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The patch should be backported to 3.0.

What does that offer that could not have been achieved with recording which migrations have been run without actually running them?

This should go into a pretty url/seo extension.

Taking freebsd ports as an example, upgrading a port does the following:

1. the new version is built in a temporary area
2. a package (tarball) is created from existing files of the old version
3. existing files (those in the packing list) of the old version are removed
4. new version is installed ...

If the "home button" text is customizable, board index might as well also be.

Stack exchange software had been specifically developed for Q&A format. phpbb is not going to be better for that task no matter what we do.

That said, proposals for augmenting phpbb with functionality that has real use cases among users of phpbb is pretty much the definition of RFCs. The key in ...

Rich text editor has proven to be a highly nontrivial undertaking due to custom bbcodes. While inserting a rich text editor into the posting page is not complicated, making the rich text editor understand all possible phpbb bbcodes is.

Unless you already have a thorough understanding of custom ...

3.1 uses more memory for php code than 3.0. This is partially due to using more third-party libraries (which do more than we need, therefore at least burning memory if not cpu time that 3.0 did not) and partially because "modern php" moves toward java in terms of the amount of boilerplate code being ...

Any schema changes can lock up the affected tables resulting in data corruption and/or loss.
You might want to look into postgres and transactional ddl...

What you are describing is a dbms bug any way you look at it. A dbms is not supposed to "lock up" tables. It is supposed to lock them.

MichaelC wrote:Ultimately, what difference does it make by including all of them

Security concerns? I would not want existing develop scripts in my webroot.