PhD Improvements (Plugin System)

The original application is http://socghop.appspot.com/student_project/show/google/gsoc2009/php/t124023314252

• Student: Moacir de Oliveira Miranda Junior
• Nickname: moacirdeo
• Blog: http://moacirdeoliveira.blogspot.com/
• Mentor: Hannes Magnusson
• Mentor nickname: bjori
• Timezone: GMT -4 (Moacir), GMT+2 (Hannes)
• Mailing list: phpdoc@lists.php.net
• IRC: #php.doc @ EFNet

Today, PhD is centric in php.net projects and needs some improvements to be useful to others projects. In Google Summer of Code 2008 was added output formats/themes and other things, however these formats/themes are very attached to the main code of the PhD and is impossible to develop a new theme without changing the main code. The aim of my proposal is develop a Plugin System to manage Themes and Formats, to enable other projects writing their own themes without modify the main code of PhD.

First Part (23 May to 13 July)

Sprint 1 (23 May to 6 June)

• Begin merging stuff from ENTERPRISE to HEAD
• Discuss the design with the community

Sprint 2 - (07 June to 20 June)

• Separate formats in abstracts and concrete classes
• Make concrete formats “plug and play”

Sprint 3 - (21 June to 04 July)

• Merge the SQLite Indexer from ENTERPRISE to HEAD
• Write tests

Sprint 4 - (05 July to 13 July)

• Midterm evaluations

Second Part (14 July to 24 August)

Sprint 5 - (14 July to 25 July)

• Implement PI (Processing Instructions) support
• Write tests

(We decided not to render the books Docbook: The Definitive Guide and Producing Open Source Software to focus in port the old Themes to new Packages)

Sprint 6 - (26 July to 08 August)

• Port the Pear Themes to Packages

Sprint 7 - (09 August to 22 August)

• Port the PHP Themes to Packages

Sprint 8 - (16 August to 24 August)

• Final Evaluations