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JourFixe-2018-01-08

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Date and place

Monday, January 08, 2018 from 13:00 – 15:30 (due to server breakdown) and at Wednesday, January 10, 2018 from 14:00 – 17:30 at ILIAS-Verein office in Köln

Time

Topic

13:00 - 14:00

1. Appointments
2. Maintained Versions

14:00 - 15:00

3. Publishing 5.3

15:10 - 17:30

4. Developing 5.4

17:30 - 18:00

5. Miscellaneous

Participants

At ILIAS office:Participated via VC:

If you like to participate at the Jour Fixe via Skype, please contact Amstutz, Timon [amstutz] to get invited to the call. His Skype-Username is timon.amstutz

1 Appointments

2 Maintained Versions

2.1 Roadmap

Last releases:
  • ILIAS 5.3.0_beta4 published at December 20, 2017
  • ILIAS 5.2.10 published at November 22, 2017
  • ILIAS 5.1.22 published at December 20, 2017
Next releases:
  • ILIAS 5.3.0 scheduled for January 25, 2017
  • ILIAS 5.2.11 scheduled for January 10, 2018
  • ILIAS 5.1.22 is not scheduled yet

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:

  1. #21583: View of Content-fields: Only 3 lines, then stop with ... : We follow Alexander's suggestion and use https://codepen.io/nilsynils/pen/KgaRBo to solve the display problem. The number of lines should be controlled by the style class in CSS. This class should be a general class that can easily be reused for similar other purposes. We observe the future use of this style to decide if we need a general UI component for this in the future. Bug fix is accepted for 5.3 and trunk.
  2. #21692: Different behaviour when clicking on file-link : We agree with the general idea of handling this problem and will discuss the interface when the Pull Request has been provided by Alexander.
  3. #21781: Newsblock can't show all elements with activated cache : We see a setting to define the max. age of news as a feature request and not as a bugfix. It needs changes in the administration of News, test cases and documentation.
  4. #21936: FullScreen button needed in Openlayers map : We accept this as a usability fix. Please provide a PR for final decision.
  5. #22020: Failed test: ECTS-Noten vergeben : We would like to present only A to E to test participants, added with notice "European Credit Transfer System", but no short or long descripition. The setting screen for mark schema should mention short and long description to give tutors an idea about the meaning of the marks.
  6. #22235: "Persönliches Profil veröffentlichen" erkennen : Currently, we have no other layout solution for a link that opens a new view than the current one. A primary button is not suitable as it is reserved for the major activity on this screen - which would be at least to save the input. We see that we have conceptual problem for information screens like these and already thinking about a solution. But we do not have one we could use for a bug fix. Any support for a future KS element is highly appreciated.
  7. #22313: Since ILIAS 5.2 we have problems with MariaDB/MySQL Master-Slave : We support the removal of OPTIMIZE TABLE in ILIAS. Using this command should be under the responsibility of each web administrator who manages his installations but not ILIAS' duty. Please remove OPTIMIZE TABLE out of your consumer code, then assign bug report to Fabian Schmid who will remove it from DB class.
  8. #22342: Portfolio PDF generation loses background and text color on paragraphs and sections and #22348: PDF Export: Competences / Scale Bars not rendered correctly : We would like to get rid of the style rule for *. Please  remove it for 5.3 and trunk. In case a page editor content should not display background on print, a media query could be introduced for this element. 
  9. #22351: Naming of "Close" Button in modal : Related PR has been merged.
  10. #22052: Essay limited to approx. 4000 characters : After having tested this change of DB field type for 5.3 successfully, we suggest to merge this fix to 5.1 and 5.2, too. Running 5.1 and 5.2 installations should benefit of this bugfix as well.
  11. #22367: Memory leak when exporting user accounts as Excel file: PHP memory_limit could be changed manually on installations where tenthousands of users are exported to Excel. We do not see the current limit as a bug. Concerning the now unmaintained PhpExcel lib: please create a feature request for 5.4 so we can change the library with this major version and use PhpSpreadsheet from then on.
Postponed :
  1. #15334: Ilias 5.0 beta: reporting of results of Captivate/Scorm quizzes : We wait for feedback by maintainer what to decide upon.

2.3 Bugfixing Statistic

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

Responsible Maintainer

Open bugs without feedback

Last JF

ø Age in days

Last JF

Priority bugs and votes *

Last JF

Amstutz, Timon [amstutz]

1

26

Becker, Maximilian [mbecker]

3

4

51

36

2x1v

2x1v

Braun, Jean-Luc [braun]

1

32

1x1v

Hecken, Stefan [shecken]

Heyser, Björn [bheyser]

73

66

64

47

5x2v, 24x1v

5x2v, 24x1v

Jansen, Michael [mjansen]

Killing, Alexander [alex]

17

64

109

54

2x1v

2x1v

Klees, Richard [rklees]

Kohnle, Uwe [ukohnle]

36

39

91

67

Kunkel, Matthias [mkunkel]

2x1v

5

4

46

64

Ahmad, Nadia [nadia]

Meyer, Stefan [smeyer]

11

10

95

88

3x2v, 22x1v

3x2v, 21x1v

Neumann, Fred [fneumann]

Schmid, Fabian [fschmid]

17

5

41

32

1x2v, 1x1v

2x1v

Schneider, Stefan [sschneider]

4

30

12

33

10

8

90

83

Kergomard, Stephan [skergomard]

* Reports set to 'funding needed' are not listed.

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.

2.4 Open Pull Requests to Discuss

The following pull requests in the ILIAS GitHub repository were marked with 'Jour Fixe' this morning:
  1. PR808 • Roundtrip modal interface: cancel button with custom label. : We highly appreciate this suggestion and allow 'Close' as alternative label. PR can be merged in 5_3-release and trunk.
  2. PR809 • UI: Dropzone Wrapper withTitle : We highly appreciate this suggestion. Please merge it in 5.3 and trunk.
Postponed
  1. PR 602 • UI Presentation Table

2.5 Continuous Integration

Overview on current status and reports from CI-server at http://ci.ilias.de:
  • automated tests: 2430 (+23) passing unit tests on PHP 5.6, PHP 7.0, PHP 7.1..
  • results of dicto architectural tests
    • 24 violations (net) resolved since last JF.
    • Please use this script to fix violations of "WholeIliasCodebaseExceptInitialisation cannot depend on GlobalsExceptDIC". It's easy.
  • Performance monitoring:
    • CI-Server (Login as Guest)
    • Colin continued with performance measuring and stated clear performance advantages of php7 - even against hhvm (php7 needs only 75% time of a php5 request compared to 88% with hhvm).

3 Publishing 5.3

3.1 5.3 Release Branch

A release branch release_5-3 for ILIAS 5.3 has been created in GitHub at November 22, 2017. Aim was to open the trunk for new Kitchen Sink elements and commits of new features. This should speed up the development of ILIAS and making new UI elements available for the upcoming 5.4 development. In the future, releases branches will be created with the first beta release of a new ILIAS version. Therefore, trunk will always stay in alpha status.

3.2 List of Features

Coding has been completed for ILIAS 5.3. At least 124 features made it into this new ILIAS version, see list below. A first beta release 5.3.0_beta1 has been published at August 31, 2017.

3.3 Development Issues of 5.3

Please refer always to the related ILIAS 5.3 feature wiki entry and give a statement about what the Jour Fixe should discuss. Issues already treated in a Mantis bug report should be tagged with 'Needs Jour Fixe decicion' and will be handled in TOP 2.2.

  1. none

3.4 Status of Testing

  • The test53 installation is available at: www.ilias.de/test53. This installation does not contain any plugins.
  • Start of testing: September 01, 2017
  • End of regular testing phase: November 17, 2017
  • End of extended testing: November 24, 2017

Status of Test Cases

Today

        %

Compared to DEC 18

• passed

3321

93,92

+ 76

• failed

131

3,70

- 52

• blocked

40

1,13

- 30

• waiting for retest

44

1,24

+ 1

• yet untested

0

0,00

- 2

Total number of test cases

3536

100,00

Top5 of Components with Most Test Cases Set to Failed

Status today and compared to last Jour Fixe

3.5 Status of Documentation

Among the new features for ILIAS 5.3, the following 14 feature pages still have no information about how the feature is implemented. Please add / complete the missing information until January 8th, 2018 to avoid misunderstandings on the feature's new or changed functionality:

4 Developing 5.4

4.1 Feature Requests to be Discussed

The following features suggested for 5.4 were added to the data collection 'Suggestions for Jour Fixe Agenda' to be discussed today (see procedure documented in ILIAS community FAQ):

  1.  Improve Content-Style-Editor : We highly appreciate this suggestion and schedule it for 5.4. Please change the second label on the screen 2.5 "PASTE STYLE..." from "Keep Existing" to "Create a new style class as copy" and append "_COPY" to the inserted style class name. 
  2.  License filter for media objects : We highly appreciate this suggestion and schedule it for 5.4.
  3.  Custom Metadata in Media Pool : We highly appreciate this suggestion and schedule it for 5.4.
  4.  Filter for inserting media objects from media pool : We highly appreciate this suggestion and schedule the feature for 5.4.
  5.  Media Pools: Multiple Media File Import : We highly appreciate this suggestion and schedule it for 5.4.
  6.  Introduction of Question Groups : We had a long discussion about this feature request and its implecations on the test & assessment in general. We need to postpone a final decision about this feature request until we know the results and recommendations of the T&A revision (which will be available end of March at the latest). 

    postponed to next Jour Fixe due to missing time

  7.  Identicon Generator for Object Lead Images : 
  8.  Versioning of Submissions and Gradings for Type Text : 

5 Miscellaneous

Suggestion for new template for Feature Wiki pages
  • In coordination with selected community members Alexandra has worked out an alternative template for the Feature Wiki pages, see here. Major aim is to use more user-friendly language and give a clear idea of what unexperienced feature authors have to fill out and how to proceed. POSTPONED
Next Jour Fixe dates:
  • Monday, January 22, 2017, 13:00 - 18:00 [2]
  • Monday, February 05, 2017, 13:00 - 18:00 (Changed due to Rosenmontag)
  • Monday, February 26, 2017, 13:00 - 18:00
  • Monday, March 12, 2017, 13:00 - 18:00
[1] Bug reports counted only for core project, not for plugins
[2] Changed dates in January due to New Year and Learntec

Last edited: 16. Jun 2025, 12:32, Tödt, Alexandra [atoedt]