
where available (falling back to the flash uploader/simple uploader). 
I'm figuring searching for a capable library (or write my own, in case 
nothing surfaces - highly unlikely) should be done before the actual 
coding period begins.

This could be extended to doing simple file manipulation straight on the 
client - resizing images so he doesn't send huge images to his site, 
saving bandwidth, maybe cutting an audio file to the length he needs 
before sending it up. Simple things which would save the user some 
hassle. But I'm getting ahead of myself.

Thanks,

Mihai