Introducing phpMyAdmin - Mastering phpMyAdmin 2.8 for Effective MySQL Management - page 5

In 1999 and the first half of 2000, Tobias improved the navigation system, added
features, and merged more language files. 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, but no new version was being released. On
2001-03-31, Olivier Müller 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 "oficial" on 2001-05-28, as Tobias accepted our new 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 2.2.0. [...] on
31st March 2001, Olivier Müller (Switzerland), supported
by Marc Delisle (Québec), Loïc Chapeaux (France) and a
team of 8 other developers re-started the phpmyadmin
project on SourceForge.net, with the authorization of
the original package maintainer. Now, after 5 months of
patches, bug fixes, new features and testing, the version
2.2.0 is finally ready."
This version had security fixes, seven new languages (with dynamic
language-detection), and the code had been reworked to be CSS2 and XHTML 1.0
compliant, and follow the PEAR coding guidelines. The bookmarks feature appeared
in this version.
During the following year the development continued, with the release of seven
minor versions. The last version of the 2.2.x series is 2.2.7-pl1, which is also the last
to have been fully tested under PHP 3. A date to note: 2002-04-03; we registered
phpmyadmin.net as the official domain name for the project.