camp

Yesterday was the last day of this years symfony camp. It was a great gathering of the community and also of the symfony core team.

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There were fantastic presentations:

  • from pookey about how to manage your farm with the admin gernerator and keep you cows dry
  • fabien talked about the future of symfony (with its DI container coming in 2.0) and how to do code refactoring with tests backing you up
  • dustin showed his ysfYUIPlugin and presented Yahoos lessons learned
  • stefan gave us all the details of the secret super powers of the debug toolbar
  • while jonathan gave a deep intro into doctrine (seems he forgot that the talk was propel vs. doctrine :-) )
  • but francois backed jon up by demonstrating how to develop good plugins with his dbfinder plugin as example which solves propel issues

In total I think the camp improved form last year with some more thorough talks and about twice as many symfonians participating. Organization from DOP was great, including the usual BBQ and as special event a real casion, where we could play with symfony money (special thanks to pookey who managed to loose all money after winning about 800 symfony dollars :-) ). Breakfast and lunch was pretty basic as last year, so it would be nice to improve there slightly for next year.

symfony 1.2

During the camp I took my chance as release manager for 1.2 to talk to every involved member of the team who was there. In addition, we spent some time before and after (and sometimes during) the talks to fix some bugs, clarify tickets and close them and implement new features. Fabien also did a live commit of the new RESTful routing. There are still 47 tickets open for 1.2, but only 13 of them are classified as defect.

With regard to the main features, there is quite a lot done already. Propel 1.3 work is about to be finalized, as well as my work on separating Javascript Helpers into a plugin. All code for PHP<5.2 has been removed and as the groundwork for the new admin gen is done Fabien can start working on this. JWage also is about to bring Doctrine support up to Par, so only Swift Mailing integration and Input Filtering are not done yet.

I am considering to do the feature freeze for 1.2 in about a month, so we can get out 1.2 on time.