Wow! Very very cool indeed.
> On Nov 4, 2026, at 10:18 PM, Dave Fisher via dev <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
> After many years with only occasional updates to the phpBB:
> https://forum.openoffice.org in the last week I’ve been able to fully script
> all the parts of the update to phpBB 3.3.19. We are ready to act on each
> patch release.
>
> These updates were painful because over time they were increasingly manual
> since we have some complex patching we do to give it our branding and look
> and feel. Minor version updates were hard such as 3.0.9 to 3.3.7
>
> With the latest update I was very careful to build and script each step. The
> forums are now updated.
>
> I’m now polishing https://github.com/apache/openoffice-forums so each
> version's customized phpBB installation can built locally. There are just a
> few more steps to make the installation of a new release include an
> unattended update on the server.
>
> I need to review with Infrastructure the backup policies, but I think we are
> nearly in proper operational shape.
>
> Best,
> Dave
>
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