JourFixe-2016-05-23

Date and place:

• Monday, May 23, 2016 from 12:30 – 17:30 at ILIAS-Verein office in Köln

• Amstutz, Timon [amstutz] (per Skype), Killing, Alexander [alex], Tödt, Alexandra [atoedt], Klees, Richard [rklees], Kunkel, Matthias [mkunkel], Meyer, Stefan [smeyer], Schmid, Fabian [fschmid] (per Skype), Vollbach, Guido [gvollbach], 

1 Appointments

• June 06, 2016: Jour Fixe
• June 20, 2016: Jour Fixe
• July 04, 2016: Jour Fixe
• August 26, 2016: Deadline test cases for 5.2 and feature approval
• August 31, 2016: 5.2.0 beta1
• September 07, 2016: DevConf Utrecht

2 Maintained Versions

2.1 Roadmap

Last releases:

• ILIAS 5.1.6 published at May 19, 2016
• ILIAS 5.0.12 published at May 06, 2016
• ILIAS 4.4.14 published at March 01, 2015

• ILIAS 5.1.7 is scheduled for July 2016
• ILIAS 5.0.13 is not scheduled yet
• ILIAS 4.4.15 is scheduled for May 25, 2016

2.2 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:

• #18422: Potenzielle Sicherheitslücke: Anzeige von Kursdaten ohne Login: Problem that Anonymous gets search results will be fixed. Object-specific permission checks will be postponed and need additional funding to be implemented (-> feature wiki).…
• #18295: Modal needed after answered last question: postponed to next JF when Björn attends the meeting.
• #18369: Prevent downloading of videos via context menu: We cannot prevent downloading of videos in general by deactivation the Context Menu. Additionally, the context menu provides a lot of other useful features. Deactivating the context menu in general for an installation per setting in Administration is considered as a feature request.

2.3 Open Pull Requests

• PR194: Rules for the ./src-Folder and the ILIAS namespace : Highly appreciated. Can be merged in the trunk at any time.
• PR161: Dependency Injection for trunk : Will be updated by Richard and then assigned to Alex (who clarifies last aspects with Stefan and Jörg before merging PR).

2.4 Continuous Integration

Overview on current status and reports from CI-server at http://ci.ilias.de:

• Result of last test at 2016-05-23:
  • Tests failed: 130 (130 at last JF)
  • Tests passed: 457 (457 at last JF)
• Dicto architectural tests: 
  • reimplementation in progress: php-dicto (Richard needs support - Guido will help him)
  • proof of concept: (incorrect) first results

3 Kitchen Sink

DIscussion and decision upon the following UI Kitchen Sink issues:

1. Next step in Centralizing UI-Components: Centralizing UI-Components : Richard gaves us an update of the current concepts, esp. for interfaces. He proposes immutable component representations and showed us implementation examples for the Factory interface, Component interface and Renderer interface. We highly appreciate his suggestions and kindly ask him to continue his work.
2. KS-Entry: Reporting Panel

4 Developing ILIAS 5.2

4.1 PHP 7

Current state of getting ILIAS PHP7 compliant:

• Funding: crowdfunding completed - see http://www.ilias.de/docu/goto_docu_dcl_3700_747.html
• PHP7 Branch: has been merged into trunk
• Current status: ongoing
  • Fabian Schmid: ilPDO almost implemented. Several new failed CI tests due to missing DB connection. DB problems should be reported to Mantis from now on. High coverage (70%) of unit tests for current implementation.
  • Guido suggests to separate ressources intensive unit tests from other unit tests to avoid an increasing workload of the CI server for every test run.
• Next steps: problems should be posted to Dev list.

4.2 Development Issues 5.2

Notice for developers: please add all suggestions for changed defaults to page Default Database Template Settings for 5.2 !

Development issues to be discussed / to be decided upon:

• none

4.3 Testing 5.2

• A test52 installation using PHP 5.5 has been set up and is available at: www.ilias.de/test52. We will change to PHP7 with 5.2.0_beta1 at the latest.
• Test rail is open for creating new test cases and improving existing ones for version 5.2.

4.4 Feature Requests To Decide Upon

The following features have been set on the agenda to be discussed and to force their scheduling for version 5.2:

1. Support galera cluster for MySQL: Stefan gave a short overview of the current implementation:
   • Primary keys have been introduced
   • He got an ILIAS running on Galera.
   • About 100 transactions need to be re-written.
   • Stefan suggest to offer experimental support status for Galera for 5.2. A final decision if Galera is fully supported has to be taken after additional tests and first experiences with Galera support in practise.
   • We highly appreciate this feature and schedule Galera support for 5.2.
2. Data Collection: Add field with dropdown-menu - without a second table : We highly appreciate this request and schedule it for 5.2. We would like to have solution B and have the creation and edit process for the dropdown entries in the form where I add the field (using the multiple input form element). A related table will be created automatically in the background (like currently done manually) so no need of the data structure is necessary.
3. DataCollection: Using ? in table title : We highly appreciate this feature request and schedule it for 5.2. Please provide a blacklist of "Forbidden characters" under the title input to avoid future bug reports.
4. DataCollection: Multiple Views for a DataCollection Table : Martin presented us the concept of the multiple views for a DC table (see PDF above). We see the need of this extension but have some questions:
   • We would like to have a clear vision on how the Detailed View is tackled by this concept: does every table view gets a proper detailed view (and is it edited in the table view settings?) Or do I assign an existing detailed view with one or more table views? How do we handle permalinks to detailed views if detailed views are role-sensitive?
   • The screen on page 11 has to be separated into one for the form and one for the table to avoid two submit buttons.
   • Martin and Matthias will have a VC to find a solution and present it at the next JF.
5. Remove Info Tab For Selected Object Types and Improve Info-Tab for Selected Objects: We had a longer discussion of the both related feature requests. But we unable to find a solution and therefore postpone the discussion. Objections are:
   • With a general removal of the Info page we get lost of a screen that exists for every object and could be improved in the future (Cover paradigm).
   • We loose the only place user could be dumped to in case of emergency.
   • Notes and comments should have an own place to be presented outside the Actions dropdown.
   • The suggestion to make the presentation of the Info page configurable per object is considered by some as even worse.
   • The suggestion to show object information like "Object ID" or "Created by" on a "Properties" tab in Settings is not accepted by all. Info page should not only focus on the "learner" but also on the "teacher".
   • All objects with custom metadata and LOM metadata would have no place anymore to present this data if the Info screen disappears.
6. Administrators can text Reminder E-Mail of Surveys : We highly appreciate the feature request and schedule it for 5.2.

Additional Feature Requests

1. Hide News Older than X Days
2. Streamlining Tabs and Tables in Test and Survey
3. Bulletin presentation for Survey Results
4. Revamp Indication of Questions Blocks
5. Improving the Printing of Survey Results
6. E-Mail notification to the participant of a survey
7. List of participants in an anonymous survey
8. Course-badge awarded for selected set of completed objects
9. Multiple Accounts for a User
10. Test: Don’t show Feedback button when there is no feedback
11. User management: Improve user export and import
12. Improve Session Ending
13. Improvement of import and export - I kindly ask our programmers to contribute to/discuss this feature request. Thanks!
14. Style Editor: Extensible Character Formats
15. Visibility of objects in courses/groups
16. Exercise Points
17. Learning Progress Mode «Visited» for HTML-Learning Module
18. Support galera cluster for MySQL
19. Scheduled Reminders
20. Mail from Course Members Gallery
21. Printable Member List for Members
22. Additional sorting options for My Courses and Groups
23. Usability Improvements of Personal Profile
24. Group Templates
25. Customisable Main Menu
26. Groups and Courses: News Timeline
27. Sichtbarkeit von Feldern Rechte-/Rollenbasiert anzeigen
28. Dropdownmenu to choose between mark, score, percentage
29. [[[Project] LTI Support in ILIAS]]
30. Interactive Video
31. Extract Test Results from the Participant tab and make a separate Tab of it
32. Renaming the Exercise Object
33. Add field with dropdown-menu - without a second table
34. Booking Pool: Adding more than one booking object at a time
35. Booking Pool: Assign Booking Objects to Participants
36. Booking Tool: Filter by date and time
37. Booking Tool: Possibility to surpress expired bookings in reservation-list
38. Don’t show Feedback button when there is no feedback
39. Gender-sensitive address for automatically generated e-mail in gender languages
40. Harmonize Approval and Waiting List Process in Courses/Group
41. Improve subject line in mail notifications for forum postings
42. Mark scheme for exercises
43. E-Mail notification to the participant of a survey
44. List of participants in an anonymous survey
45. Learning Communities
46. Modifications of the Who is online? - Tool as outlined in the discussion on the Who is online? tool for awareness - page / Who-Is-Online: Usability Improvements and Advanced Options
47. Dedicated permission for adding and editing metadata
48. OAuth1 and OAuth2
49. Page List : Numbered List
50. Auto-Remind Members about Workload
51. User-Import-interface
52. poster image for videos
53. Copy and Paste elements in ILIAS Page Editor
54. Refactoring of ILIAS Setup
55. Extended Translation Functionality for Container
56. Administrators can text Reminder E-Mail of Surveys
57. Streamlining Tabs and Tables in Test and Survey
58. Revamp Indication of Questions Blocks
59. Bulletin presentation for Survey Results
60. Improving the Printing of Survey Results
61. Changing operator of taxonomies from OR to AND
62. Restrict Tagging to certain objects or use permissions
63. Hide answer options for diagnostic tests
64. Text field as answer option in single choice question for diagnostic tests
65. Revision of Less Variables for Typographical Elements
66. Second email address for user accounts
67. Multiple Choice - Restrict Maximum Selectable Options
68. Add Intended Audience as Course Information
69. Show Points from Sub Trees
70. Administrate Individual Plan for Sub Trees
71. Show Members in Superordinate Nodes
72. Learning objective driven study programme
73. Additional Information in Members Tab of Study Programme
74. Plugins for Org Units
75. More Types for UDF-Fields
76. Show all User Data in Learning Progress User- and Matrixview
77. Linking Booking Pools to Courses
78. Location Multi-Part Custom Metadata
79. KS-Entry: Reporting Panel
80. Localization for Date Format
81. offline e-exams
82. Revision of Info Page
83. Remove Info Tab For Selected Object Types
84. Improve Info-Tab for Selected Objects
85. Course: Precondition Minimal Time Spent / Time Counter
86. Certificates: Automatic Mails
87. Course-badge awarded for selected set of completed objects
88. Portfolio Badges
89. Learning Module Badges
90. Activity Badges
91. New Page Element »My Badges« for Portfolios
92. DataCollection: Implement Asynchronous XLS-Export
93. Change Permission to insert an object from MediaPool to the ILIAS Page Editor
94. KS-Entry: Cards
95. KS-Entry Deck of Cards
96. KS-Entry: Instructional Overlay
97. "Is-dirty" Mode for Tests
98. KS-Entry: Datagrid
99. KS-Entry: Textparagraph
100. KS-Entry: Charts
101. Instance Link Areas in Portfolio / Portfoliotemplates
102. KS-Entry: Toolbar
103. Introduction of TaskManager
104. OER-infrastructure
105. Sorting of blocks in courses and groups
106. Improved Separating Submission and Navigation
107. Plugin Slot for PDF generation
108. Server-Side MathJax Rendering
109. Include group memberships in course member export
110. Expand to getExcerciseXML to export more user data
111. Include wiki page title in HTML title

4.5 Lists of Suggested Features

The following lists are auto-generated and show all feature requests that are already marked with the metadata ‘Suggestions for 5.2’ but not scheduled yet. If you want the Jour Fixe to discuss one of these requests, just add the feature title to the list above.

Suggested features for 5.2 with announced funding

Suggested features for 5.2 with partly funding

Suggested features for 5.2 that require funding

4.6 Features suggested to abandon

5 Miscellaneous

Brainstorming

• Improve Session Ending - postponed to a later JF
• Improvement of import and export - postponed to a later JF

Development Support

• Linking to "ilDoc" from GitHub is highly appreciated. Matthias will add a link.

Next Jour Fixe

Monday, June 06, 2016, from 12h30 until 17h30 at the office of ILIAS-Verein in Cologne.