When I say: "non-expert users", I mean: Users not wanting to get involved in Drizzle development itself, but wanting to test Drizzle.
On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 3:58 PM, Pablo Cuadrado <[email protected]> wrote: > ::: Project Title: > > Web-Based GUI for Drizzle > > ::: Name: > > Pablo Cuadrado > > ::: Email: > > [email protected] > > ::: Synopsis: > > Create a first version of a web-based GUI interface for Drizzle, > taking advantage of modern browser capabilities like Chromium or > Firefox 3.5+. > > ::: Benefits to the Drizzle Community: > > The main goal is not to make a "shiny and beautiful" interface as a > delight to the eye. > > The main goal is to increase early adoption by the community, by > making Drizzle closer to the "non-Drizzle-developer" community, which > is following the "buzz" about Drizzle right now. > > This early adoption leads to more exposure and a good testing > scenario, bugs could be exposed rapidly in a greater variety of > configurations even by non-expert users. > > Anyway, it will be also shiny and beautiful! :) > >>>> More about adoption on this paper: >>>> http://wiki.pentaho.com/download/attachments/8346/The+Beekeeper+%28long%29-V1.3.pdf?version=1 >>>> ...pages 16-21, propietary software quality costs on finding and fixing >>>> defects vs. open source costs. > > ::: Deliverables: > > A first protoype of a web-based GUI interface which features: > - Query execution > - Results listing > - Schema creation > - Configuration options > - Server status monitoring > - Statistics > - Bug reporting > > > ::: Project Details: > > The goal is to create a first prototype of a GUI for interacting with > Drizzle, vía web-browser, envisioning the capabilities of modern > browsers like Chromium or Firefox 3.5+. > > This first prototype should serve as a basis for enhancements and > further releases in the future. > > Web interfaces made a heavy improvement since the early "phpMyAdmin" > times, and they have a high portability and availability; i.e., as a > FreeBSD user, I love accessing Webmin from almost any computer with a > browser. > > The server-side implementation could be on PHP or Python, mostly > depending on which API is likely to be more advanced, complete, or > available as the Drizzle project grows. > > Client-side, well... HTML, CSS, Javascript. The usual suspects. > > ::: Project Schedule: > > I can start on late May, and I didn't get to a planning phase, but in > a rough (I can't stress enough: **ROUGH**) estimation I calculated it > can take up to 45 working days. > _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~drizzle-discuss Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~drizzle-discuss More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
