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Rather needed, and rather scary as this will be a big change.

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http://www.phpbb.com/community/viewtopic.php?f=46&t=880165


and i agree

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This issue comes back to the heart of why if you want a modded forum, you need it in professional hands.

Whilst there are ways of automatically updating code, I'd no more use them that I would walk blindfold across a motorway  

Lets hope they see sense or a hard job will be made harder.

[Symon]

The easy way to update is to just get the updated file and run it,,,,,, but as you say you are totally blind as to what changes are being made...

I,m sure common sense will prevail here.

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I have sorted the database changes which are fairly trivial, and may give it till Thursday for them to produce the old style annotation.

I can of course do things manually, and even with the change file it does mean doing things file by file manually anyway. But working from the change file is easier and less error prone.

Common sense says that they will as you suggest see this.

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What the heck, I now have four source trees:

1) myff phpbb3
2) phpbb3.00
3) phpbb3.01todo
4) phpbb3.01done

and I will use the excellent kdiff3 that can show differences between three files on screen at once.

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This as expected is going to take a long time, I note amongst the many changes even to the memberlist.php file that there are template implications that may prove to be a real pain for people.

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viewforum.php  is worrying, it is a straight replacement file, but with so many changes you have to wonder what the likelyhood is that the bug fixes will have bugs? 3.00 was the result of many release candidates, what is 3.01 the result of?

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One fix, does look like it should resolve the dreaded WSOD.

That has been one of the biggest problems on the system.

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40 files done, 110 to go. Not exactly speedy, but quite a proportion done so far have needed attention.

I think with any luck the job will be done by Friday for installing Saturday.

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Last one for tonight I think, and it was sessions.php which in many ways is the crux of a forum.


As I have said before sessions should not be that bleeding complicated, and the bug fixes involve:

1) An extra database field.
2) A change to cookie creation.

Plus about a dozen other changes. Hopefully this will sort a few things, but again one cannot help but worry about the level of testing, and how well the changes are understood when the system is so darn complex.

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As expected reports are starting of bugs specific to 3.01.

http://www.phpbb.com/community/viewtopic.php?f=46&t=882435

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Next notable change is a lot of fixes to permissions control on the admin panel. Given the complexity of phpbb3 permissions this comes as no surprise.

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Only three files to do

Quicker than I thought it might be

Some reflection there perhaps on now having tried to mess about with the files too much prior to the patch release.

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Code done, database update script working, and test forum working without obvious problems.

With 150 odd files in the mix, there is going to be no substitute for the end users doing the testing though  

Roll out still planned for Saturday.

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Have just knocked up a little bash script that will deploy just those files changed in the last # days.

Might seem odd that no such beast had been written here before? but I really do prefer a manual approach, but the actual grand total of files here is 141 and that tips the balance in favour of automatic!