Development Discussion Board

I'm using subdhn, but all of them have good qualities.

I haven't seen anything describing the specific feature the developers are working on at any one time, but the version number of this board, 2.1.2, means that we are finished with Milestone 2 and working on Milestone 3. There is a roadmap available at area51.phpbb.com where you can look at the featu...

Hey, just a quick informal contest here. Post your own estimated release date for phpBB 2.2 here. If it's released on the date you chose, you win a FREE copy of phpBB 2.2! :D

My estimate: December 19, 2003

Just wondering, if phpBB 2.2 is going to be released...eventually...will it run on PHP 4 or 5? With the beta of 5 yesterday, I would think that the stable release will be finished before 2.2 is done. And if phpBB 2.2 is not going to be PHP 5 compatible, which version of 4 will be the minimum needed...

To continue that answer, will users and groups be allowed to access other areas of the Admin panel? (Configuration, User Management...)

I know that asking for release dates is frowned upon, so I will ask this:

What milestone/objective is the developers currently working on?

(Last I heard it was pre-Milestone 2, but it would be nice to have an update.)

A suggestion/idea (sorry!): There is a modification (phpBB approved and for download in the Mods section) called MoneySystems which gives users points or money both per post and according to post length . Now wouldn't it be neat if karma could be influenced by a user's average post length as well a...

With the new subforums feature, will moderators be able to create subforums/categories in the categories/forums/subforums they moderate? Or will this power reside only with the administrator?

Mountains

Will there be other ways to add custom features to phpBB? Custom profile fields and the like? What about plugins? If modders could write their mods in plugin form rather than needing to edit the code, it would preserve the original code and prevent modifications from breaking the entire system...I ...