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Posted by naderman in Development, Events with the tags , , , , , on July 26th, 2009

The phpBB Development and Management Teams met in Cologne, Germany last week for 4 days of exciting brainstorming and coding.

We discussed future phpBB releases and worked on phpBB 3.0.6. Our plans for 3.0.6 have previously been discussed on this blog, but we decided to add even more. One feature we decided upon and implemented during the meeting was PM reports. This feature allows users to report private messages to moderators just like posts. A reported private message will then appear in a new MCP module so moderators can read the message and act upon it. This is particularly useful for users who want to report spam PMs. From this feature emerged another: emptying a user’s outbox. This option, in the Manage Users section of the ACP, allows the deletion of all unread PMs sent by a spammer.

Yet another idea we had during the meeting, which has already been announced, is the Best CAPTCHA Plugin Competition. I would like to urge all MOD developers to participate in this competition since a large variety of CAPTCHAs is the most effective measure against spammers. With the new CAPTCHA API, creating a CAPTCHA plugin is really simple. The example Q&A CAPTCHA Plugin, which will ship with phpBB 3.0.6, was also created during the meeting.

Details of the decisions made regarding the future of phpBB will be published in separate blog posts over the next several weeks, so make sure to check back for news! Of course, the meeting was also a great opportunity for us to get to know each other better. Most of us had already met at Londonvasion last year, but it was great to catch up with everyone again! We visited the Chocolate Museum and climbed the tower of the Cologne Cathedral. All in all, we had lots of fun too. During the meeting, we were happy to invite bantu to join the Development Team.

View from the KΓΆlner Dom
View from the cathedral
At work
Team at work
Chocolate Fountain
Chocolate fountain

Group Photo

Andreas (bantu), Dominik (dhn), front: Jim (TerraFrost), back: Nils (naderman), Meik (Acyd Burn), Marek (APTX), Chris (ToonArmy), Henry (kellanved), Carolina, Yuriy (Marshalrusty), Igor (evil<3)

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30 Responses to “Developer Meeting”

Posted by Dog Cow on July 26th, 2009 at 8:12 pm:

You’re all very young; much more so than I had thought.

Posted by narqelion on July 26th, 2009 at 8:34 pm:

LOL@ Dog Cow’s comment! πŸ˜€

I like Meik’s shoes. Can I ask how tall Nils is?

Posted by zelonght on July 26th, 2009 at 10:39 pm:

I think Nils 1.9++

Posted by Dog Cow on July 26th, 2009 at 11:32 pm:

I’m 14, narqelion πŸ˜›

Posted by narqelion on July 27th, 2009 at 12:28 am:

Well that just makes your comment even funnier then! LOLOLOL So from a 14 year old’s perspective they look young? Heck, Meik is a veritable old man compared to the rest. πŸ˜›

Posted by naderman on July 27th, 2009 at 1:46 am:

I should have walked to the other side, like this I really stand out πŸ˜‰ I’m about 2m tall.

Posted by michael wagner on July 27th, 2009 at 2:36 am:

Cologne is nice. I lived about an hour south of there for 2 years.

Posted by narqelion on July 27th, 2009 at 4:21 am:

6’5″ really? If my math skills aren’t a bit off. πŸ˜€ Well nothing wrong with standing out, it’s something you should aspire to. πŸ˜‰ At least in the back your fashion sense remains a mystery. Lots of relaxed happy faces in that photo, had you all been drinking before it was snapped? πŸ˜›

Posted by Xanta on July 27th, 2009 at 7:23 am:

I noticed the PM Report feature when it was commited to SVN the other day. Defianetly a feature that was needed!

Posted by Pony99CA on July 28th, 2009 at 11:57 pm:

As long as we’re allowing emptying the PM out box, how about allowing emptying other PM folders? If somebody hasn’t been active on the board in years, I may not want to delete the user but would probably get rid of the PMs.

Posted by TerryE on August 3rd, 2009 at 4:27 am:

+1 @ Dog Cow’s comments. I remember doing a code review about 10 years ago and I made the comment to one of the guys “you were probably in nappies when I first did …”, and got the reply “I probably wasn’t even born”. We checked dates and he was right. Well Meik looks to be the only one at least half my age. πŸ˜†

Thanks for the photo. It’s nice to put a face to names. It shows that you don’t need grey hairs to produce a great product. πŸ™‚

Posted by Remington lover on August 5th, 2009 at 7:36 pm:

Nice Captcha on the Remington society forum. I have tried 16 times to register and I have yet to successfully log in.

Way to drive away people from their forum! Nice to see you are stealing their money for crappy captchas you can’t hardly read.

Posted by Kellanved on August 6th, 2009 at 5:16 pm:

Nice Captcha on the Remington society forum. I have tried 16 times to register and I have yet to successfully log in.
Way to drive away people from their forum! Nice to see you are stealing their money for crappy captchas you can’t hardly read.

It is the decision of a forum admin how the captchas are configured. Nonetheless, we will introduce a completely new captcha infrastructure with the upcoming 3.0.6 release.

Our software is free and we are a nonprofit group of enthusiasts – glad you like it.

Posted by Aurix on August 13th, 2009 at 12:34 am:

Cool team πŸ˜‰ Don’t offend, but you really look like developers ha-ha.

Posted by drathbun on August 20th, 2009 at 3:27 pm:

Igor still needs some new shoes… πŸ˜›

Posted by ToonArmy on August 20th, 2009 at 7:14 pm:

Igor still needs some new shoes… πŸ˜›

You can’t see it but the rubber is coming off the bottom of mine. πŸ™„

Posted by The Prep on August 20th, 2009 at 7:28 pm:

Nerds!

Posted by Semi_Deus on August 25th, 2009 at 2:33 pm:

Okay, can someone explain why Yuriy is holding a whisk? xD πŸ˜€

Posted by Webhostuk LTD on August 25th, 2009 at 4:03 pm:

Nice Team..All the best to all for all the good work you are doing together.

Posted by Damian Bushong on September 8th, 2009 at 7:35 pm:

[quote]Nice Captcha on the Remington society forum. I have tried 16 times to register and I have yet to successfully log in.

Way to drive away people from their forum! Nice to see you are stealing their money for crappy captchas you can’t hardly read.[/quote]

Fail. phpBB is free software (thus noone is stealing anyone’s money), and the fact that you are having issues registering is the responsibility of the administrator. You should try emailing them and telling them that the CAPTCHA isn’t letting actual humans through.

Posted by Mr_Murder on September 22nd, 2009 at 7:28 am:

Oh, where is Acyd Burn?

Posted by TechyQ on September 27th, 2009 at 12:14 am:

Hi!! I see your pic and all look so young!! make me feel an old lady!! πŸ™‚ I am new at this, and learning on the way, please is there some simple way to learn to manage the forum?? I am having some trouble and dont know where to start…. any help will be welcomed. Thanks

Posted by sayakb on October 2nd, 2009 at 6:30 pm:

Lol Yuriy, is that a somehowFlattened() cotton candy? πŸ˜€ :p

Posted by Download Tibia on November 24th, 2009 at 2:54 am:

You guys look funny together. πŸ˜›

Posted by PHP Form on January 23rd, 2010 at 1:12 pm:

Thank you for the work!

Posted by Coert on February 10th, 2010 at 1:58 am:

@ TechyQ

http://www.phpbb.com/support/tutorials/3.0/

Posted by Candy Floss Machine on February 16th, 2010 at 9:52 am:

Hey, I just tried to send a msg to you in relation to an issue I had relating to this page, however I can’t fully find out a way to talk to you. If you can view my e-mail address, can you shoot me a email? Thanks.

Posted by wilsonmwiti on March 1st, 2010 at 8:58 am:

Wonderful Team!!!
Hoping to invite you here in Kenya..
Blog more souls!
Thank you guys!

Posted by Cullen's Musings » Blog Archive » phpBB Libertyvasion Announced on March 13th, 2010 at 5:40 am:

[…] organisation of a conference last summer and instead held or participated in some smaller events (The Management/Developer Meeting, OSCON, etc.). We have been accumulating our excitement and are determined to make up for lost time […]

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[…] to get to know each other. Based on that experience the phpBB Development and Management TeamsΒ have met for a few days of discussions and coding last summer. I believe that regular meetings of this kind […]

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