His project site maintained a discussion
forum, so new ideas came along and patches were discussed. Version 2.1.0 was
released on 2000-08-06, which was the last version released by Tobias, who had no
more time to devote to this project.
However, users were already numerous and asked more of the product. Patches
were floating on the Internet, with no way of coordinating them. A security
alert (and fix) had been published by a third party, but no new version was being
released. On 2001-03-31, Olivier M??ller registered the phpMyAdmin project on
SourceForge.net, and released a 2.2.0pre1 version. At this time, this was called the
unofficial version. This restart of the project attracted some developers, who now had
the SourceForge infrastructure (CVS server, forums, bug trackers, mailing lists) to
help speed up the development. I personally "re-joined" the project in May 2001 and
started fixing and improving the code, as my co-developers were doing.
We became "official" on 2001-05-28, as Tobias accepted our version as the new
official one. I remember those months of very intense development effort, with daily
improvements and bug fixes, along with new documentation sections. This effort
culminated on 2001-08-31 with the release of version 2.2.0.
Here's an excerpt from the announcement file for 2.2.0:
"After 5 months, 5 beta releases, and 4 release candidate versions, the
phpMyAdmin developers are pleased to announce the availability of
phpMyAdmin 2.
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