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