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?
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