JourFixe-2020-04-27

Date and place

Monday, April 27, 2020 from 13:00 – 18:00 as VC meeting only.

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1 Appointments

If you want to participate at one of the above mentioned workshops, please register for the related session. This helps to organise the workshop. Thanks!

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

2.6 Performance monitoring:

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3 Publishing ILIAS 6

3.1 Status of Testing

 
48 out of 83 test suites still have test cases with status 'blocked', 'retest' and/or 'failed' while only 35 test suites have 100% passed test cases.

The official test installation for ILIAS version 6 is at https://test6.ilias.de.
 
All test suites to test ILIAS 6 are available in our Testrail installation. Please contact our test manager Kruse, Fabian [Fabian] if you want to join our testing team.
 
Testing of ILIAS 6 has started at 09 DEC 2019. All test cases should have been executed once until 28 FEB 2020.

Due to the number of failed and blocked test cases today we decided to postpone the deadline for retesting and bugfixing to 11 MAY 2020. Release of 6.0 stable is now scheduled for 15 MAY 2020.

3.2 Development Issues

Development issues and topics related to ILIAS versions 6

1. Accessibility : What do we want to achieve with ILIAS 6? What can we achieve with ILIAS 6? How do we want to go on afterwards. Topic was already discussed at the last JF. Alexandra wants to present results of the latest accessibility test and its implications for a roadmap.

   JourFixe, ILIAS [jourfixe]: Alexandra gave an overview about current activities on improving accessibility of ILIAS. There is a list of feature requests for ILIAS 7 that should help to improve accessibility. Testing of accessibility in Testrail has been completed and compressed bug reports have been made. According to Alexander, none of them are show-stopper for ILIAS 6 and can be fixed also after having published 6.0 stable. The investigation of Materna agency about the status of accessibility of ILIAS 6 has been completed and a report is available now. The result of the investigation is not as good as expected. There are still a lot of things to improve. Big issues are the broken heading scheme (no H2 headings in ILIAS page) and the current implementation of the main menu (screenreaders expect a HTML list). Alexandra invites all developers to join the monthly meetings or the SIG Accessibility where upcoming plans for accessibility improvements are discussed.

4 Developing ILIAS 7

4.1 Development Issues

Development issues and topics related to ILIAS versions 7

1. none

4.2 ILIAS 7 Test Installation

4.3 Suggested Features

1. Filter in »My Portfolios« : We highly appreciate this suggestion and schedule the feature for ILIAS 7. Please add an additional global setting to the Portfolio administration to enable / disable the use of filters in portfolios.

2. Embed Metadata in Portfolios : We see the need of the request but would prefer not to implement another form editor for the portfolio. Please consider to re-use either the survey or the data collection to create structured input that then can be displayed as content in a portfolio page.

3. Time-limited sharing of  Portfolios : We highly appreciate this suggestion and schedule it for ILIAS 7. As suggested by Alexander, the setting for Availability should be implemented similar to other objects (like course) and not placed in separate tab.

4. Compressed View for Question Blocks : We highly appreciate this suggestion and schedule it for ILIAS 7.

   Postponed to next Jour Fixe

5. Streamline exporting and copying behavior with respect to online/offline-status :

   • Feature request presented by Tödt, Alexandra [atoedt]
   • Length of slot: 15'
6. multilingualism for content pages :

   • Feature request presented by Hesse, Joel [Joel_Hesse]
   • Length of slot: 15'
7. Fallback Language in ILIAS Learning Modules :

   • Feature request presented by Hesse, Joel [Joel_Hesse]
   • Length of slot: 15'
8. User Agreement by Country :

   • Feature request presented by Hesse, Joel [Joel_Hesse]
   • Length of slot: 15'
9. Include Chat-Settings in Workflow for Personal Profiles :

   • Feature request presented by Jansen, Michael [mjansen]
   • Length of slot: 15'
10. Password Storage: Support Argon2 Hashes :

    • Feature request presented by Jansen, Michael [mjansen]
    • Length of slot: 15'
11. Integration of Preconditions in Settings Tab :

    • Feature request presented by Samoila, Oliver [oliver.samoila]
    • Length of slot: 30'

5 Miscellaneous

Performance PR

Mantis

Alexander would like to abandon "Priority" in Mantis reports to prevent the misunderstanding that it is related to "fixing acc. to priority".

JourFixe, ILIAS [jourfixe]: Matthias and Fabian Wolf will check if this field can easily be deactivated. We do not need it for our bugfixing process.

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