JourFixe-2021-10-04

Date and place

Monday, 04 October 2021 from 13:00 - 14:25 as VC meeting in BBB.

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1 Appointments

2 Miscellaneous

Maintainerships

The following maintainerships will change or are offered for takeover by another developer:

1. Authentication service, incl. LDAP, Radius, CAS, SOAPAuth, AuthApache, OpenIdConnect, Init: Stefan Meyer would like to hand over maintainership to interested developer in the nearer future.

   • TB and PM would like to change the maintainership model for authentication to a coordinator model and to handle specific authentication methods (like Apache or ILIASAuth) as related maintainerships.
   • A call for bids for preparing the authentication service for the coordinator model has been published and was extended to 12 July 2021.
   • No offers have been handed in yet.

2. Data Collection: Theo Truffer would like to hand over maintainership of the data collection component to an interested developer in the nearer future.

   • Please contact the ILIAS product manager (Kunkel, Matthias [mkunkel]) if you are interested in taking over the maintainership.

3. SCORM Online Editor: Alexander Killing would like to hand over maintainership of the SCORM online editor component to an interested developer in the nearer future.

   • No offers for taking over maintainership have been handed in until today.
   • For decision about Abandon SCORM Online Editor with ILIAS 8, see chap. 4.5 below.

4. User Service: Stefan Meyer would like to hand over maintainership of the component Services/User to an interested developer in the nearer future.

   • Please contact the ILIAS product manager (Kunkel, Matthias [mkunkel]) if you are interested in taking over the maintainership.

5. Object Service: Alexander Killing has removed his implicit maintainership for  Services/Object.

   • Developers willing to take over this maintainership are highly appreciated. Please contact the ILIAS product manager (Kunkel, Matthias [mkunkel]) if you are interested.

Future of Test and ASsessment

The product manager and the Technical Board of the ILIAS Society released a statement about the future of the ILIAS Test and Asssement. We ask everyone to take note of that statement.

3 Maintained Versions

At the time being, we are maintaining ILIAS version 5.4 (until end of 2021), version 6 (until mid 2022) and version 7 (until mid 2023).

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.

3.1 Roadmap

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:

1. #31403: Main Menu Entries are not shown if Permission "Read" is not set: We prefer to extend the permission check to READ _or_ JOIN to support the described use case of Denis (user has permission to access group or course but needs to join first). If we change to check VISIBLE we can no longer realise the popular scenario of "hiding the repository and its objects". If there are no objections against this decision, we ask Fabian to extend the behaviour and to check for JOIN permission, too. After change in code please add a short notice to the release report of the upcoming bug fix release so that all users are aware of this modification.

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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.

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3.5 Open Pull Requests to Discuss

The following pull requests in the ILIAS GitHub repository were marked with 'Jour Fixe' this morning:

1. PR3589 • UI: Add CollapseHorizontalGlyph for use in Mainbar and Drilldown : We highly appreciate this suggestion and accept the PR for trunk. Please check if this new glyph is clearly distinguishable from the glyph Next / Back to prevent problems of interpretation.
2. PR3644 • UI Components: Interface for Button/Minimize : We highly appreciate this suggestion and accept the PR for trunk.
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3.6 Continuous Integration

• We currently have 6721 automated test for the trunk, which is +5 compared to 2021-09-20. Nice!

4 Developing ILIAS 8

4.1 Timeline for ILIAS 8

• Coding completed: all features implemented and test cases finished until January 27, 2022
• Release 8.0 beta1 and release-8 branch planned for January 28, 2022
• Beginn of testing phase scheduled for January 31, 2022
• End of testing phase planned for April 30, 2022
• First stable 8.0 release planned for May 27, 2022
• Planned maintenance for version 8: until Fall 2024

4.2 Software Requirements for ILIAS 8

Required and supported software for ILIAS 8 is as follows:

• ILIAS 8 will support PHP 7.4 and 8.0.
• Support for PHP 7.3 will be dropped!
• PostgreSQL support is suggested to be abandoned.
• OpenJDK 11 shall be supported for ilServer.

4.3 Development Issues

Development issues and topics related to ILIAS versions 8

1. Pascal Seeland, maintainer of the ECS service, announces to abandon the support of the deprecated ECS tokens (not working since ILIAS 5). Institutions still using ILIAS 4.4 [2] can no longer use remote courses on ILIAS 8.

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   JourFixe, ILIAS [jourfixe]: We fully agree with the maintainer and accept to abandon the support of deprecated authentication tokens with ILIAS 8.

4.4 PHP 8 Support for ILIAS 8

4.5 Suggested Features for 8

1. Abandon SCORM Online Editor : On the last JF we set a final deadline for applying for maintainership of this component until today. Due to missing candidates for taking over maintainership we accept to abandon the SCORM online editor with ILIAS 8. The already scheduled feature SCORM Editor: Adding Snippet Content want be implemented as well.

2. Using ILIAS Page Editor to provide general information of Forum : We highly appreciate this suggestion and accept the feature request for ILIAS 8.

3. Expose LOM keywords in HTML header : We highly appreciate this suggestion and schedule the feature for ILIAS 8. We would like to support language and licences with ILIAS 8 as well. And please complete the sections Privacy and Security to finalise the feature request.

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5 Developing ILIAS 9

5.1 Suggested Features for 9

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