-Community Coding Projects Start
September 28, 2005
After almost a year overdue, the phpBB group has chosen to accept help from community members.
Nicknamed the "Community Coding Projects" different people have been selected to code some of the new "features" in phpBB3. Starting today all projects are in the inital draft and have found developers.
-Lead Programmer of phpBB Moves On
September 17, 2005
The lead programmer of phpBB, psoTFX, has quit. psoTFX's real name is Paul Owens. Paul states, “Finally I took the decision I should’ve taken two or three months ago … I quit phpBB. I’m sure some of you, the idiot brigade will say “Good riddens”. Fine, no problem, you probably have the mentality of a deranged gnat (appologies to the gnat) so your opinion counts for … erm … less than nothing”.
“I must admit though the most amusing though equally annoying security related debacle involved PHP itself. Someone linked to that team had an interview published where they called projects such as phpBB amateur in terms of the implementations which led to issues. That whole interview was prompted, I believe, by phpBB placing an announcement concerning a serious (very serious) issue that arose with PHP itself. I
posted that announcement in the hope of spreading the information far and wide … it achieved that aim. I found it actually somewhat pathetic on this persons part to say such things during that interview. He too failed to grasp the idea we’re all faliable. And guess what, a couple of months later we find a serious issue with a PEAR library. What’s more, a month after that’s fixed the same issue resurfaces! So much for this being a ‘phpBB unique’ problem”, Paul stated on his blog.
