[Mageia-dev] PHP + phpBB mod capabilities needed to fix bug 1956 - please help

Tue Jan 3 10:09:19 CET 2012

2012/1/3 Michael Scherer <misc at zarb.org>:
+> Le lundi 02 janvier 2012 à 22:17 +0100, Maarten Vanraes a écrit :
+>> Op maandag 02 januari 2012 21:40:31 schreef Michael Scherer:
+>> > Le lundi 02 janvier 2012 à 19:41 +0100, Marja van Waes a écrit :
+>> > > Hi everyone,
+>> > >
+>> > > Can someone please help to fix bug 1956?
+>> > >
+>> > > You don't need to be a regular forum visitor.
+>> > >
+>> > > We need someone to find and implement a probably existing MOD,  needed
+>> > > to keep forum posts history when unlimited edit time is enabled
+>> > >
+>> > >  From wobo's comment #32:
+>> > > Capabilities needed:
+>> > > Well, one could say that anybody who
+>> > >
+>> > >   - knows how to run phpBB as admin and
+>> > >   - has seen a line of php
+>> > >   - knows how to edit code (respecting tags and such)
+>> > >   - knows how to cut&paste
+>> > >
+>> > > should be able to install an existing MOD (if I'm not mistaken there is
+>> > > one or more).
+>> > >
+>> > > I know next to nothing about php coding. But I've been running a phpBB
+>> > > forum for a couple of years and successfully implemented some MODs in
+>> > > phpBB2 and phpBB3. With no help (except the phpBB-forum in case of
+>> > > problems).
+>> > >
+>> > > In practice you have a detailed installation README for each MOD. Like
+>> > >
+>> > >   - open file /foo/bar/doo.php
+>> > >   - Find the line which starts with '......'
+>> > >   - After that add
+>> > >   - "........."
+>> > >
+>> > > And more such step-by-step guidance
+>> >
+>> > My eyes start to bleed dues to such "guidances".
+>>
+>> i'm sure misc means to say that we should have all our changes in
+>> packages/puppet config so that we can update without issues. and with file
+>> edits, that's a whole different thing.
+>
+> I was more thinking of proper patchs or better, proper modules, with
+> files to deploy in a well know directory .
+
+I only gave a part of an example. MODs are made as enhancement to the
+standard software. The easiest MOD is like Michael wrote: "a module
+with files to deploy in a well known directory". But in most cases
+they consist of files to copy into various directories of the program
+tree and changes to existing files of the software. There are other
+MODs which can be implemented automatically - which is far worse IMHO.
+This is where a modded phpBB3 could turn into a nightmare to maintain
+- believe me, I've been there :(
+
+Of course no developper of a MOD could know what somebody has already
+done to the standard files, so it's not possible do use only patches.
+And it could be (and that happens quite often) that a MOD is not
+compatible to your already "modificated" forum software (destroys
+other modifications or whatever).
+
+IMHO the best way in this case here would be a mod written for our
+setup, all changes well defined to make it maintainable in a proper
+way. Saying this I beg to think again whether the issue  justifies all
+the time and work.
+
+-- 
+wobo
+