“Sorry, I’ll provide a patch after I graduate. I don’t have the time at the moment.” writes Jacob Santos aka darkdragon, in WordPress bug ticket #5860 Activating plugin that uses upgrade functions (dbDelta) fails , and I think he was serious. Reading that put a big smile on my face!
During development of WordPress 2.3 and since, Jacob has emerged as a core contributor to WordPress development. WordPress 2.5 will be as much his as anyone’s. He has:
- Almost single handedly added phpdoc inline documentation to WordPress code, making it much more friendly to people just getting started with WordPress development.
- Constantly triaging WordPress bug reports.
- A lot of insights into the works and optimizations of PHP
- WordPress Function Documentation Progress
Pretty sweet huh. Jacob is a WordPress Hero and inspires me every day!