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Hiding those statistics won't make a board look any busier, if you browse the board for a couple of minutes you'll notice whether the board is busy or not no matter whether there are statistics ...

RC1 breaks backward compatibility. ticket

Why not simply define them in your extension file when it gets loaded? I honestly can't remember the last time I added a database constant to that file.

How are update problems being handled?
How are the files going to be written?
How is the update going to be verified whether it was successful?

I'm -1 on background updates, the system could automatically prepare the update, but the actual update should always be triggered by the user.

Before this process will been started you should complete the core first. Then you and we will have less things to migrate and an effort immediately for the core and for the phpBB using community, too.
That is what we are doing right now... but we cannot know each and every event location that an ...

What he means is there needs to be a way to disable the new URL structure to fallback on the current, e.g. viewtopic.php?t=14 instead of /t14-my-topic/ Obviously without mod_rewrite, trying to access the latter will not work, but links should be changed at runtime based on the URL setting that ...

I support http://area51.phpbb.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?p=240415#p240415, half-solutions I'd rather not do.
The problem with that is that it requires that the server supports mod_rewrite.
It should be made in such a way that it gracefully falls back to the current behavior if you don't have mod ...

+1

I'm actually starting to utilise this style more and more on private projects. Especially in the "and" case the resulting query is a lot easier to read when just glazing over it.

If you made the event "core.assign_vars" then your listener would be run on each and every assign_vars() method call, when really you want it to only run, for instance, on viewtopic. You still need uniquely-named events for the listeners to subscribe to.

EDIT: An idea is to add a another (optional ...

Okay, so from phpbb_template class, here is an untested implementation for assign_vars:
/**
* Assign key variable pairs from an array
*
* @param array $vararray A hash of variable name => value pairs
* @param string $event_name The name of the event that has access to this assign_vars call ...