It’s official (and has been for a few days, I’m a little behind schedule), the 15 students selected to work on WordPress this summer as part of the Google Summer of Code have been announced. The lineup is pretty great. There are some names on the list that will be familiar to those who are already involved in the WordPress development community. Andrew Nacin for example was given WordPress core commit access in February. Also,
Justin Shreve and Daryl Koopersmith both participated in last year’s GSoC (quite successfully).
This year there are a lot of great students and projects. I’m definitely excited to see what happens with all of them. However, I’m most excited about the student that I’m going to be mentoring. Jon Stacey is going to be implementing stream wrappers into the WordPress file API. He did a similar project for Drupal as part of GSoC last year, and this year we were able to woo him over to WordPress.
Not only does the project have great potential, but since stream wrappers were introduced in PHP 5, it will help push WordPress toward PHP 5 as a minimum requirement (which I’m all for). So good luck to Jon and all the 2010 GSoC students.
Thank you so much for posting this! Great article… I have a budding PHP kiddo of my own and am so proud to see what opportunities they get for the hard work (and fun) they do! :)
Sincerely,
CyndiSmith (@webvixn)
whoa … this would an awesome event .. thanks for sharing ..
Google always providing something very new and different, And you have done great job to describe it.Good going dear.
Having wordpress in php5 would be a really nice thing.
Having wordpress in php5 would be a really nice thing
Version 3.2, which is expected the first quarter of 2011, will require PHP 5.2+. The whole codebase won’t be rewritten all at once, but over time sections will be redone using PHP 5.
I’ve been using WordPress for my client websites for a little over a year now and I couldn’t be more happy with the amount of customization control I have. Looking forward to the PHP 5 update and all the other great stuff WordPress is putting out there!