Po dlouhé době váhání jsem se rozhodl ukončit provoz webu phpmyadmin.cz ve stávající podobě. Sám nejsem schopen najít čas na jeho udržování a nikdo další se o jeho provoz nezajímal. Ve stávající mrtvé podobě nemá žádný smysl ho udržovat a návštěvnost je stejně minimální.
Všechny články byly naimportovány do tohoto blogu, kde je můžete nalézt v kategorii phpMyAdmin, kam je také v současné době doména phpmyadmin.cz přesměrována.
After few weeks of heavy testing, Weblate 1.0 has been released today.
Compared to 0.9 there are just minor changes and bug fixes. The most important thing is that Weblate should be now really ready to use :-).
Full list of changes for 1.0:
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 can be found 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).
There already has been official announcement for this years GSoC at phpMyAdmin and it's time to share my bits. First of all more details about chosen projects are available on our wiki (missing bits will get updated soon).
This year I'll be mentoring again three students. As usual, it was quite tough job to choose students and I hope we've chosen really good ones. Anyway we'll see this later during there summer :-).
As we're currently on a (long) way to phpMyAdmin 4.0, basically all projects are somehow about cleanup and refactoring of quite historical code which lives in some dark places of phpMyAdmin. The only big difference is automated testing project, which is purely about writing new test cases and making tests cover more functionality.
Anyway I'm looking forward to see first improvements from my students - Alex Marin, Yasitha Pandithawatta and Chanaka Indrajith.
phpMyAdmin is very popular tool, but for whatever reason number of contributors is not that high as you would expect in such famous project. We're not looking only for developers, basically anybody can help!
Working with phpMyAdmin will give you great opportunity to participate in one of most popular free software projects (we're constantly ranked in 20 most downloaded projects on SourceForge.net for many years). You can learn a lot and extend your knowledge by cooperating with other skilled people. And of course you can use this reference in your resume :-).
So how you can help? You can help with translating, writing documentation, creating video tutorials, bug screening or coding. You can see all possibilities in more details on our website.
As student application period of Google Summer of Code 2012 is over, it's time to look at proposals we got for phpMyAdmin.
First of all we got slightly less proposals than in past years (38 this year, 52 in 2011 and 68 in 2010). This is probably related to the fact that we heavily focus on code cleanup this year and this is definitely not that interesting topic as adding new features. I think quality has also slightly improved, but still there were few completely bogus applications for totally unrelated projects.
Also as usual, people tend to leave submission for very last date:
(and then complain, that they don't have enough time to submit patch as described in our applicant guide).
Quite unsurprisingly the most interesting topic seemed to be frames removal, where we got few really good proposals. You can see how other topics were frequent in following chart:
Please note that the numbers are not 100% accurate as some proposals really did not fit into above categories.
Anyway we're just waiting for last people submitting patches today and evaluation will finalize in upcoming days. Of course you will know the results from Google on April 23rd.
phpMyAdmin 3.5 should be released this weekend, so let's look at translations status for last time before release. Here comes seventh round of translation status update.
Since last update we have one more translation and one less (due to some not translated strings in it) summing up to 11 translations at 100%:
There are few which are really close to 100% and I hope they will get there till release:
As you can see, there is still lot of languages missing, this might be your opportunity to contribute to phpMyAdmin. Also you are welcome to translate phpMyAdmin 3.5 using translation server.
You have probably noticed that phpMyAdmin is again participating in Google Summer of Code 2012. This year we don't want to bring dozens of new features like we did in past year, but rather to improve quality and maintainability of existing code. This is all in sync with our plan for phpMyAdmin 4.0.
So if you are student interested in improving phpMyAdmin and have knowledge of PHP (especially with some refactoring experiences), you would be welcome to join us. More information is available in our applicant guide.
PS: Please note that for removal of frames we already have few applications right now, so you might want to focus some other parts to have higher chance to get accepted.
One of features I wanted to introduce with Weblate is ability to do some quality checks while translating. We want contributors to have easy access to translating, but still we need to ensure some quality of translations. That's why Weblate comes with set of quality checks which are performed on every translation unit. The current set of checks (see documentation) is pretty basic and more might be easily added in the future pretty easily.
There are two ways how checks are used in Weblate. During translating, if any of checks fires, translator stays on current translation with warning that something might be wrong. This is not a hard error as he still can be correct, but should at least prevent accidental mistakes like corrupted format strings or missing trailing colon.
The other way is to do review of a translation. Failing checks are shown on each translation page or you can browse them by project to give you overview what can be wrong.
For example with phpMyAdmin this helped me discover that there were few languages where almost half of translated strings are actually not translated but simply copied from English. There were also other problems like inconsistent translations across branches. All in all using these features helped me to improve quality of translations in phpMyAdmin quite a lot and I hope we will keep it for the future.
phpMyAdmin 3.5 should be released on April 7, 2012, so let's again look at translations status. Here comes sixth round of translation status update.
Since last update we have two more translations summing up to 11 translations at 100%:
There are few which are really close to 100% and I hope they will get there soon:
As you can see, there is still lot of languages missing, this might be your opportunity to contribute to phpMyAdmin. Also you are welcome to translate phpMyAdmin 3.5 using translation server.
We're heading towards final phpMyAdmin 3.5, so let's again look at translations status. Here comes fifth round of translation status update.
Since last update we one less translation (it was not really complete, the po file missed few strings) at 100%:
There are few which are really close to 100% and I hope they will get there soon:
As you can see, there is still lot of languages missing, this might be your opportunity to contribute to phpMyAdmin. Also you are welcome to translate phpMyAdmin 3.5 using new translation server.