Posted by naderman in Development with the tags ascraeus, Development, Features, Git, phpBB, phpbb3, phpBB4, Rhea, Subversion, SVN, Symfony on February 18th, 2010
About a month ago I was promoted to phpBB’s lead developer position. When I was given that role I was asked to present to the management team what my plans for phpBB are. But since they concern all of you, the phpBB community, I believe they belong here as well.
We are currently in the process of releasing phpBB 3.0.7, a smaller bug fix release of Olympus. After that development will split into multiple branches. Meik has already explained our new versioning system in a previous announcement. What this means is that after 3.0.7 is released we will start working on two branches: Ascraeus – the future phpBB 3.1, and Rhea – the future phpBB4. At the same time we will continue maintanance releases of Olympus.
Over the last few weeks we have made a few important decisions, that we believe can positively impact phpBB development. These include changes to development infrastructure as well as our development model. I will briefly outline these changes here, more details will be posted on the blog or as an announcement soon. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by naderman in Development with the tags Community, Contributing, Development, Junior Developers, phpBB, SVN on June 17th, 2009
phpBB is continuing its process of opening up the development process. After an internal trial phase we have now opened up the Junior Developer Team to regular members of our community. An increasing amount of people involved in phpBB development should both speed up the development and improve quality.
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Posted by battye in Development with the tags area51, history, phpBB, SVN, Website on February 25th, 2009
No! I’m not talking about military bases or U.S. conspiracy theories, but rather phpBB’s very own Area51 – http://area51.phpbb.com
Area51 is phpBB’s official testing ground, and as stated on the site it is the home of “bleeding edge developmental code”. The site was established in 2001 – the brainchild of psoTFX, the former leader of the development team, in order to have a local installation of phpBB that they could test in a real life situation. With the main phpBB.com forum obviously out of the question, Area51.phpbb.com can be used so that the developers can see how the latest code is holding up with many concurrent users online, without fear of users becoming annoyed if certain features aren’t working (which I will touch on in a minute).
Area51 boasts the unique feat of hardly changing at all and always changing at the same time.
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