Hey,<br><br>On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 6:57 PM, Dieter Adriaenssens <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dieter.adriaenssens@gmail.com">dieter.adriaenssens@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
Hi Michael,<br>
<br>
Thanks for your interest in phpMyAdmin GSoC.<br>
<br>
2011/3/31 Michael Bundy <<a href="mailto:michaeltbundy@gmail.com">michaeltbundy@gmail.com</a>>:<br>
<div class="im">> Hello,<br>
><br>
> I'm a second year CS and EE at Bristol University, England.<br>
><br>
> I have exams until the 17th of June. I know officially students are meant to<br>
> start on the 23rd of May, and I would be willing to make a start then, but<br>
> since I have exams around that period, I wouldn't be able to work on it full<br>
> time until the 17th. Would this be a problem?<br>
<br>
</div>So that's about 3 weeks. It depends on how much you can do before,<br>
after and during your examens. Catching up 3 weeks of full-time (40<br>
hours/week) development work, might be hard, but I guess you can best<br>
decide if you will be able to do it.<br></blockquote><div><br>Yeah. I could probably fit about 8-12 days of work in, so it shouldn't be too bad. My exams are quite spaced out this year which is quite nice, just means I have a long exam period.<br>
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<div><div class="h5"><br>
><br>
> phpMyAdmin OOP<br>
> This seems like a massive job, as it'd be rewritting the whole of PMA. Would<br>
> there be any opposition to using a framework such as codeigniter?<br>
> I guess the main question is, would it use none of the old code until it is<br>
> finished, or would it there be a period where it would be OOP and the old<br>
> procedural stuff?<br>
<br>
</div></div>Turning phpMyAdmin into OOP is huge, so that's why it's not in the<br>
scope of one GSoC project to rewrite everything. The idea is to<br>
rewrite small parts of the existing code, and gradually evolving to a<br>
more OOP phpMyAdmin.<br>
<br>
No frameworks, we will just stick to OOP and design patterns.<br></blockquote><div><br>Ahh, okay. I understand. Makes sense. I just wanted to double check.<br> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im"><br>
> An argument against CI is that people would have to learn how to use CI. But<br>
> I'd argue that having an arbitrary way of doing it would be more time<br>
> consuming to learn, and people are likely to know how to use CI, or<br>
> something similar anyway.<br>
> Would it be worth splitting this down into a number of student projects,<br>
> each focusing on a particular part?<br>
<br>
</div>Basically there is one OOP project during this GSoC, so we will choose<br>
the best proposal.<br>
<div class="im"><br>
> I'd ultimately like to do this, though before I think about it further, I'd<br>
> want to know whether I could use a framework, or if it would need to be<br>
> from scratch.<br>
><br>
> Thank you,<br>
> Mike<br>
><br>
<br>
</div>Good luck with GSoC and with submitting your proposal.<br>
Please keep in mind that you will need to submit a patch solving a bug<br>
or a feature request, as is mentioned in the 2nd point of the GSoC<br>
Applicant Guide :<br>
<a href="http://wiki.phpmyadmin.net/pma/GSoC_2011_Applicant_Guide" target="_blank">http://wiki.phpmyadmin.net/pma/GSoC_2011_Applicant_Guide</a><br>
<br></blockquote><div><br>Yeah. I saw that. I'm going to do some from tomorrow. I'll try a do a AJAX related feature request, and another OOP related one.<br>I guess I should've helped out in the past =\<br> </div>
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Kind regards,<br>
<br>
Dieter<br></blockquote><div><br>Thank you,<br>Mike<br></div></div>