George has finished developing all of the Milestone 1 features! Right now we are in the process of verifying the release and last-minute bugfixing, but the release of this milestone, also known as “m2f 2.0a4″ (Alpha 4), is imminent.

Beta testers: You’ll have work to do pretty soon! We submitted a new page into our documentation : v2.0 troubleshooting. This page includes bug reporting, testing environment resetting, etc. If you are a beta-tester (and thus member of the beta testers group in the forum), be sure to read that guide and comment!

Oh, and by the way, for sanity’s sake George has improved the configuration procedure for phpBB installations – no more host-key copying&pasting! You can review the updated install instructions on the m2f installation page.

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While George is busy building the threading functionality in SVN, I did a hell of a cleanup in our different information spaces:

• Reactivated the m2f wiki as READ-ONLY. This site has some good information for m2f 1.2, although some of it is outdated. It has been hammered a lot by spammers though, and maintainance was a pain, so I just turned it back on READ-ONLY.
• Added and polished several sections of the 2.0 development page. Be sure to check out the new m2f 2.0 design and the m2f 2.0 threading uses cases pages.
• Cleaned up and updated the announcements in the v1.2 and v2.0 development forums with download, install, etc. instructions (Note that v2.0 developers forum is accesible only for users in the developers group).
• Did other smaller housekeeping tasks.

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Dear m2f’ers, the first milestone is VERY near! We’ll release an private alpha-quality build to developers and the beta-tester team with preliminar functionality:

• Basic Mail to Forum using POP3,SMTP,Sendmail,mbox,phpBB2 and phpBB3
• Some basic channels like FileWriter (Export), Random Text Generator (Import)
• Basic RSS Feed import to any functional export channel (SMTP,phpBBx,FileWriter).
• Forum mirroring! Watch phpBB2 and phpBB3 talk together.
• Basic Admin Control Panel
• Message threading

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Probably binding mailing lists and forums is a pretty old idea, but the first time it shed some light on phpBB was thanks to an original idea by “danyblue” from the phpBB forum (Thread here). Yes, actually this took place on 2002!!

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Hi again!

So, for this, the first real post in our new Development Blog, I’d like to fill you in on what I’ve been up to PHP-wise in recent weeks.

Alpha 3 was released about 12 weeks ago (Jan 23rd). It was the first release of v2.0 that had really started to look like a useful application, with phpBB integration working in some respects (albeit missing some features and a bit buggy). However, soon after the alpha was released I kind of hit a brick wall with my coding. I kept coming up against problems with the OOP nature of my design that I couldn’t overcome, and I was starting to make some bad decisions to avoid them.

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Hello!

A very warm welcome to the m2f Development Team’s new blog. We have set this up primarily as a means to keep you updated on our progress, but also to explain and explore some of the design concepts and decisions we have been working on.

Pda0 and I will endeavour to post here fairly frequently, so why not subscribe to the RSS feed to receive instant updates?

Remember, during the Alpha/Beta development phase, you can join in group discussions by emailing to beta@mail2forum.com. Bugs, Issues and Feature Requests should be posted to the m2f 2.0 tracker.