JourFixe-2021-05-03

Date and place

Monday, 03 May 2021 from 13:00 – 18:00 as VC meeting in BBB.

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1 Appointments

2 Miscellaneous

Maintainerships

1. Stefan Meyer would like to hand over two maintainerships to interested developers in the nearer future:

   • Authentication, incl. LDAP, Radius, CAS, SOAPAuth, AuthApache, OpenIdConnect, Init
   • ECS (E-Learning Community Server) service

   Anyone who is interested in taking over one of these 1^st maintainerships should contact the product manager and justify her/his interest until 17 MAY 2021.

2. Alexander Killing would like to hand over the maintainerships of

   • External webfeed feature (Services/Feeds, Modules/ExternalFeed) or if there is no interest to Abandon External Webfeeds.

   Anyone who is interested in taking over one of these 1^st maintainerships should contact the product manager and justify her/his interest until 31 MAY 2021.

   JourFixe, ILIAS [jourfixe]: We ask all users that are currently using this feature and want to keep it for feedback in the Abandon FR above.

Workshop "Review Release process"

The University of Hohenheim / Strassner, Denis [dstrassner] suggests a review of the release process. As a university, we are unhappy about the increasingly later timing of the release. We'd like to have a workshop to talk about how to improve that again.

JourFixe, ILIAS [jourfixe]: Idea is highly appreciated. Suggestion will be discussed in next TB meeting tomorrow. Richard and Denis will look for possible dates for a workshop.

3 Maintained Versions

3.1 Roadmap

Due to the extraordinary workload in all e-learning teams based on the Covid pandemia, the technical board and product manager decided to extend the maintenance of ILIAS version 5.4 until end of 2021. This will give all ILIAS using institutions enough time for the migration from 5.4 to 6 or 7.

3.2 Mantis Bug Reports

All open issues reported or modified since the last Jour Fixe were screened by the product manager before the Jour Fixe and assigned to the responsible developers if necessary. The following issues were discussed in detail:

3.3 Bugfixing Statistic

Bug reports[1] set to status 'open' and not been touched by responsible maintainer for more than 21 days (checked this morning) as well as bug reports with priorisation voting:

* New votes: bugs priorised within the last 14 days   ** Old votes: priorised bugs before last JF (older then 14 days)   *** Resolved: Resolved or closed bug reports in the last 14 days

Bug reports with status 'Fixing according to priorisation' should be fixed before other bugs are tackled. Priorised bugs very important for one or more institutional members of the ILIAS society. Handling this reports with low priority contradicts the intention of the established bug fixing process.

3.4 Development Issues of Maintained Versions

The following development issues concern one or more maintained versions. Issues related to upcoming versions have to be added in chapter 4.

1. Kohnle, Uwe [ukohnle]: Basic permissions for owners – streamlined handling of read_outcomes with read_learning_progress: xAPI testing for ILIAS 7 brought up a problem concerning the permissions given to a user due to ownership. Users that had no permissions but only to create an xAPI object got besides the usual permissions like visible, read and delete also the permission read_outcomes. This has been changed now for all maintained versions. From now on, behaviour is similar to the permission to read the learning progress of other users. This permission is not given to owners but has to be granted by a dedicated role.

   JourFixe, ILIAS [jourfixe]: Change is highly appreciated. A short notice on release pages for 7.0 and 6.9 has been added already.

2. Klees, Richard [rklees]: We recently introduced ILIAS 6 to our clients and found some of the features od the Study Programme that have been introduced in ILIAS 6 ridden with bugs. Looking into possible ways to solve the issues, major architectural issues in the Study Programme became appearant. Bugs and issues are present in ILIAS 6 and 7 equally, since no new changes have been introduced to the Study Programme in ILIAS 7. To be able to sustainably solve the issues, we needed to refactor some parts of the Study Programme. I hereby want to announce that we will be commiting these changes and refactorings to ILIAS 7 and ILIAS 6, if no one objects. The results will be subject to our internal QA before we commit them.

   JourFixe, ILIAS [jourfixe]: We accept the suggested refactoring in the study programme code for 6, 7 and trunk to realise the expected behaviour. Please add a short notice to the release report once the changes have been committed.

3.5 Open Pull Requests to Discuss

3.6 Continuous Integration

We kindly ask all developers to use git hooks to be notified automatically when committing code styles violations. Installing git hooks is quite easy now, see https://github.com/ILIAS-eLearning/ILIAS/blob/trunk/docs/development/git-hooks.md and run libs/composer/vendor/bin/captainhook install

4 ILIAS 7 Published

5 Developing ILIAS 8

5.1 Software Requirements for ILIAS 8

5.2 Development Issues

Development issues and topics related to ILIAS versions 8

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   JourFixe, ILIAS [jourfixe]: …

5.3 Suggested Features for 8

1. Cron Job: Delete old or orphaned page history entries : We highly appreciate this suggestion and schedule the feature for ILIAS 8.

2. Page Editor » Page Elements of Portfolios : We highly appreciate this suggestion and schedule the feature for ILIAS 8.

3. Page Editor » Section Editing » Part II  : We highly appreciate this suggestion and schedule the feature for ILIAS 8.

4. Abandon Start Button in Page & List View in ILIAS Test : We highly appreciate this suggestion and abandon the Start button in the Questions tab for ILIAS 8.

5. Abandon Random Selection Button in ILIAS Tests : JourFixe, ILIAS [jourfixe], 03 MAY 2021: We highly appreciate this suggestion and abandon the "Random Selection" button and its function in the Questions tab for ILIAS 8.

6. Abandon Database Benchmark : Fabian Schmid and Timon Amstutz will discuss about a possible future of the feature. Depending on their decision we keep the feature or abandon it.

7. Abandon SCORM Editor HTML Export : We highly appreciate this suggestion and abandon both HTML exports of the SCORM online editor with ILIAS 8.

8. New Survey Mode: Individual Feedback : We highly appreciate this suggestion and schedule the feature for ILIAS 8. Please add additional information about the privacy related storage of personal data (even if these are the same as in a 360° survey) to get a better overview of these data. A general overview per component could be helpful and allow to link to such a page from this section and to add only new stored data in the future.

9. Filter in »My Portfolios« :  We highly appreciate this suggestion and schedule the feature for ILIAS 8.

10. New Mail Template Context: Mail to Evaluate :  We highly appreciate this suggestion and schedule the feature for ILIAS 8.

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