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JourFixe-2021-09-20

Date and place

Monday, 20 September 2021 from 13:00 - … as VC meeting in BBB.

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1 Appointments

Workshops

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Development Conference

UPCOMING Jour FixeS

  • Monday, October 04, 13:00 - 18:00
  • Monday, October 18, 13:00 - 18:00
  • Monday, November 15, 13:00 - 18:00
  • Monday, November 29, 13:00 - 18:00
  • Monday, December 13, 13:00 - 18:00

2 Miscellaneous

Maintainerships

The following maintainerships will change or are offered for takeover by another developer:

  1. 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.
  2. Data Collection: Theo Truffer would like to hand over maintainership of the data collection component to an interested developer in the nearer future.
  3. 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.
  4. User Service: Stefan Meyer would like to hand over maintainership of the component Services/User to an interested developer in the nearer future.
  5. Object Service: Alexander Killing has removed his implicit maintainership for  Services/Object.
    • Developers willing to take over this maintainership are highly appreciated. Please contact the ILIAS product manager (Kunkel, Matthias [mkunkel]) 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

LAST RELEASES

  • ILIAS 7.2 published at 25 JUN 2021
  • ILIAS 6.11 published at 10 SEP 2021
  • ILIAS 5.4.23 published at 27 AUG 2021

NEXT RELEASES

  • ILIAS 7.3 scheduled for 24 SEP 2021
  • ILIAS 6.12 scheduled for October 2021
  • ILIAS 5.4.24 scheduled for October 2021

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:

  1. #31026: unintentionally usage of second mail-address when forwarding new mails: We would like to change the mail settings when the second e-mail address is no longer visible for users because the user has no longer a chance to see and edit his 2nd mail address. To keep transparency, a related confirmation message should be displayed. Michael will work out how such a confirmation screen could be implemented properly.
  2. #
Postponed due to absence of reporter / maintainer:

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:

Open Bugs Without Feedback

Last JF

ø Age in Days

Last JF

New Votes*

Old Votes**

Resolved or Closed***

Amstutz, Timon [amstutz]

1x1v

1x1v

Becker, Maximilian [mbecker]

157

139

227

225

1x7v  6x2v 21x1v

1x5v 

Braun, Jean-Luc [braun]

8

8

806

778

1x2v 1x1v

Famula, Thomas [tfamula]

5

0

199

0

1x1v

Fuhrer, Thibeau [tfuhrer]

1

1

136

108

Großkopf, Katrin [katrin.grosskopf]

1

25

Haagen, Nils [nlz]

1

1

59

31

Hecken, Stefan [shecken]

Jansen, Michael [mjansen]

Killing, Alexander [alex]

65

43

50

40

1x1v

2x3v 2x2v 22x1v

1x5v  2x4v 7x3v 6x2v

Klees, Richard [rklees]

1x4v 2x1v

1x1v

Kohnle, Uwe [ukohnle]

3

3

105

77

7x1v

Kunkel, Matthias [mkunkel]

Ahmad, Nadia [nadia]

1

1

112

84

Meyer, Stefan [smeyer]

134

123

233

226

4x2v 39x1v

3x1v

Neumann, Fred [fneumann]

1x1v

Samoila, Oliver [oliver.samoila]

Schenk, Ralf [rschenk]

Schmid, Fabian [fschmid]

27

24

148

144

1x4v 1x3v 2x2v 13x1v

1x1v

Schneider, Stefan [sschneider]

Seeland, Per Pascal [PerPascalSeeland]

5

5

581

553

Seiler, Yvonne [yvseiler]

1x1v

Strassner, Denis [dstrassner]

1x1v

30

28

183

169

2x1v

Tödt, Alexandra [atoedt]

1

1

133

105

23

22

188

176

4x1v

Vollbach, Guido [gvollbach]

2

2

197

169

1x2v

Weise, Daniel [daniwe4]

1

1

192

164

Kergomard, Stephan [skergomard]

1x1v

Wolf, Fabian [fwolf]

Zehnder, Lukas

Zenzen, Enrico [ezenzen]

* 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.

  1. JourFixe, ILIAS [jourfixe]: …

3.5 Open Pull Requests to Discuss

The following pull requests in the ILIAS GitHub repository were marked with 'Jour Fixe' this morning:
  1. PR •
Postponed to next JF:

3.6 Continuous Integration

  • We currently have 6716 automated test for the trunk, which is +856 compared to 2021-08-23. Absolutely uber awesome!

4 Developing ILIAS 8

4.1 Timeline for ILIAS 8

  • Coding completed: all features implemented and test cases finished until January 27, 2022
  • Release 8.0 beta1 and release-8 branch planned for January 28, 2022
  • Beginn of testing phase scheduled for January 31, 2022
  • End of testing phase planned for April 30, 2022
  • First stable 8.0 release planned for May 27, 2022
  • Planned maintenance for version 8: until Fall 2024

4.2 Software Requirements for ILIAS 8

Required and supported software for ILIAS 8 is as follows:
  • ILIAS 8 will support PHP 7.4 and 8.0.
  • Support for PHP 7.3 will be dropped!
  • PostgreSQL support is suggested to be abandoned.
  • OpenJDK 11 shall be supported for ilServer.

4.3 Development Issues

Development issues and topics related to ILIAS versions 8

  1. Removal of SQL-Mode (STRICT_TRANS_TABLES), Schmid, Fabian [fschmid]: ILIAS has always been operated with the SQL mode that content that was too long was silently cut off. Currently, the trunk is switched so that such operations lead to an error message. We would like to keep it that way because hidden errors become obvious. During the PHP8 meeting, the topic was already pre-discussed with the developers present and there is general agreement.

    JourFixe, ILIAS [jourfixe]: We support the decision to get rid of the mentioned mode with ILIAS 8.

    Schmid, Fabian [fschmid]: An addition after the JF: I simply wrote this wrong in the description of the topic, we have now activated the STRICT_MODE by default! This means that the SQL mode is supplemented by STRICT_TRANS_TABLES and STRICT_ALL_TABLES, regardless of what you have defined at MySQL level. Sorry for the misleading wording.

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

182 components in ILIAS have to be refactored. (last JF: 182) (last JF-information 2021-08-09)
  • For 170 components an estimation of costs is already available. (last JF: 170)
  • For 12 components an estimation of costs is still pending (last JF: 12)
 

Not started yet:

124

Not started on last JF:

137

 

Components in progress:

31

Components in progress on last JF:

30

 

Components completed:

27

Components completed on last JF:

15

Components for which refactoring has been completed:
(New components are formated as "emphatic".)

  • ActiveRecord
  • Certificate
  • Chat
  • ContentPage
  • Cron Service
  • Database
  • Exercise
  • Learning Sequence
  • Rating
  • SAML
  • services_Environment
  • services_Html
  • services_jQuery
  • services_JSON
  • services_OnScreenChat
  • services_Password
  • services_Randomization
  • services_TermsOfService
  • Setup
  • src_Data
  • src_KioskMode
  • src_Refinery
  • src_Setup
  • Tagging
  • Tasks
  • Taxonomy
  • Weblink

 
For current funding status please have a look at the crowdfunding pagehttps://docu.ilias.de/goto_docu_wiki_wpage_7064_10274.html
Some contributions from the community are planned and are being clarified internally.

Next Steps

  • Code refactoring at all service providers
  • Definition of the scope of the review
  • Fundraising
 
In the case that dependencies to other components occur that do not allow a maintainer to take any next steps, a corresponding issue in Mantis is requested. The issue should be marked with a [php8] tag. In case of urgency, please also send a mail to Samoila, Oliver [oliver.samoila]
 
For ongoing meetings, see: Working Group PHP 8

4.5 Suggested Features for 8

  1. Abandon SCORM Online Editor : We follow the suggestion of the current maintainer to abandon the SCORM online editor with ILIAS 8. If any other developer is interested to take over the maintainership, please contact Killing, Alexander [alex] within the next 2 weeks. Otherwise, the code will be removed from trunk.

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5 Developing ILIAS 9

5.1 Suggested Features for 9

  1. metadata for content pages : We highly appreciate this suggestion and accept the feature for ILIAS 9. It would be great to have a privacy.md for the content page as well as for the metadata service.

  2. Migrate News on Communication » News to Timeline : We highly appreciate this suggestion and schedule the feature for ILIAS 9. We continue the discussion about the KS Personal Item in the KS group.


[1] Bug reports counted only for core project, not for plugins

Utoljára szerkesztette: 21. Szept. 2021, 16:23, Schmid, Fabian [fschmid]