[wp-hackers] Code reviews for plugins?

[Chip Bennett]

I am a very-much-still-learning plugin developer/contributor. I've tried to
use best practices, to the best of my ability - but would welcome any and
all review/criticism of my plugins.

So, I'll be interested to see what becomes of this discussion, and to avail
myself of whatever that might be.

Chip

On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 2:44 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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