2013/3/1 Andun Sameera andunslg@gmail.com:

Hi All,

I am a final year undergraduate who is willing to participate in GSOC 2013. Because of my earlier experience and future interests, it will great if I can do a project in phpMyAdmin. So read the ideas wiki provided by you. I am specially interested in these ideas,

Refactoring: Designer/schema integration Refactoring: SQL executor, Column's structure manipulation Refactoring: Server view

Can you provide me further steps to continue to work in these ideas?

Also If I talk about myself a bit, I had the chance to complete my software engineering internship at WSO2 Lanka Pvt Ltd(www.wso2.com), which is a leading middle-ware solutions development company. Since they are using lot of open source projects, had many chances to get a good exposure to the projects and there code-bases. Also I have did lot of projects in developing those FOSS products. You can find more about those from my LinkedIn profile - lk.linkedin.com/pub/andun-s-l-gunawardana/34/646/703/ or from my blog http://www.insightforfuture.blogspot.com/

Specially I want highlight the project Streaming XPath Parser for WSO2 ESB (http://wso2.org/library/articles/2013/01/streaming-xpath-parser-wso2-esb) which mainly built on top of AXIOM and Data Streams. This implementation provides a high performance XPath parser to the ESB.

Also the project of Entitlement Servlet Filter implementation for WSO2 Application Server. http://wso2.org/library/tutorials/2012/12/providing-xacml-fine-grained-autho...

So I think the above highlighted experiences makes me a good candidate to do a project in GSOC.

Thanks & Regards

Hi Andun,

Thanks for your interest in GSoC. To get you started, you should have a look at the Applicant Guide [0] on our wiki. It will tell you to submit a few patches fixing bugs or adding small features to get you familiar with the codebase of phpMyAdmin. You can also participate in the contest [1] that is running at the moment, those patches will be taken into account when you apply for a project.

With regards to the ideas you are interested in, I suggest you read about Refactoring [2], and have look at the current code to get familiar and try to find things you can refactor.

[0] http://wiki.phpmyadmin.net/pma/GSoC_2013_Applicant_Guide [1] http://www.phpmyadmin.net/home_page/contest.php [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_refactoring