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Nicofuma wrote: Fri Jan 29, 2016 10:52 pm +1 on the initial proposal: nuke our current DBAL, expose doctrine dbal through a new service and make the service dbal.conn a simple wrapper for the doctrine service (wrapper which will be nuked in 4.0)

+1 to this

https://tracker.phpbb.com/browse/PHPBB3-14463

<MichaelC> Tbh, with drupal bumping it's minimum requirement to 5.5, I don't think it's something we should be worrying about (hosts not having updated)
<MichaelC> Also, if we are only going to 5.5 in one year, then by the time we jump to php7 or 5.6, 7.4 will have been released.
<MichaelC> Drupal ...

My suggestion for a trade off would probably be something like this: Support the PHP version not EOL on release of final, unless a dependency requires a larger version.

Seems good enough for me.
@Nicofuma, what do you think?


That would be 5.5 for phpBB 3.2.

I think we should leave ...

They don't care about people, they do care about projects saying to upgrade (GoPHP5)

Nah. They only care about what WordPress minimum requirement is, since that what 95% of their users want to use, which is 5.2.

According to this, 5.3 is still dominant :/
http://w3techs.com/technologies ...

+1 to 5.4 or, preferably 5.5 (As it won't be EOL).

Drupal 8 (release in a few months) requires PHP 5.5 (not 5.6 Tristan) so hosts will be forced to update in the next few months anyway although most major shared hosts are now running 5.5, one exception being BlueHost who Drupal are working with to ...

As far as I know the website team is aware of the issue, I don't know when they will fix it. Until then the only solution is to contact a manager to reset your login attempts manually.

Correct. Unfortunately this is a limitation of our JIRA/Crowd/phpBB Logins authentication system and is not ...

I know there isn't any phpBB specific code on the Area51 forums for the Mediawiki, but the MediaWiki itself probably looks at phpBB sessions and decides how to handle logins on MediaWiki. I'm mostly interested in the custom code / extension on the MediaWiki that was used.
But it's no integrated ...

It would be nice to see this moving again if someone is willing to pick up the actual development of it.

https://area51.phpbb.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?f=108&t=43427
Not sure how that fits in to this discussion? Does that somehow make requirements actually mean something and prevent installation of extensions into systems that don't meet those requirements?
Correct. Dependencies on anything (other ...

RMcGirr83 wrote:

nickvergessen wrote:That's the plan, we just didn't manage to finish that in time for 3.1

Ticket or no Joas? I'll open one if one doesn't exist.

https://area51.phpbb.com/phpBB/viewtopi ... 08&t=43427