Yeah, this is exactly correct. You cannot go straight from 3.0.8 to 3.3 in a single jump (donāt be fooled by the small jump in version numbers; 3.0.8 and 3.3 are 15 years apart) - thereās too many schema changes which the developers expected people to upgrade incrementally over the years. So youād have to upgrade many, many times, reading changelogs of each intermediate release to see if that point release required any breaking changes or schema updates. Especially in the early days of phpBB, even a minor point upgrade could be gnarly, requiring manual database interventions (especially since L19 has a few āmodsā from before official mods were a thing, which means they consist of haphazard modifications to templates and code).
And some of these upgrades wonāt just be phpBB upgrades but Apache, PHP, and MySQL upgrades as well, since the minimum requirements for each of those have gone up over the years.
The biggest wrinkle is that some of the intermediate upgrades between 3.0.8 and 3.3 are not even being distributed anymore. I think if I can get from 3.0.8 to 3.1.0 (2014) cleanly, then I can use an official upgrade pack from that point forward. But the releases between those two points are not officially distributed anymore and I think predate phpBBās migration to git, so Iāll have to track them down on archive sites somehow.
So yes, Vassili62ās description is accurate. I will find time to do it eventually but until then help would be appreciated.
(On a bright note, L19 has been back up for 6 or so hours and the instance is still at normal CPU levels, so thatās a good sign )
Iāve put up a proper error page on the L19 domain this time, at least, so people know whatās going on. Iāll try to re-prioritize this to have it done before October, if nobody else with the relevant experience volunteers soon-ish.
Why? As long as L19 has these problems and as long those who have volunteered to make L19 work have no other place for the necessary āproject managementā this thread should be easy to read, with no distractors from the actually important points.
And then there are moderators ā¦ I remember āKirbyā
How about you, @Uberdude ā¦ IIRC (yet faintly) you wrote that you coded something for L19? Would that make you also a team member? Or are you a moderator anyway?
I would suggest that āTeam L19ā finds some safe and quiet place to plan and discuss things, like, either:
a Channel on Discord (or Slack, but IIRC that has to be paid-for, not sure though),
or a Group in something like Signal (or Telegram, but TG is not as secure IMHO)
Of course this presupposes that all of you have an account on either of these services, but that way you could focus on whatās to be done without interruptions, and one of you could off and on update us all here (or, perhaps, on L19 again finally).
IMO another nice thing would be if L19 could send out ONE mail to every member, telling them that L19 isnāt dead but only comatose, and the ICU is working hard on saving it. AND maybe also ask for phpBB experts!
I am a moderator there, mostly deleted spam. Donāt recall doing any coding, I think Kirby had more access and did some technical things. Unfortunately not a phpBB expert.
Yep - I am an admin on L19. I implemented the go diagrams and some other stuff on the site. I dounāt think the other admins do much technical stuff. Anyway, I am not a phpBB expert, but I do have a DB export now. I canāt make any promises, but I can see if I can do some sort of upgrade with the DB export that I have to get things running with some newer forum software.
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what was THAT? I was able to play a few moves (though not share a variation), and I could even trigger a level IV analysis.
Or are you a moderator anyway?