[wp-forums] Lack of code savvy volunteers vs wp-hackers

[Handy]

Not sure if my reply will hit the hackers list as I'm not currently sub'd...

Suppose that the support forum volunteers added a tag to posts that would
benefit from a "hacker" looking it over?
Something clever like "hackers", perhaps.

Interested hackers could then just check
http://wordpress.org/tags/hackers
or even subscribe to
http://wordpress.org/support/rss/tags/hackers
and help as time and need allows.

While we're supposing... suppose that feed was piped to the hackers list
daily/weekly?

I can almost hear the howls over that last one... but if the forum
volunteers promised not to abuse the "hackers" tag?  ;-)

Handy


On 11/24/06, Michael B <miklb.online at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I'm cross posting this to both the forums and the hackers list, and
> perhaps
> the copious amounts of sun from fishing all day, or perhaps it's the many
> blog posts I've read lately about the lack of focused participation in the
> forums/codex, but it seems after my most recent reply in the hackers list,
> that if less time was spent by the more talented coders who know the code
> on
> the hackers list, and more in the forums, either via an "advanced" forum,
> or
> something of the sort, many birds would be killed with fewer stones...
>
> I see more and more discussions and questions posed on the hackers list
> that
> really could be relevant to the forums, and would be more widely read
> there.  Likewise, if those that frequent the hackers list spent just a
> *few
> more minutes* there, some of the more technical questions that go
> unanswered
> would get some love.  I wholly understand the desire for less "noise", and
> the like minded camaraderie that is shared on the hackers list, but in the
> spirit of growing the community, as well as embracing new users, be it
> some
> times skilled coders unfamiliar with the nuances of WP, it could benefit
> the
> greater discussion.
>
> I'm not suggesting the wp-hackers list doesn't have it's place, but am
> suggesting that perhaps some of the discussion isn't that far above the
> general audience that it can't be shared with the masses.
>
> I'd hate for wp-hackers to some day evolve into into something like
> css-discuss, and the only real source for meaty WP support, with the
> forums
> relegated to the complete newbie and sploggers.
>
>
> Please don't flame me too hard, as I do have a bit of a sunburn, as well
> as
> am still stinging from being called a "maladjusted geek"...
>
> Michael
>
> (miklb)
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