[Phpmyadmin-devel] Roadmap? Feature plans for PMA 3.0?

[Marc Delisle]

Michal Čihař a écrit:

> Hi all
> 
> On 15.04.2004 12:23 +0200, Garvin Hicking wrote:
> 
>>>Does a roadmap for phpMyAdmin exist or has anyone feature plans for
>>>phpMyAdmin 3.0?
>>
>>I don't know of an "official" MasterPlan. But mine would be (sorted by priority):
> 
> 
> There is IMO none such plan...

Hi all,
This is currently no plan. Here are a few ideas about the roadmap; please do
not think I am being negative here...

- we currently have a low manpower. Any plan will have to take this into account,
even though I agree that the release of 3.0 can attract some other developers

- we have a very big features requests list; some day we will have to deal with it

- bug fixing takes a lot of time (but I agree that a part of this could be avoided
with some structural changes in the code)

- we discussed some plans for version 3.0 more that a year ago, I refer you to
those discussions

- I would concentrate now for the release of 2.6.0.

> 
> 
>>- Get sessions to work, to get around POST/GETing the SQL query or the resultset
>>data from page to page. This is the reason for many timeout/browser problems
>>when editing records
> 
> 
> This is definitely needed for long time and we should finally focus on
> this.

I agree.
> 
> 
>>- Have DB-stored configuration with user-management, where a PMA user can tweak
>>his own settings regarding colors, maxrows, sql query window et al
> 
> 
> This would be nice, but not much needed...

I think this is needed a lot. On multi-user installations, lots of parameters are
fixed in the config file, but the decision should be in the hands of users.
I even find myself in need to change something in the middle of my work session!

> 
> 
>>- Have a nice installer
> 
> 
> I'd give this higher priority than db stored configuration.

I agree for higher priority, partly because it's an easier job to do ;)
> 
> 
>>- Support transactions and other MySQL 5 features
> 
> 
> This should have higher pririty as phpMyAdmin 3.0 will come probably in
> time MySQL 5 will be ready...

I did not study this enough to have an opinion. I always wondered how to
deal with transactions, give the stateless nature of HTTP.
> 
> 
>>- After that is all done, make PMA work on all OpenSource RDBMS ;)
> 
> 
> Is this really doable? We're working with database on very low level and
> this would need complete rewrite...

Not before phpMyAdmin 4.0 please!
> 
> - Split out all styles from html (color=, style=, ...) to external css
>   file.
> 
I agree for this one. I got a proposition from a designer about this.

Marc