Michal Čihař - Archive for 2/2012

I've just updated phpMyAdmin repos on github and enabled notifications hooks there, so the earlier announced switch to github is done.

All you need to do is point your repositories to pull/push to github, for main repository it can be done using:

git remote set-url origin git@github.com:phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin.git

If you are using just read only access then use following:

git remote set-url origin git://github.com/phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin.git

For other repositories just replace last part of the URL with repository name (they have not changed).

Everything should work as before, pushes should be now faster, because all notifications are done in background on github and they don't block pushing.

Yet another FOSDEM is behind us and I'd like to thank all people organizing it. It was a great event as usual.

This year there were some changes - the conference grew and there was an extra building. This is great, but on the other side, there were more tracks to follow and occasionally I wanted to be in four places at once, what is of course not manageable.

Combined with quite freezing weather (well it was still much warmer than it is now in Prague), moving from one side of campus to another was not that comfortable as in last years, but there is not much man can do with that.

And the biggest change for me - I did not manage beer event this year. We enjoyed great team dinner on Friday evening and while it ended, I was too lazy to move to crowded beer event and rather enjoyed bed in my hotel.

Yesterday we did held phpMyAdmin team meeting and we discussed several things for project future. One of discussed things was to move our repositories to github for easier collaboration and management of private repositories.

After some discussions we've decided to go for it. As I write this blog, all repositories are being pushed there and once all developers will get their access rights there, we will move completely.

But even right now, you can fork us on github, the code is already there and will be updated obsessionally until we fully move there.

Again, as usual in last few years, I'm spending first weekend in February in Brussels, where FOSDEM is happening.

This year we've again decided to do make this team meeting for phpMyAdmin, so people from five countries and three continents came to one conference to discuss future development and other stuff.

But of course this is not only thing I'm going to do here. I came with openSUSE folks, where we've brought lot of beer, some DVDs and hardware to show. You're welcome to check it out.

And of course there is about 430 talks to visit during weekend :-).

First of all, take this blog post as a rant from developer. I don't expect that this will change anything in how people ask me questions.

Anyway before you write me email with some questions, please check following easy bits:

1. Have you tried to write your question into Google?
2. Most projects have documentation, have you looked at it?
3. There are mailing lists or discussion forums, do you really need to write directly to me?
4. Writing subject like "!important" or ALL IN CAPS will work other way than you probably expect.
5. Yes I have more email addresses, that does not mean you should write to all of them.

If you do follow these basic rules, you might get more help than usual. If you are interested in knowing more, there is famous How To Ask Questions The Smart Way which will tell you more information than I did in this rant.