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Yup please please, don't overdo the i18n system. Don't cut phrases into small pieces, and don't over-reuse phrases out of context.

Some languages have very different grammatical system, syntax rules, and such. It's much, much better to have to re-write a word a dozen times around while localizing, than having to go around the system or butcher the localization because of the system used.

No, but before switching my active forums to 1.3 I will wait until it was deployed on a large scale without issue, plus some time necessary to re-create the stylesheets and turn some hacks into plugins.

But overall no, 1.2 has major issues bugging me.

Why not set an appropriate meta description? Dynamically, based on what's on the page (thread view, forums, view, etc.)?

I don't know if DB is the only scope of this plugin, but if so it would be nice to rename it to a more precise title (to backup a Pun install, one has to save more than just the database).

In any case, nice work on the remote storage of the dump.

Another, largely recognized as poor, forum software suposed wrong doesn't mean Pun _should_ correct it. maybe it's not under Pun's scope, for example? No?

That may be a good one, I haven't checked it myself... I'm sure a lot of other people have but still, I'll look into it for my own curiosity and possible improvement reports.

Given that's now a de facto standard, and more or less open, and given the fact 99% of forum user will want their forums indexed, having it in the core would indeed be a good thing.

Beside, it's not long or difficult to do.

RSS isn't a major part of anything, and there's no such thing as ?Web 2.0?. On top of that, RSS specs are inexistant, to the point where some RSS author have given up and switched to Atom. Atom is good, but it isn't a major part of anything either.

Thank god most software don't work like phpbb.

But there's plenty of other forum software, some incredibly faster, ligther and more secure than phpbb. Pun is one of them, or maybe just The One.

bbcode is another thing phpbb will have to answer to when it's dead. bbcode that's just a lame, lazy developer who, once upon a time, thought: ?oh, allowing html is bad, it can break things. Ok I won't bother filtering out the bad or in the good, I'll just forbid everything <>. Oh, user are asking for some feature... bah, let's now use [], and some über limited syntax of a tiny part of the current html. Someone will fix this whole thing in the future?. And it stuck.

Not much to do with philosophy. True open source software tend just to be cheaper to create, support, use, and overall of better quality.

There's exceptions everywhere, of course.

Community support is vital for an open source internet software. Pun has quite a good community.

Overall, before spamming your things, and talking phpbb-ish only, maybe you should inquire yourself about where your post, and what it's about.

This couldn't be done at punbb.org? Less forums/sites to check on a single topic would be better for everyone, in my humble opinion.

I think one of the dev wanted to do Multigroup too.

There's also localized URL scheme.

It depends on your country. Things may be very different from Oregon US to France to Japan to Slovenia.

In any cases, regarding legal advice, you should go see a licensed expert on the field. ?I've seen it on a web board? is not an accepted apology in front of a judge, or an IRS agent

Basically:

Newbie need to encode entities if they use one (&<>) in the description, which should be explained in the manual/install process and should be rare.

Advanced users need to be able to use tags in description, <cite> or <a> being probably the most common.

And it's more work to have it both way (encode automatically for newcomers, extended for the others).

Which will be the case of nearly everyone when they update from 1.2 to 1.3.

Maybe you could do something like:

If a clean url scheme is used
And if current url is raw

Then process the raw url through the clean_url function
and send a HTTP permanent redirect header with the clean url pointer

With hooks in there, so that people could have extensions in there to do more redirect or whatever, if they want.

Will one conditional check (perhaps of a simple string, like "is the first word of the local part of the url ends with .php?" or whatever) slow things down that much?

What for? Why would they do that?

I was going to answer point by point, especially with that amount of wrapping around my meaning, I even read again the appropriate RFC. Then, I saw that I'm closed minded and xenophobic, so I won't bother.