API: being worked on iteratively! (If my memory doesn't fail me, which is entirely possible with my various meds changes lately, creating posts is working but editing, commenting, reading page, etc, are all in various stages of flux or not yet implemented.) Our biggest bottleneck on large projects has always been code review, because it's hard for the reviewer to budget out a chunk of time to sit down and do a thorough review, and our automated test coverage is ... well, automated testing sure is a thing that exists, yup, except it mostly happens elsewhere. (I'm being kind of facetious, but only kinda; our test coverage is pretty sporadic, for a while running the tests could muck up your dev environment db pretty badly, and it's hard to properly test a lot of the functionality of the site without having a test db with users, relationships, and sometimes some content, which we don't have formalized and people make ad-hoc versions as they're working on stuff.)
So, some of the things we could use, dev-wise: somebody to straighten out the clusterfuck that is our automated test framework, somebody to write tests for stuff that doesn't have them already, somebody who really likes doing code review, someone who enjoys doing steady incremental stuff like converting existing pages from the shambling-horror-from-the-depths-of-internet-history coding into our modern MVC/templating system since the conversion project has been ongoing for ages now. Process-wise, we have perpetually been in need of good designers, both UI/UX design and "make this layout look pretty", ideally also capable of some light frontend/conversion/implementation work but hell, we'd take wireframes for some of the stuff like image hosting frontend, since a good designer would definitely be able to improve things.
And, I mean, I'll be honest that a big problem is that Mark and I have been really curtailed in our DW time lately, he because of day job and RL explosions, me because of disability related problems. (I'll spare you the whining, but I've spent a lot of the last year flat on my back in bed, sigh.) Jen's been amazing in trying to make up for it, to the point where it really it isn't at all fair to her, but it has definitely been a factor. I'm hoping that I'll be able to do more soon, but that will all depend on whether this latest series of shots will actually help fix my spine or whether I'm going to have to have some vertebrae fused. :(
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So, some of the things we could use, dev-wise: somebody to straighten out the clusterfuck that is our automated test framework, somebody to write tests for stuff that doesn't have them already, somebody who really likes doing code review, someone who enjoys doing steady incremental stuff like converting existing pages from the shambling-horror-from-the-depths-of-internet-history coding into our modern MVC/templating system since the conversion project has been ongoing for ages now. Process-wise, we have perpetually been in need of good designers, both UI/UX design and "make this layout look pretty", ideally also capable of some light frontend/conversion/implementation work but hell, we'd take wireframes for some of the stuff like image hosting frontend, since a good designer would definitely be able to improve things.
And, I mean, I'll be honest that a big problem is that Mark and I have been really curtailed in our DW time lately, he because of day job and RL explosions, me because of disability related problems. (I'll spare you the whining, but I've spent a lot of the last year flat on my back in bed, sigh.) Jen's been amazing in trying to make up for it, to the point where it really it isn't at all fair to her, but it has definitely been a factor. I'm hoping that I'll be able to do more soon, but that will all depend on whether this latest series of shots will actually help fix my spine or whether I'm going to have to have some vertebrae fused. :(
This thread from previous news post may also interest you, though I'm pretty sure you already know a lot of it!