[wp-hackers] Google Summer of Code 2008

[Computer Guru]

On 2/26/08, Jacob Santos <wordpress at santosj.name> wrote:
> Lloyd Budd wrote:
>  > On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 11:09 AM, Ronald Heft <ron at cavemonkey50.com> wrote:
>  >
>  >> I noticed that today Google announced they will be running the Summer of
>  >>  Code again in 2008: http://code.google.com/soc/2008/. Does WordPress plan
>  >>  on applying to participate again this year? I hope so. I'm really looking
>  >>  forward to this year's Summer of Code and hope to improve upon last year.
>  >>
>  >
>  > Most definitely. It is *completely* dependent on people volunteering
>  > to mentor though -- and hopefully less strong arming from me this year
>  > ;-)
>  >
>  > If you are interesting in volunteering as a mentor please share with
>  > us in this thread your interest and for now just the broad area of
>  > expertise / interest for mentoring.
>  >
>  >
>  > Thank you,
>  >
>
>
> I would rather be a student, since I'm in school and I don't have too
>  much experience with WordPress. Of course, I do know about 20-30% of the
>  code base and can easily read code to determine the purpose and follow
>  the path and figure the outcome.
>
>  Dude, totally could rewrite major portions of the code base to use
>  DOMXML and DOM since the requirements have increased to 4.3. You could
>  use that as one of the projects. You would need a wrapper to be
>  compatible with both DOMXML and DOM, since DOMXML is PHP 4.3.x to PHP
>  4.4.x and DOM is PHP 5+ only. If you don't realize by now, you can't use
>  both at the same time, or you can only use one or the other. Therefore
>  you will have to create something that uses either DOMXML or DOM
>  depending on the PHP version.
>
>  The advantages of this, would be quicker parsing of XML and
>  (well-formed) XHTML. Less bug prone WordPress to WordPress
>  Exporter/Importer not dependent on strict formatting standards and
>  generally just less bug prone. Would also be totally sweet.
>
>
>  --
>
>  Jacob Santos
>
>  http://www.santosj.name - blog
>  http://funcdoc.wordpress.com - WordPress Documentation Blog/Guide Licensed under GPLv2
>
>  Also known as darkdragon and santosj on WP trac.
>
>
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I'm in school too, but I have no idea if I'll have time come Summer....