Technical Board, 16 FEB 2026 : The Technical Board acknowledges the problem of missing static routes in ILIAS and appreciates the progress already made in recent releases (e.g., permanent links, short links, ilCtrl refactorings and speaking URLs). The TB believes that this project has significant technical relevance and would have deep architectural and strategic impact. Addressing the current routing mechanism’s limitations appears to be a logical continuation of the work carried out in recent years.

At the same time, we are sceptical regarding feasibility at this stage. The proposed migration timeline of “several releases” is too imprecise, no concrete feature requests are available yet, and a comprehensive cost estimation is missing. Since virtually all GUI components would be affected, the effort would require involvement from all component authorities as well as plugin maintainers, and would demand multi-release coordination with substantial human resources and likely significant funding. We also need to assess whether the community can handle this workload alongside other ongoing long-term initiatives (e.g., LUI removal, IRSS migration).

Furthermore, the project mentions transforming reusable GUI layers into proper services, but it remains unclear how this aligns with the current ilCtrl mechanism’s strengths and the existing approach of reusable controllers (GUI classes). The impact could be massive and needs architectural clarification.

In addition, Katholische Hochschule NRW is currently funding a proof of concept (PoC) aimed at gaining a clearer picture of the concrete technical steps involved, the architectural implications, and the level of funding that would realistically be required. Based on this, we suggest postponing a final decision on prioritization until the PoC results provide a more solid foundation for evaluating feasibility and scope.

Overall, we recognize this as an important long-term goal, but cannot provide a final priority recommendation as long as key aspects remain unclear: a realistic timeline, comprehensive cost estimation with secured funding, clarification of architectural questions, and an assessment of community capacity.