split up hacking howto in wiki

[Will Kahn-Greene]

The hacking howto in the wiki is too big and covers too many different things. It's better to break it up into smaller topics which are easier to link to.

Action items:

1. figure out how to break it up
2. break it up

The sooner this gets done, the better.

[Shawn Khan]

I am interested in helping out with this ticket. Willkg when you are ready to discuss this please let me know.

[Christopher Allan Webber]

If you're a new programmer, where does everything fit? We should have a nice guide to this!

One thing we need is a tutorial of sorts for programmers.

This guide should describe just very generally:

• the routing
• the views
• the templates
• the forms
• the database/models

... and point to other pages for more specific information :)

(A good strategy might be to do a "walkthrough" of one of the existing, clearly developed and simple views, from start to finish, which uses all these pieces?)

I'm not sure if that should be its own ticket, since it's new content. Probably yes?

[Will Kahn-Greene]

Chris: I think that should get spun out as a separate task. This issue is more about restructuring the existing hacking howto content into something better. That doesn't preclude adding additional content, but I don't think additional content should be under the domain of this issue. My 0.02.

I'm traveling for the next week and a half and don't have time to work on this until I get back. If when I get back it hasn't gone anywhere, I'll help out then.

[Christopher Allan Webber]

Okay, I agree.. I originally started to write that up as another task but then worried that this would be upsettingly creating too many related documentation tickets. Thanks for weighing in.

http://bugs.foocorp.net/issues/579 made a new ticket :)

[Shawn Khan]

As Requested by paroneayea on IRC.

[Will Kahn-Greene]

The original url for this bug was ​http://bugs.foocorp.net/issues/566 .
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