<div dir="ltr">The conversion from phpBB2 to phpBB3 is pretty straightforward, and is explained here:<div><a href="https://www.phpbb.com/community/docs/INSTALL.html#convert">https://www.phpbb.com/community/docs/INSTALL.html#convert</a><br>
</div><div><br></div><div>The issue here is the forum theme. I had done some work on a phpBB3 theme... it's incomplete, but it's a good starting place:</div><div><a href="https://github.com/bluegr/scummvm-phpBB3-theme">https://github.com/bluegr/scummvm-phpBB3-theme</a><br>
</div><div><br></div><div>Also, note that the old <a href="http://sf.net">sf.net</a> archives are a separate script, with separate tables, thus they can be left as they are:</div><div><a href="http://forums.scummvm.org/archives.php">http://forums.scummvm.org/archives.php</a><br>
</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>A good plan to upgrade, IMHO, would be:</div><div>1) create a separate subdomain for the phpBB3 forums, e.g. <a href="http://forums3.scummvm.org">forums3.scummvm.org</a> and copy over the forum files to that subdomain.</div>
<div>Max did make such a subdomain for this purpose. I can't remember which one it was</div><div>2) Copy over the database to a new test database</div><div>3) Perform the upgrade in the test subdomain, checking for any issues that may arise. The theme can be processed better that way</div>
<div>4) Once all work is completed, the update can be done in the actual live forums, without any downtime or issues.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Do note that the persons who perform the conversion process and tests will need:</div>
<div>1) administrative access to the forums</div><div>2) an FTP account for both subdomains</div><div>3) credentials for a test database</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>I can help with the process, it's something that I've dealt with again in the past.<br>
</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Regards</div><div>Filippos</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Dec 25, 2013 at 9:38 AM, Eugene Sandulenko <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sev@scummvm.org" target="_blank">sev@scummvm.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hi Team,<div><br></div><div>We're stuck on ancient phpBB2 and that is hurting us. Spammers are active like there is no tomorrow and we're getting tens of bot registration attempts daily.</div>
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</div><div>Also our current user base is infested with all those bot accounts which pop up from time to time (delayed spamming) and start their job.</div><div><br></div><div>So we really really need to switch from phpBB2 to something else.</div>
<div><br></div><div>This came so much to me that I am willing to do the work by myself if nobody would volunteer.</div><div><br></div><div>I know that in the past there were several attempts to do that, so please contact me and provide me with any information/work in progress which you have.</div>
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<div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Eugene</div></font></span></div>
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