Exit, stage left

[xela]

I've had a dreamwidth account since the early days. I know the people who run DW and know that they're the real deal. But not until the new user agreement did LJ's new Russian overlords annoy me enough to overcome the necessary activation energy to fully migrate. Which, it turns out, is dead simple once you actually do it. Though you have to agree to the new LJ user agreement whose English translation isn't binding for DW to import your journal. Anyway, I'm here now. And I think I'm even likely to be posting fairly regularly.

Comments

[kareila]

Glad to have you here!

[xela]

Good to be here. Love what you've done with the place :^)

Speaking of which:  I'm noticing a lot of my friends migrating here recently too, so I expect DW will come up more often in conversation. Most will no doubt have grumbles, bugs, or feature ideas — which they'd be entirely capable of dealing with themselves — and glad to — with the right motivation and guidance. I'll certainly encourage those with less aversion to Perl than I to volunteer. My natural inclination would be to say "You should drop Kareila a note. Tell her 'xela sent me.'" Or is there a canonical entry point for volunteers you'd rather I direct them to?

[kareila]

We try not to provide a single path to involvement, since each person brings different experiences and preferences to the table.

If they just want to report a bug, the best way to do that is to open a support request with the details: http://www.dreamwidth.org/support/submit

Or if they have a suggested improvement / feature request: http://www.dreamwidth.org/site/suggest

But if they want to get involved in development, the only hard requirement is a Github account. Our main repository is http://github.com/dreamwidth/dw-free and our open issues are tracked there. We have a wiki at http://wiki.dreamwidth.net that we try to keep updated with installation documentation and howtos. The primary archive of developer communication is dw_dev, and we also have IRC channels on freenode.