JourFixe-2018-09-24

Date and place

Monday, September 24, 2018 from 13:00 – 17:50 at ILIAS-Verein office in Köln

Participants

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1 Appointments

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2 Maintained Versions

2.1 Roadmap

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:

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) 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.

2.4 Open Pull Requests to Discuss

2.5 Continuous Integration

3 Developing 5.4

3.1 Release Cycle for Version 5.4

In accordance with the Technical Board the product manager decided to set the documentation of implementation of a feature as another requirement to get an implemented feature into trunk. This information helps testers to understand the feature they have to test and improves the understanding of the feature for users. This requirement is effective from ILIAS version 5.4. Similar to test cases and approval, the documentation of implementation on the feature wiki page needs to be completed until October 29, 2018 for version 5.4.

3.2 Status of Development

Number of features scheduled for ILIAS 5.4 and their status this morning:

Notice: Features currently assigned to categories B to H have to be in the trunk until October 29, 2018 to become part of the official 5.4 release.

3.3 Development Issues in 5.4

3.4 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. Support Filters in Manage-Tab of Categories : We highly appreciate the suggestion to add a filter to the manage tab of categories (FR renamed accordingly) and to introduce a new filter element "Last Access Before" for 5.4. Due to the missing online-offline-centralisation, we skip the request for an "Online/Offline" filter.

2. Tagging in Categories : We highly appreciate this FR and schedule it for 5.4 with the reason from the last scheduling. Please use the new UI Input Tag for this implementation.

3. Tree Behavior for Categories with Huge Amounts of Data : We re-schedule the feature for 5.4. A new explorer tree implementation still is not available. Please improve the labels of the setting to make clear that the maximum number of items is always related to one single node in the repository (and not to sub-items).

4. Uploading Images for Presenting Objects in Deck of Cards (Tile View) :
   We highly appreciate this FR and schedule it for 5.4 with the following changes:

   • The upload form for the tile image should be moved to the first sub-tab of Settings in section "Presentation". Same should happen with the custom icon (for category, courses and groups).
   • Instead of a color-picker or a drop-down for colours we just use one colour per object type and define the colour in CSS (please re-use less variables for extended-color-variants.
5. New tab ‘Media‘ and revised tab ‘Questions‘ :We highly appreciate this FR and schedule it for 5.4 with the following changes:

   • We create a new tab "Media" and move "Subtitles Media" from "Settings" to it.
   • The order of tabs is changed as follows: Content | Media | Questions | Info | Settings | ...

6. Streamlining Checklists : We highly appreciate this suggestion and schedule it for 5.4. Stefan Meyer as maintainer of the course appreciates this suggestion as well. Thanks to Oliver for pushing the streamlining of ILIAS.

7. Select All on top of tables : We highly appreciate this suggestion and schedule it for 5.4 but with the following change: please place the checkbox left of "Name" to save a whole line (so called "OpenCast approach").

8. Tooltips for Topbar Entries : We highly appreciate this suggestion and schedule it for 5.4 with the following changes / clarifications:

   • Tooltips shall be activated / deactivated through a checkbox in "Personal Settings".
   • Clicking on the help glyph starts help immediately (Topics).

9. Presentation of the iCal URL : We highly appreciate this suggestion and schedule it for 5.4. Please use the 'Link to Page' UI element for the iCal path.

10. Clickable Links in Personal Profile :  We highly appreciate this suggestion and schedule it for 5.4 with the following changes:

    • The existing e-mail input field in user data will offer entered addresses as mailto link.
    • Adding URLs to websites as UDF will only be supported if UDF will be migrated to Custom Metadata for users (needs additional feature request for 6.0).

11. Let Containers decide on Availability for Sub-Objects : We highly appreciate this suggestion and schedule it for 5.4.

    Postponed to next Jour Fixe

12. Reduce Functionality in »Corrections«-tab :

    • Feature presented by Heyser, Björn [bheyser]
    • Slot length: 30'

4 Miscellaneous

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