GSoC 2011 is ON

Hi folks!

The bonding period has finished. During this time, I contacted my mentors, Jehan and Andreas, to discuss more about our great project. If you don't remember, in this GSoC, we will develop a new Plugin Architecture for phpPgAdmin.

Well, I started up my development environment, with all PostgreSQL versions. I will work with:

• PostgreSQL 7.4 -> 9.1 beta
• PHP 5.3
• GNU/Linux Ubuntu 10.04
• GIT 1.7
• Apache 2
• jEdit to code

I also created a script to install all the PostgreSQL, if for any reason, I have to create a new development environment. We have just 3 months to do this job, so, we cannot have problems ;)

My mentors teach me how to use the Selenium to make tests. I thought it amazing, perhaps, I had a different point of view about Selenium stuff. With a simple action, I can make regression tests, to check what I am doing will work with all PostgreSQL versions. It's very nice, don't you agree?

More things that they teach me were about how write good logs for my commits. I confess that using Subversion I didn't make comments in my commits, but it's very important. And, day by day, I am getting more knowledge using GIT, and GitHub. By the way, my phpPgAdmin fork can be found here.

I also learned a lot about IRC abbreviations, like IIRC, AFAIK, *g*, re, etc...

Well, see you on other post guys :-)

GSoC 2011 - Bonding period

Hello people

The GSoC 2011 has begun. Until May 22 is the bonding period. In this time, the students should contact their organizations and mentors to talk about their projects.

This year I will have two mentors to help me accomplish the project, Mr. Jehan and Mr. Andreas. They are helping me a lot. Jehan teach me how use the GitHub, and integrate it with our IRC channel (irc.freenode.net #phppgadmin). Every time I push something to my phppgadmin fork, the GitHub send a message by IRC with informations about it. I liked a lot this feature.

According to my activities, the first task is to drop the current plugin architecture. It is deprecated, and the only ppa plugin has a lot of intrusive code inside phppgadmin. Jehan teach me how use branches with GIT, I have already created a branch and pushed it to my phppgadmin fork. When Jehan and Andreas validate my patch, I will merge it with my main line of work. And after, I will pull to main phppgadmin project.

Now I am working on the basic plugin structure. I hope to finish it on time, and start working on other subjects :-)

That's it for now people, see you soon...