JourFixe-2022-01-10

Date and place

Monday, 10 January 2022 from 13:00 - 15:40 at VC meeting in BBB.

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1 Appointments

2 Miscellaneous

Tool for an Open ILIAS Workspace

The Technical Boards wants to introduce a tool for an Open ILIAS Workspace and wants to make an informed choice for such a tool. People who want to participate may apply to this group. We will publish a request for proposals for such a tool in the group. The request will clarify our requirements and a description for the process on how we want to make a decision.

UI Clinic

Our UI/UX/A11y experts Yvonne Seiler and Kristina Auerswald are offering bi-weekly UI clinic consultation hours for UI/UX and accessibility topics. The consultation hours are open for all users that need or are interested in related help for their ILIAS development activities. The UI Clinic consultation hours take place every Tuesday before Jour Fixe from 14h30 to 15h00. If you are interested in discussing an issue, please register here!

Maintainerships

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

1. Dashboard: Alexander Killing would like to hand over maintainershipt of Services/Dashboard to an interested developer. Code is in a good state and the service ready to be used with PHP8.

   • Ingmar Szmais and Lukas Scharmer (Databay AG) would like to take over 1^st maintainership for the Dashboard component.
   • Fabian Schmid applies for 2^nd maintainership.
   • No other developer has declared interest until today.
   • Unless TB is not having a veto, we assign the 1st maintainership for Dashboard to Ingmar Szmais and the 2nd to Fabian Schmid. Thanks to all (three) for taking over the responsibility for this component and for their engagement in the ILIAS development.
2. User Service: Stefan Meyer would like to hand over maintainership of the component Services/User to an interested developer in the nearer future.

   • Developers willing to take over this maintainership are highly appreciated. Please contact the ILIAS product manager (Kunkel, Matthias [mkunkel]) if you are interested in taking over the maintainership.
3. 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 in taking over the maintainership.
4. Administration: Alexander Killing and Stefan Meyer (2nd maintainer) would like to hand over maintainership of Services/Administration to an interested developer. Code is in good state and the service ready to be used with PHP 8.

   • Developers willing to take over this maintainership are highly appreciated. Please contact the ILIAS product manager (Kunkel, Matthias [mkunkel]) if you are interested in taking over the maintainership.
5. Cloud Object: Theo Truffer would like to hand over maintainership of Modules/Cloud to an interested developer.

   • Developers willing to take over this maintainership are highly appreciated. Please contact the ILIAS product manager (Kunkel, Matthias [mkunkel]) if you are interested in taking over the maintainership.

big projectS jour fixE

Due to the postponed coding complete date for ILIAS 8 the Technical Board and the Product Manager have decided to also push back the Jour Fixe on possible projects for ILIAS 9 to February 21^st 2022. The corresponding datacollection will be available towards the end of January 2022.

Project »ILIAS Refinement«

3 Maintained Versions

At the time being, we are maintaining ILIAS version 6 (until mid 2022) and version 7 (until mid 2023). Maintenance of ILIAS 5.4 has ended at 31 DEC 2021.

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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   JourFixe, ILIAS [jourfixe]: …

3.5 Open Pull Requests to Discuss

3.6 Continuous Integration

4 Developing ILIAS 8

4.1 Timeline for ILIAS 8

Due to necessary time for reviewing the entire ILIAS code that has been refactored for PHP8 support, it is necessary to add additional time for the reviews and thus change the timeline for ILIAS 8.

4.2 Software Requirements for ILIAS 8

4.3 Development Issues

Development issues and topics related to ILIAS versions 8

1. Killing, Alexander [alex] would like to notify the Jour Fixe about a necessary change of a cronjob due to Remove PDF Generation from Survey:

   • The cron job "Remind users to participate / Send results to tutors" will not send the results anymore (since they rely on the PDF generation). The cron job will be renamed to "Remind users to participate"

   JourFixe, ILIAS [jourfixe]: We accept the change request by Alexander to change the cronjob for sending a mail with a PDF to tutors (as suggested at 22 DEC 2022). The label for survey#:#svy_notification_tutor_results# and survey#:#svy_notification_tutor_results_info# needs to be changed accordingly.

4.4 PHP 8 Support for ILIAS 8

4.5 Suggested Features for 8

1. Learning Sequence: Replace TinyMCE with Page Editor : We highly appreciate this suggestion and accept the substitution of TinyMCE in the Learning Sequence by the ILIAS page editor for ILIAS 8. We suggest to check if multilinguality for the IPE content could not be implemented with this request as well. If so, please extend the feature request accordingly. It would be highly appreciated to have screenshots once the feature is implemented to get a quick visual impression of the new feature.

2. LTI Wiki : We highly appreciate this suggestion and accept the feature for ILIAS 8. Please improve the screen for the matching of LTI roles to ILIAS roles (above chap. 2) to make clear which are the labels from LTI and which are the roles of ILIAS (should be done for all supported components).

5 Developing ILIAS 9

5.1 Suggested Features for 9

1. Abandon Undocumented Plugin Slot in Survey : We highly appreciate this suggestion and accept to abandon the survey question plugin slot in ILIAS with ILIAS version 9.

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