Overview
The phpMyAdmin Project is looking for a full-time or part-time developer
to assist in development, including bug fixing and refactoring.
Work plan
The ideal candidate will dynamically balance their workload based on
outstanding issues and priority, but is anticipated to break down to
these percentages (in priority order of what's most important to least
important):
Security maintenance (5%)
Bug fixing and issue assessment (45%)
Code base improvement like refactoring and writing unit tests (45%)
Implementation of new features (5%)
Work conditions
The Developer shall publish a weekly blog post about his/her work to
the phpMyAdmin community.
The Developer shall send a monthly invoice to the Software Freedom
Conservancy for the work done during that month.
All work produced by the Developer is to be licensed under "GPLv2 or
later".
This is an independent contractor position: the Developer will be
responsible for his/her own equipment and expenses.
The Candidate
The candidate will be able to demonstrate a very good knowledge of
phpMyAdmin's code base. In addition, we expect excellent skills in all
of the technologies used by phpMyAdmin (PHP, HTML, JavaScript, jQuery,
CSS, MySQL) and excellent communication skills.
Applying
Candidates should submit their proposal (including their CV,
availability, and financial terms) to: pmadeveloper(a)sfconservancy.org.
The deadline for this initial round of proposals is 2016-06-30.
