[Phpmyadmin-devel] New Developer (me)

[about_me] My name is Korakot Chaovavanich, age 24 (about average :> ). I am working as an assistant researcher at a government organization (NECTEC- www.nectec.or.th) in the Open Source Project to promote the use/development of Open Source Software in Thailand. (best suit for for-fun programmer like me) I have about 2-year experience in Perl, PHP/MySql, 4-year in HTML and Javascript. When I first met phpMyAdmin, I found it to be the essensial tool I use almost all the time. Now I wish it easier to use than Access, even with it web-interface limitation. So comes my feature request (XXXXX), please check it initial implimentation (just upload).. I guess you all must like it. I can speak only in english and thai(th), so please use only english (7-bin ascii :>)... Now I don't know how to spell or pronounce names of our 2 project admins... Oliver/Looc ? My website ? not update for 3 years... My resume? only in thai, sorry.. My picture... ok.. in 1998, still quite cute http://geocities.com/korakot2/grad/stand.JPG This is actually my first time as developer in an international team of OSS. But I have help submit patch for sourceforce i18n (language auto-detect and message translation). I also convert mysql help to MS htmlhelp format. (but they don't accept it to be distributed on their mysql website) [mysql_dev] Forgive me if I put too many issues in one single email. I suggest that we have an agreement on development and set up a page for development guideline (on phpmyadmin.sourceforge.net or on project doc page) Please see a good example in SourceForge doc page. Now there are too many channels to discuss the development discussion. Should a feature be discuss in Feature Tracker or Developer Mailinglist or Forum or personal(1-1) email? We could discuss it in mailing list first and post some summary in Feature Tracker. My 2 examples are i18n and permission-checking. Looc discuss i18n with me using 1-1 mail (not respond yet) and now he has commit it to CVS. I think we should discuss first on dev-mail or forum before commit. According to XP (extreme programming), we should have 2 developers looking at the code togeter before commit. (<looc> sorry for not promptly respone mail) I have also suggested a guideline for interface design in the Feature Request. (maybe a wrong place) This guide (checking for action permission before showing action link/button) could result in many features (so I submit it there). But I could have sent it here instead. Other issues (guideline for development) that we must decide are - should we go for php4 or still 100% support php3? - By permission checking, we could check the mysql version and decide to provide some features or not based on version number (eg. Full-text search on 3.23.3?+ on MYISAM table type) - translation could be done with 3 approach, which one should we use (define(), array, or gettext) ? - browser support and javascript. (eg. my inplace-edit feature using DOM scripting) We must support IE, Moz,Konq. Should we try support NN4/Opera DHTML as well? Some question on currest source in CVS - I see the config file has change the config vars of user/password/onlydb. I am afraid this would affect the use of new user who could once drop and run phpmyadmin without editing anything (user=root, no-password/no-onlydb). - The language detection code is still not pretty. The variable convention such as $notFound and function pmaLangDetect is not consistent with the rest of php. This is one reason I suggest we have a coding guideline (like sourceforge's) Finally, Thank you so much for bring the phpmyadmin development to sourceforge. I plan to contribute more feature request :> , ok.. more code as well. And don't forget to check my in-place edit code in feature request page. Korakot Chaovavanich __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/