[wp-hackers] Wordpress Project GSOC '14

Awais Imran me at awaisimran.com
Mon Mar 17 18:30:42 UTC 2014


Hey Eric and Aarushi,

Awais Imran here (IRC: waisybabu). I was reading the conversation 
between you, and Aarushi. I am interested in working on the WordPress 
for Android app as well. For now, I am considering if I should work on 
either 'Mobile In-App Search for Posts, Pages, and Comments' or 'View 
Comments by Post', or both.

I have beginner-level experience with Android development, having 
co-developed a popular screenshot utility called 'ShotDrop'. It has 
received over 25,000+ downloads on the Play Store, so far. I do not 
consider myself an expert, but I am a quick, self-motivated learner.

What would you recommend for me to do?
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>     1. GSOC 2014 idea: Media categories in Core (Adam Czyszczo?)
>     2. Re: GSOC 2014 idea: Media categories in Core (Frank Bueltge)
>     3. Re: Wordpress GSoC idea: Mobile In-app Search for Posts,
>        Pages, Comments (Eric Johnson)
>     4. Re: Wordpress Project GSOC '14 (Eric Johnson)
>     5. Re: GSOC 2014 idea: Media categories in Core (Ian Dunn)
>     6. generate_rewrite_rules help (BenderisGreat)
>     7. Re: Wordpress Project GSOC '14 (Aarushi Karnany)
>     8. Re: Wordpress Project GSOC '14 (Eric Johnson)
>     9. Re: GSoC proposal feedback request (SupportPress as a plugin)
>        (Ian Dunn)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2014 14:02:44 +0100
> From: Adam Czyszczo?<adam.czyszczon at gmail.com>
> To: wp-hackers at lists.automattic.com
> Subject: [wp-hackers] GSOC 2014 idea: Media categories in Core
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> Hi,
>
> I'm new to the Wordpress Community but I've already worked with Wordpress
> for some time. I would like to contribute to the community and take part in
> GSOC 2014.
>
> My idea is to add categorization to the Media Library. This means that when
> you add files, you can select category for them. The category can be
> selected from predefined categories list, just like it is currently done
> when you add posts. Moreover, if you checked "Organize my uploads into
> category folders" your media files will be stored in category folders,
> which is great. Finally, when you add media files to your post or page you
> can browse media by categories so you don't have to browse through
> thousands of not related images to find a particular one.
>
> Now you would probably say that there are plugins which can do that. This
> is true but those plugins, despite the fact that they look ugly, they
> always miss something. For example, even if you find a plugin that allows
> you to categorize media properly, still you won't be able to browse with
> categories when adding media files to posts/pages or to browse with
> categories when making a gallery. Moreover, you will have to move you media
> files to created category folders manually. In other words -- media
> categorization must be in the core :)
>
> I would like to ask for your opinion concerning this idea. Do you think it
> qualifies for GSOC 2014?
>
> Best regards,
> Adam
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 2
> Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2014 14:24:06 +0100
> From: Frank Bueltge<frank at bueltge.de>
> To: wp-hackers at lists.automattic.com
> Subject: Re: [wp-hackers] GSOC 2014 idea: Media categories in Core
> Message-ID:
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>
> maybe this help you:
> http://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/76720/how-to-use-taxonomies-on-attachments-with-the-new-media-library
>
>
> On Mon, Mar 17, 2014 at 2:02 PM, Adam Czyszczo?<adam.czyszczon at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm new to the Wordpress Community but I've already worked with Wordpress
>> for some time. I would like to contribute to the community and take part in
>> GSOC 2014.
>>
>> My idea is to add categorization to the Media Library. This means that when
>> you add files, you can select category for them. The category can be
>> selected from predefined categories list, just like it is currently done
>> when you add posts. Moreover, if you checked "Organize my uploads into
>> category folders" your media files will be stored in category folders,
>> which is great. Finally, when you add media files to your post or page you
>> can browse media by categories so you don't have to browse through
>> thousands of not related images to find a particular one.
>>
>> Now you would probably say that there are plugins which can do that. This
>> is true but those plugins, despite the fact that they look ugly, they
>> always miss something. For example, even if you find a plugin that allows
>> you to categorize media properly, still you won't be able to browse with
>> categories when adding media files to posts/pages or to browse with
>> categories when making a gallery. Moreover, you will have to move you media
>> files to created category folders manually. In other words -- media
>> categorization must be in the core :)
>>
>> I would like to ask for your opinion concerning this idea. Do you think it
>> qualifies for GSOC 2014?
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Adam
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> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 3
> Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2014 11:02:24 -0500
> From: Eric Johnson<eric at automattic.com>
> To: wp-hackers at lists.automattic.com
> Subject: Re: [wp-hackers] Wordpress GSoC idea: Mobile In-app Search
> 	for Posts, Pages, Comments
> Message-ID:<53271C90.5080509 at automattic.com>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
>
> Hi Shachar,
>
> The search can be local to what is cached in the app.
>
> Feel free to stop by #wordpress-mobile in freenode IRC and chat with
> some of the app devs if you have questions. :)
>
> Cheers,
> Eric
>
> On 3/16/14, 11:52 AM, Shachar Tal wrote:
>> I'm working on my proposal for GSoC 2014, I decided to take the search
>> posts and pages<https://codex.wordpress.org/GSoC2014#Mobile_In-app_Search_for_Posts.2C_Pages.2C_Comments>idea
>> for the iOS app.
>>
>>   From UX prospective, how the user should enter to search mode:
>> 1) From button inside the Me viewControllr navigation bar.
>> 2) Cell inside the Me tabelView where Posts, Pages, Comment, etc.
>>
>> Does the search is supposed to be local on the result from server, Or send
>> request to WP server.
>>
>> If is a server request, I'm trying to investigate the API request and
>> response for receiving the search result of posts and pages.
>>
>> For now I figure that the iOS app use XML-RPC protocol to communicate with
>> wordpress server.
>>
>>   From the Blog.h object in the iOS app it uses the API call to get the post
>> list is "wp.getPostFormats". In the documentation I didn't find how to
>> filter the result by search string.
>>
>> I read somewhere that WP XML-RPC have can run WP_Query but i didn't
>> understand how.
>>
>> Could you refer me to information for how should I implement get posts list
>> filtered by search string?
>> Thanks
>>
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 4
> Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2014 11:11:19 -0500
> From: Eric Johnson<eric at automattic.com>
> To: wp-hackers at lists.automattic.com
> Subject: Re: [wp-hackers] Wordpress Project GSOC '14
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>
> Hi Aarushi,
>
> The idea behind this project is it would be great if there was a way for
> a user to view all the comments for a particular post, perhaps as a list
> on some kind of post detail screen.  Ideally a user would be able to
> view, moderate, reply, and edit those comments, just as they would from
> the existing comments feature in the Android and iOS apps.  If its
> helpful, WordPress for Windows Phone already has this functionality.
>
> For a GSoC project, you'd probably want to pick either iOS or Android,
> but not both.
>
> You're also welcome to come chat with GSoC mentors in #wordpress-gsoc
> and with the mobile devs in #wordpress-mobile in IRC on freenode.net.
>
> Cheers,
> Eric
>
>
> On 3/16/14, 11:38 AM, Aarushi Karnany wrote:
>> View Comments by Post in WordPress for iOS and Android - I was interested
>> in this project offered by wordpress and I would like to know, how to go
>> further about it. I'd really appreciate if someone could guide me.
>>
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 5
> Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2014 09:22:11 -0700
> From: Ian Dunn<ian at iandunn.name>
> To: wp-hackers at lists.automattic.com
> Subject: Re: [wp-hackers] GSOC 2014 idea: Media categories in Core
> Message-ID:<53272133.7020007 at iandunn.name>
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>
> On 3/17/14, 6:02 AM, Adam Czyszczo? wrote:
>> My idea is to add categorization to the Media Library.
>
> Hi Adam, how long do you think it would take to create a plugin with
> that functionality? The project needs to be big enough to fill ~3 months.
>
>
>
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>
> Message: 6
> Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2014 09:44:15 -0700 (PDT)
> From: BenderisGreat<greglancaster71 at gmail.com>
> To: wp-hackers at lists.automattic.com
> Subject: [wp-hackers] generate_rewrite_rules help
> Message-ID:<1395074655004-43717.post at n5.nabble.com>
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>
> I have been using add_rewrite_rule() for a long time, but now I am in a place
> where I am rewriting about a dozen urls.  Looking for a simpler solution, I
> came upon  generate_rewrite_rules
> <https://codex.wordpress.org/Plugin_API/Action_Reference/generate_rewrite_rules>
> but the documentation is sparse.
>
> Has anyone here made use of this action?  If so, could you share the what
> the proper application is, and any example code you have showing its proper
> use?
>
>
>
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> Message: 7
> Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2014 22:18:50 +0530
> From: Aarushi Karnany<karnany26 at gmail.com>
> To: wp-hackers at lists.automattic.com
> Subject: Re: [wp-hackers] Wordpress Project GSOC '14
> Message-ID:
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>
> Okay, so let's say if I were to pick up Android, how should I go on about
> it? And what are the prerequisite skills for doing this project? And where
> should I start from?
>
>
> On Mon, Mar 17, 2014 at 9:41 PM, Eric Johnson<eric at automattic.com>  wrote:
>
>> Hi Aarushi,
>>
>> The idea behind this project is it would be great if there was a way for a
>> user to view all the comments for a particular post, perhaps as a list on
>> some kind of post detail screen.  Ideally a user would be able to view,
>> moderate, reply, and edit those comments, just as they would from the
>> existing comments feature in the Android and iOS apps.  If its helpful,
>> WordPress for Windows Phone already has this functionality.
>>
>> For a GSoC project, you'd probably want to pick either iOS or Android, but
>> not both.
>>
>> You're also welcome to come chat with GSoC mentors in #wordpress-gsoc and
>> with the mobile devs in #wordpress-mobile in IRC on freenode.net.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Eric
>>
>>
>>
>> On 3/16/14, 11:38 AM, Aarushi Karnany wrote:
>>
>>> View Comments by Post in WordPress for iOS and Android - I was interested
>>> in this project offered by wordpress and I would like to know, how to go
>>> further about it. I'd really appreciate if someone could guide me.
>>>
>>>
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Awais Imran
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