JourFixe-2021-08-09

Date and place

Monday, 09 August 2021 from 13:00 - 14:20 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. Badges: Michael Jansen, Databay AG, will take over the 1^st maintainership of the badges component from Alexander Killing with ILIAS 9 in 2022.

2. 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.
3. 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.
4. 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.

   • Please contact the ILIAS product manager (Kunkel, Matthias [mkunkel]) if you are interested in taking over the maintainership.
5. 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.
6. UICore service and  Object Service: Alexander Killing has removed his implicit maintainerships for  Services/UICore and Services/Object.

   • Developers willing to take over one of these maintainerships are highly appreciated. Please contact the TB if you are interested.

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:

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

3.6 Continuous Integration

4 Developing ILIAS 8

4.1 Timeline for ILIAS 8

Board, Technical Board and ILIAS Product Manager agree that ILIAS 8 has to support PHP 8. Otherwise it cannot be ensured that ILIAS 8 can be operated with a maintained PHP version over its entire lifecycle. End of security support for PHP 7.4 is scheduled for 28 NOV 2022, see here! However, experience shows that only very few installations will have updated to ILIAS 8 at this point. This makes the support of PHP 8 inevitable.

Unfortunately, not all developers will be finished with refactorings for PHP 8 support by the current Coding Completed deadline of October 28. Also, the crowdfunding for funding the PHP8 refactorings has not been completed yet, so further funders need to be found.

In order to get more time for the PHP8 refactorings and to complete the project successfully, the ILIAS Product Manager, in consultation with the Technical Board, decided to push back the Coding Completed date by three months. All subsequent dates will change accordingly. The new timeline for ILIAS 8 is now as follows:

4.2 Software Requirements for ILIAS 8

4.3 Development Issues

Development issues and topics related to ILIAS versions 8

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4.4 PHP 8 Support for ILIAS 8

Allowing to run ILIAS 8 with the latest PHP version 8 is the big project for developing ILIAS 8 as it requires a major overhaul of the entire ILIAS source code.

Current Status

Components for which refactoring has been completed:

 
For current funding status please have a look at the crowdfunding page: https://docu.ilias.de/goto_docu_wiki_wpage_7064_10274.html

Additional commitments by: Universität Bern
Some further contributions from the community are planned and are being clarified internally.

Next Steps

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