[Phpmyadmin-devel] Codebase Improvements: OOP and refactoring

[Amar Budhiraja]

On Sat, Feb 21, 2015 at 8:30 PM, Atul Pratap Singh <
atulpratapsingh05 at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 21 February 2015 at 19:47, Amar Budhiraja <amar.budhiraja1 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> On Sat, Feb 21, 2015 at 7:33 PM, Atul Pratap Singh <
>> atulpratapsingh05 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On 21 Feb 2015 19:19, "Isaac Bennetch" <bennetch at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> >
>>> > Hi Amar,
>>> >
>>> > On 2/21/15 12:56 AM, Amar Budhiraja wrote:
>>> > > Hi,
>>> > > I am a junior undergraduate student in India and I wanted to start in
>>> > > the direction of the project Codebase Improvements: OOP and
>>> refactoring.
>>> > >
>>> > > I have done a similar project for a Software Engineering course in my
>>> > > own university where I worked on a "working" Teaching Fellows
>>> > > Applications portal. The portal was built using an MVC framework:
>>> > > web2py. The goal of the project was to refactor the entire system to
>>> > > meet code standards and divide the codebase into logical components
>>> and
>>> > > classes to make it more readable and easy to extend.
>>> > >
>>> > > Relevant to the project, my skill set includes PHP, HTML/CSS and JS.
>>> I
>>> > > have with codeigniter framework to develop a project which gave a
>>> good
>>> > > experience of OBJECT ORIENTED PHP as well.
>>> > >
>>> > > I am fairly new to open source development and I would highly
>>> appreciate
>>> > > if someone could give me directions as to where should I start.
>>> >
>>> > Welcome. Have you seen
>>> > https://wiki.phpmyadmin.net/pma/Category:Google_Summer_of_Code_2015 ?
>>>
>>> Plus, relevant the OOPing idea, you may want to take time to look into
>>> the codebase and try contributing through pull requests some proof of
>>> concept, initial refactoring or OOPing.
>>>
>> I was looking in the same direction in the codebase. However, is there
>> any particular code fragment that may be, you would like to assign to me.
>> May be something that has relatively lesser dependencies to help me get
>> started?
>>
>>
>>>  Maybe have a look at Server=>Status component related scripts which
> appear relatively less dependent to me..
>

Thank you for the pointer.

> About broader MVC movement, there has been some initial discussion on a
>>> thread in this mailing, as of now just about the suitable framework, so you
>>> may want to see that as well if you plan to propose a MVC directed idea..
>>>
>>
>> I just read through the archives about the idea. From what I gather, I
>> think, it will most suitable to come up with some sort of architectural
>> design first, may be UML and then refactor the codebase on those guidelines
>> and then finally integrate it as an MVC architecture. However, it sounds
>> like it may take a little while.
>>
>>> Sure, coming up initially with a high level architectural design will
> help directing the refactoring effort in right direction. If you wish, we
> welcome initiating any such design.. Also, there seems to be a consensus so
> far that we will need to use an existing framework to help enforce MVC
> migration. Did you mean evolving the codebase incrementally without a
> framework or you meant going for a framework? Anyway, it will be a near
> complete rewrite of the system.
>

I believe we have a design for the system, doing refactoring based on that
would result in a much more quality code, compared to refactoring
independent modules without having a proper design.
Regarding MVC, I was talking about using an open-source MVC framework for
the task that is build upon OOPs , may be codeigniter or cakephp.


> And as it requires broader inputs and discussion from developer community,
> you may want to post your ideas on the earlier ongoing thread about MVC.
>

I'll post my ideas to the respective list as well.



>
>
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> Atul Pratap Singh
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>
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Sincerely,
Amar
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