Ectoman wrote:
Highway of Life wrote:
Are some experts doing it? You betcha, me included. But you won't find me asking for support. If I fall into a pile of dog woops for running a live board, it's my own stinkin' fault.
Exactly. I know my way around php, mysql, and phpBB especially.
Has this turned into a brag thread? The
first post was from a one-hit-wonder who obviously did not know anything about recent discussions regarding phpBB3 beta releases and
why the devs won't offer support during the Beta phase. Suddenly everyone is telling each other how good they are at php/mysql.
(not aimed at you particularly ecto); So what if
you know how to upgrade from a cvs to beta x? The problem is, not everyone who uses phpbb
can do it, myself included. If I were to take Beta2 live and start a forum which, by the time Olympus turns Gold, has gotten a million posts and a thousand members...what would I do? How would I get to the final release? I would be stranded; the devs would roll thier eyes at me and everyone else here would tsk, tsk, tsk me. So where do I go? That's right -- I
am stuck. My forum members are stuck, and the million posts they made will be gone. Unless I decide to continue usig Beta2...
But then what if a humungous security hole is discovered in Beta2, which the dev team patches in the next cvs. I'm still using the Beta2 board, aren't I? Where do I go now?
No support is offered for beta software -- for a reason, and a good one at that. Highway put it quite well.
Ectoman wrote:
It sounds like a bunch of people do not understand the "No Support Policy". They will not give you support if you are running it live and come across a problem that makes part of your site not work. They WILL give support for bugs you find, and security flaws you find. This is how phpBB is able to be developed.. and evolved.
That's the purpose of Beta software. People who know how the program works can test it on a large scale and point out anywhere the developers have stumbled.
addendum: Area51 is a phpBB3 board. Not sure if it's up to the lastest CVS, but it'll be a beta2 atleast. But then this board is run by the people who have made this system, so no problem there.
Again, the key is
people who know php/mysql/phpbb.
