Thanks for the updates Luca. Yes, as I imagined no updates in this area come entirely for free. Good that you mentioned this underinvested area.
I think more actively asking for supporting this part of the infrastructure make sense. People are using it after all and benefiting from it. It's a huge part of KDE working behind the scenes. Perhaps "free software needs free tools" is easy to say and harder make reality. And keep as such. I prefer to combine that with other saying: "for your work use the best tools money can buy". On 28 September 2015 at 20:22, Luca Beltrame <[email protected]> wrote: > Il Mon, 28 Sep 2015 15:48:02 +0200, Jaroslaw Staniek ha scritto: > > Hello Jaroslaw, > >> towards two things. Posting here so perhaps people accustomed with web >> services read this. Excuse me if this is already on someone's desk. > > As far as I know, no one is working on the forum code. Some of your > suggestions make sense, but I can't really discuss them here because we > have a much larger obstacle ahead first: the upgrade to phpBB 3.1. > > Despite being a "minor" version, phpBB 3.1 is nothing like phpBB 3.0. In > fact, I don't think, to my limited understanding, very close code wise. > An upgrade to the forum is hard because we have a lot of modifications: > > - Brainstorm (not sure how many use that nowadays, but it's there) > - Mod tools (quick ban for spammers) > - Search > - The theme itself > - ... > > Currently the staff has no time to even think about this upgrade, which > will become necessary sooner or later. And if anyone wonders about a GSoC, > I don't think it qualifies as GSoC material, and unfortunately even if it > did, I'd have no time for mentoring. > > We need someone from the community, preferably *more* than one person as > it's a large task, with good PHP knowledge, which could help us. > > Sorry for hijacking your thread. > > >> So what I do when I expect answer to an important topic is: navigating >> (nightmare on mobile device) to the topic and click via subsequent pages >> to find the answer > > I'm not sure if they changed in 3.1 compared to 3.0, as I didn't look > closely enough. > >> able to fix it (in the style sheets?) for most cases or by googling >> "phpBB-Mobile". > > We need someone to help us with the theming, but doing it for phpbb 3.0 is > IMO a wasted effort. > >> Would it be possible to have a filter (ON or OFF by default?) e.g. in > > I'm not sure it is possible (again, unsure about phpBB 3.1). > > -- > Luca Beltrame - KDE Forums team > KDE Science supporter > GPG key ID: A29D259B > > _______________________________________________ > kde-community mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-community -- regards, Jaroslaw Staniek KDE: : A world-wide network of software engineers, artists, writers, translators : and facilitators committed to Free Software development - http://kde.org Calligra Suite: : A graphic art and office suite - http://calligra.org Kexi: : A visual database apps builder - http://calligra.org/kexi Qt Certified Specialist: : http://www.linkedin.com/in/jstaniek _______________________________________________ kde-community mailing list [email protected] https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-community
