Michal Čihař - Blog Archives for phpMyAdmin

As usual, I've changed my plans for Weblate 1.4. Simply before I got to implementing features I wanted to have there, I've already implemented bunch of other things, which are worth releasing.

So my plan is to release Weblate 1.4 next week with current feature set (you can check list of fixed issues) and focus on 1.5 development then.

Some major features which will be available in Weblate 1.4:

• Added various configuration options to allow more customization.
• Added sitemaps to allow easier access by crawlers.
• Improved notification emails (added links and HTML version with colored diff).
• Provide hints for production setup in admin interface.
• Indicate failing checks or fuzzy strings in progressbars.
• Support for per project ACL.

As a clear consequence, some of the big features were moved to 1.5, but I've added also some other things I'd like to implement, see 1.5 milestone on GitHub.

phpMyAdmin just got a new theme. It's available for download on our themes page.

New theme reflects look of new Windows and I have to admit it looks quite nice:

As you can see, it also offers four color variants, configurable in it's layout.inc.php file.

PS: More details on theme can be found on deviantART.

Finally, I've found some time to update phpMyAdmin packages in Debian to 3.5 series. For long it was not possible due to licensing reasons, but recently this issue was resolved upstream by using jqPlot instead of Highcharts.

While packaging new version, I've also replaced all embedded libraries to use corresponding packages from Debian. I've done some testing and everything seems to work fine, but still this frightens me as some versions are slightly different than upstream.

Anyway new version is available in experimental for now. Ubuntu users can get it from phpMyAdmin PPA.

I've just confirmed my flight and hotel bookings for FOSDEM 2013, so I'm looking to meet all great people there again.

This year my schedule is not that packed as I have no talks (Weblate lightning talk was not accepted) and also there will be no big phpMyAdmin team meeting, so get in touch if you want to discuss anything with me.

As most of the rooms still don't have a schedule, I can't give you hint where I will be present, but I definitely won't miss Friday beer event and Dieter's talk about phpMyAdmin in MySQL room. The rest pretty much depends on who I will meet :-).

Year 2013 has just started and it's time to think how to spend my free time during this year.

Weblate

Weblate was my toy project number one in last year and I expect it to stay for next year as well. I have several ideas for new features, but all that depends on free time. I will most likely spend my hackweek on that as well.

phpMyAdmin

I think my involvement will stay at about same level at phpMyAdmin - doing few random bugfixes, mostly security ones, taking care of infrastructure for translations and wiki and mentoring few GSoC students.

Gammu and Wammu

Gammu and Wammu has not seen much activity from me in past year and it will probably not change. I don't use the program anymore and this pretty much limits my interest in adding new features. In case somebody active will pop up on mailing list, I'd be happy to transfer the project ownership.

Mobile apps

I'd like to make some progress here, I was also thinking about making some of them working on Android as well, but this involves lot of learning and time is always an issue here. Anyway this might be good challenge for hackweek as well.

Debian

No changes expected here :-).

Others

I consider pretty much anything else from my software projects abandoned or finished.

V nedávné době získal phpMyAdmin novou dokumentaci. Ta přinesla mnohá vylepšení, například lepší strukturu nebo možnost výstupu do různých formátů jako PDF nebo ePub.

Mimo jiné také umožňuje snadnější překládání do dalších jazyků, tak je možná na čase oprášit snahu o překlad do češtiny. Překládat můžete na překladovém serveru, případně je možné stáhnout po soubory a pracovat s nimi.

Překlad phpMyAdmina jako takového stíhám udržovat a doplňovat sám, ale na dokumentaci už mi čas nezbývá, tak uvítám jakoukoliv pomoc. Samozřejmě jsem k dispozici pro rady a také můžete použít glosář ve Weblate, který obsahuje většinu základních pojmů, pro zachování konzistentního překladu.

Since converting the phpMyAdmin documentation to new format and updating it's content, I was quite frightened how this will affect translated versions of it.

Fortunately giving it more attractive format and more advertisement lead to increased contributions. Since Friday, we already have one language which has reached 100% - Spanish. Matías Bellone simply did there awesome job and went through all fuzzy and new strings in just few days.

Now I'm looking forward to other contributors as well, I hope we will be able to deliver translated manual for phpMyAdmin 4.0 in many languages. I'll definitely try to translate to Czech, but any help with that is welcome.

Quite on updated schedule (ie. one month later than originally planned), Weblate 1.3 has been released today. It comes with lot of improvements, especially in support of non gettext files, new quality checks and improved performance.

Full list of changes for 1.3:

• Compatibility with PostgreSQL database backend.
• Removes languages removed in upstream git repository.
• Improved consistency checks processing.
• Added new checks (BB code, XML markup and newlines).
• Support for optional rebasing instead of merge.
• Possibility to relocate Weblate (eg. to run it under /weblate path).
• Support for manually choosing file type in case autodetection fails.
• Better support for Android resources.
• Support for generating SSH key from web interface.
• More visible data exports.
• New buttons to enter some special characters.
• Support for exporting dictionary.
• Support for locking down whole Weblate installation.
• Checks for source strings and support for source strings review.
• Support for user comments for both translations and source strings.
• Better changes log tracking.
• Changes can now be monitored using RSS.
• Improved support for RTL languages.

You can find more information about Weblate on it's website, the code is hosted on Github. If you are curious how it looks, you can try it out on demo server. You can login there with demo account using demo password or register your own user. Ready to run appliances will be soon available in SUSE Studio Gallery.

Weblate is also being used https://l10n.cihar.com/ as official translating service for phpMyAdmin, Gammu, Weblate itself and others.

If you are free software project which would like to use Weblate, I'm happy to help you with set up or even host Weblate for you (this will be decided case by case as my hosting space is limited).

Weblate is close to 1.3 release (should happen on Friday if nothing urgent appears) and it's quite last chance for translators to catch up.

Weblate is of course translated using Weblate, but you can of course also translate Gettext po files directly and either upload them into Weblate or use Github issue tracker for that.

If you don't know Weblate yet, it is web based tool for translating with Git integration. You can also call it crowdsourcing platform if you wish :-).

As I've already written before, phpMyAdmin is getting new documentation. The basic conversion has been already done and merged, but there are always things to improve.

Right now I'm spending my free time on improving that and pushing the documentation forward. But hey, you can help in this area as well - just look at it on http://docs.phpmyadmin.net/ and in case you see any problems, fix them or at least report them.

The easiest way to contribute a fix is to use online editor Github provides. Just navigate to the documentation sources, choose appropriate file, click on edit (what automatically forks the project for you) and once you're satisfied with your changes, open a pull request.

In case this still looks too hard for you, just open a bug report or write us on mailing list or IRC.

And you can of course also contribute to documentation translations, which did unfortunately suffer quite a lot from the documentation conversion.