2010 02_Meeting_(FOSDEM)

Topic to discuss on developer meeting at FOSDEM 2010. Feel free to add topics with your name.

From Subversion to Git

I already opened this topic on devel mailing list, but with no clear outcome.

--Nijel 23:12, 20 January 2010 (CET)

Not that I want to start discussing it before the meeting, but I suggest reading this: https://www.brandonsavage.net/why-subversion-still-beats-git/

--Lem9 13:23, 21 January 2010 (CET)

I would not call that beating :-). Anyway I'm quite happy with git-svn for now, which hides most of svn annoyances from me.

--Nijel 14:20, 21 January 2010 (CET)

Gettext in phpMyAdmin

Share my experiences with converting phpMyAdmin to use gettext and decide further directions with this idea.

--Nijel 23:12, 20 January 2010 (CET)

Attracting new developers

We need help on this project, how can we persuade the community to increase its contribution?

--Lem9 12:42, 21 January 2010 (CET)

-> github, seems the easiest way to contribute to projects for "foreign" developers

--Cybot 10:38, 3 February 2010 (CET)

Google Summer of Code 2010

Should we participate? Who wants to mentor? test? integrate? GSoC will accept applications for would-be mentoring organizations from March 8th to March 12th.

--Lem9 12:42, 21 January 2010 (CET)

Goals for 2010

What will be the main focus in 2010? Refactoring? Small new features? Removing dust on the feature requests tracker?

--Lem9 12:42, 21 January 2010 (CET)

Preserving a fast and intuitive interface

--Helmo 14:01, 21 January 2010 (CET)

Our competition

What can we learn from our competition, for example Adminer or SQLBuddy.

--Nijel 13:36, 21 January 2010 (CET)

MySQL derivatives support

With the uncertain position towards Oracle, how do we approach MySQL forks?

--Helmo 14:01, 21 January 2010 (CET)

Discussing interface details

Is this meeting the good place to discuss interface improvements? For example

• Menus
  • configurable menus
  • new menu grouping
  • a new menu sublevel

--Lem9 11:03, 23 January 2010 (CET)

Release strategy

Current release process works fine for the most parts.

Maybe we could hold off creating a MAINT branch until the version is really released. During the beta of 3.3.0 QA_3_3 and MAINT_3_3_0 are practically identical.

--Helmo 10:29, 29 January 2010 (CET)

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