What is the APBoard and who is Christin Löhner?

The APBoard was a very extensive, modular discussion forum system with portal, news, polls, private messages, many plugins and addons and much much more. Back in 1999, when it was built by Christin (aka Alexander Mieland), it was revolutionary.
Christin Löhner was formerly known as Alexander Mieland (dma147). As Alexander, or dma147, she built the first APBoard with PHP3 in 1999 and continued to develop it all by herself until 2002. Then Lacritima, Relict and Funlex joined her and helped her to develop the APBoard further. One of the first APBoard versions later became the very famous Woltlab Burning Board (version wwb1, later versions were completely redeveloped). In a very short time, a huge and great community formed around the APBoard. Many hundreds of thousands of people actively participated in the support forum and the APBoard was downloaded, installed and used millions of times. For some time even the game company Ubisoft used the APBoard for their support forum. Since 2006 the APBoard was not further developed and discontinued. But since 2000 until today there is one APBoard that keeps online quite persistently and successfully: http://www.rcpanzer.de/apboard/.
Christin is a woman with a trans* past. She changed her first name and gender registration in 2016, which explains the name change from Alexander to Christin. In 2018, she had gender reassignment surgery and has since fully arrived as a woman. Since then, she has been fighting for rights, a better life, and less discrimination against trans* people. You can read more about her here: https://r3y.de/ich (german)
The old APBoard lay in the back corner on a backup disk for many, many years. But now Christin has brought it out again. In honor of rcpanzer.de and because she just finds it exciting to get her old software working again under current circumstances, she wants to revive the APBoard and develop it further under uptodate environments.
Christin has now, in 2023, tried for a few weeks to bring this old APBoard to a current state. But she has come to the conclusion that it makes no sense. Instead, she started from scratch and created the APBoard The Next Generation. Start was at 12th June 2023... 
Christin uses Gitlab as her Git server for the development of the APBoard. This Gitlab server is hosted and maintained by Christin herself. Likewise, all developer instances (for example https://christin.apboard.de or also https://main.apboard.de) are hosted by Christin on the same server.
In Git she currently has four branches: main, dev, christin and apboard3.
Each developer who wants to participate in the bug fixing and further development gets his own branch and subdomain, into which his own branch is automatically deployed.
The development flow looks like this:
- the developer has to take care that his branch is always up to date with the branch „dev“.- the developer fixes bugs or builds a new feature in his own branch.- on his own developer subdomain he can test himself if the feature he builds works.- when he is done and has tested everything, the developer may merge into the dev branch.- then the developer should initiate a review and ask Christin to take a look at it.- if everything is OK and works, then Christin merge the changes into the main branch. 
If YOU would like to be a part of this and help us fix bugs or further develop the APBoard, please contact Christin ([e-mail]). She will then initiate everything else.
Christin uses Visual Studio Code on her Ubuntu machine for development. If you also want to use VSC, she can give you tips on which settings and extensions are useful.

APBoard是一款功能极为丰富、模块化的讨论论坛系统，集门户、新闻、投票、私信、众多插件和附加组件等功能于一身。追溯至1999年，由Christin（又名Alexander Mieland）所构建，它堪称革命性的创举。

Christin Löhner（前名Alexander Mieland，网名dma147）曾独立使用PHP3开发了首个APBoard版本，并自1999年起独自对其进行开发，直至2002年。此后，Lacritima、Relict和Funlex加入其行列，协助进一步发展APBoard。其中，APBoard的早期版本之一后演变为广受欢迎的Woltlab Burning Board（版本wwb1，后续版本已完全重新开发）。在极短的时间内，围绕APBoard形成了一个庞大而杰出的社区。成千上万的人积极参与支持论坛，APBoard被下载、安装和使用数以百万次。甚至游戏公司Ubisoft也曾使用APBoard作为其支持论坛。自2006年起，APBoard并未继续开发，现已停用。但自2000年至今日，仍有一个APBoard持续且成功地保持在线：http://www.rcpanzer.de/apboard/。

Christin是一位有着跨性别经历的女士。她在2016年更改了姓名和性别登记，因此从Alexander更名为Christin。2018年，她接受了性别重置手术，并自此完全以女性的身份出现。自那时起，她一直在为跨性别者的权利、更美好的生活以及减少对跨性别者的歧视而奋斗。更多关于她的信息，您可以在此阅读：https://r3y.de/ich（德语）。

APBoard的旧版本在许多年中被保存在备份磁盘中，位于角落。但现在，Christin将它重新启用。为了纪念rcpanzer.de，以及她在当前环境下重新激活旧软件的兴奋，她希望复兴APBoard，并在最新的环境下进一步开发。

到了2023年，Christin尝试了几周时间，试图将这个旧APBoard恢复到当前状态。但最终她得出结论，这样做没有意义。因此，她从零开始，创建了APBoard的下一代。这一创举始于2023年6月12日...

Christin使用Gitlab作为APBoard开发的Git服务器。这个Gitlab服务器由Christin本人托管和维护。同样，所有开发者实例（例如https://christin.apboard.de或https://main.apboard.de）也由Christin在同一服务器上托管。

在Git中，她目前有四个分支：main、dev、christin和apboard3。

任何希望参与bug修复和进一步开发的开发者都将获得自己的分支和子域名，其中他的分支会自动部署到该子域名。

开发流程如下：
- 开发者需确保其分支始终与分支“dev”保持同步。
- 在自己的分支中修复bug或构建新功能。
- 在自己的开发者子域名上自行测试所构建的功能是否正常。
- 完成测试后，开发者可以将更改合并到dev分支。
- 然后开发者应发起审查，并请求Christin审阅。
- 如果一切正常且功能正常工作，那么Christin将合并更改到main分支。

如果您希望加入我们，帮助修复bug或进一步开发APBoard，请联系Christin（[e-mail]）。她将启动其他一切事宜。

Christin在她的Ubuntu机器上使用Visual Studio Code进行开发。如果您也想使用VSC，她可以提供有关哪些设置和扩展有用的建议。