JourFixe-2022-08-22

Date and place

Monday, 22 August 2022 from 13:00 - 17:00 at VC meeting in BBB.

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1 Appointments

2 Miscellaneous

2.1 Tool for an Open ILIAS Workspace

Discord has been selected as tool for an Open ILIAS Workspace. The ILIAS channel of Discord is here: https://discord.gg/H9v2v2Ar2T. Feel free to join.

2.2 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!

2.3 Style Guide for English Language

Our expert for English language, Chris Potter, has created a Style Guide for English Language in ILIAS to help developers when writing English labels and bylines. Major aim is to improve the quality and the consistence of the English language file. We kindly please all developers to have a look at this style guide and follow its recommendations!

In addition, Chris is currently revising the entire ilias_en.lang for ILIAS 8 and corrects and streamline the texts. This already came with a couple of commits in the last weeks (and still will go on).

In case of questions to the style guide or the correct use of English language in ILIAS, please feel free to contact Chris.

2.4 Alternative Day for Jour Fixe

For many years now, the Jour Fixe for the development for ILIAS has been held every second Monday from 1 pm. However, there are always voices that the afternoon appointment is not convenient for some community members or difficult to reconcile with private commitments. Therefore, we have set up a survey to find out whether an alternative day and period in the week would be more suitable for a majority of those interested in the Jour Fixe. The anonymous survey was open for four weeks until 07 AUG 2022.

Result

Based on the voting we decide to keep the current date and not to move the Jour Fixe on another day and time in the week.

2.5 Call for Bids: Project Management ”Removing of Legacy-UIComponents-Service and Table“

The Technical Board has created a call for bids for the project management of the project ”Removing of Legacy-UIComponents-Service and Table“. A mail to all ILIAS service providers and to the developer list has already been sent. The call is attached as file. Deadline for bids is 29 August 2022.

2.6 Maintainerships

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

1. 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.
   • We have already received one expression of interest by a developer to take over the maintainership after the beta phase of ILIAS 8.

2. 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.
   • We have already received one expression of interest by a developer to take over the maintainership after the beta phase of ILIAS 8.
3. 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.

4. RBAC: Stefan Meyer would like to hand over the maintainership for /Services/AccessControl 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.
   • We have already received one expression of interest by a developer to take over the maintainership after the beta phase of ILIAS 8.
5. Tree: Stefan Meyer would like to hand over the maintainership for /Services/Tree 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.

6. SOAP & Web Services: Stefan Meyer would like to hand over the maintainership for /Services/WebServices 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.
   • In the meantime, an expression of interest for taking over this maintainership has been received. More information will be provided as soon as possible.

3 Maintained Versions

At the time being, we are maintaining ILIAS version 6 (until mid 2022) and version 7 (until mid 2023).

3.1 Roadmap

3.2 Mantis 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:

Postponed to next Jour Fixe:

3.3 Mantis Statistic

Mantis 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

Reports with status 'Fixing according to priorisation' should be fixed before other bugs are tackled. Priorised bugs are 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:

Postponed to next JF:

3.6 Continuous Integration

4 Publishing ILIAS 8

4.1 Timeline for ILIAS 8

4.2 Software Requirements for ILIAS 8

4.3 Development Issues

1. Kunkel, Matthias [mkunkel]: With ILIAS 8 a new administration node for "Dashboard" has been introduced. It is currently a top node in the administration menu - the only one. I suggest to move it into "Layout and Navigation" because the Dashboard is mainly a tool to navigate easily to my favourite objects, courses, suggested content a.s.o. I would place it straight after "Main Menu".

   JourFixe, ILIAS [jourfixe]: We highly appreciate this suggestion. Please change accordingly for ILIAS 8 and trunk.

4.4 Status of Implementation

In  the meantime, all affected developers have been contacted personally and asked for completion.

4.5 Testing ILIAS 8

Today, test week 4 (of 10) has started.

Timetable

Status 22 AUG 2022, 09:00

Current Performance

*   Current performance: number of executed test cases per week since last JF.
** Necessary workload: Number of test cases to be executed per week to reach deadline without delay.

@Maintainers

Testers wanted

5 Developing ILIAS 9

5.1 Timeline for ILIAS 9

5.2 Software Requirements for ILIAS 9

The required and supported software for ILIAS 9 is as follows:

5.3 Development Issues

1. Abandon Virtual Modes of Glossaries – Killing, Alexander [alex]: We have to make a final decision if we (a) abandon glossaries that are collecting terms from other glossaries in general or if we (b) keep a mode that _only_ collects terms but does not allow to create terms within the glossary. The option to collect _and_ create terms within one glossary will be abandoned in any case.

   JourFixe, ILIAS [jourfixe]: We prefer to keep a (new) mode of a glossary that is only collecting terms from other glossaries but does not allow to add own once and to abandon the option that such virtual glossaries can collect _and_ have own terms.

   • For existing glossaries of mode "virtual (this level only)" and "virtus (entire subtree)" the migration to ILIAS 9 will remove all glossary terms that have been made in these glossaries. Only the terms from "normal" glossaries of the same level will be kept.
   • The product manager will specify the future behaviour of the glossary in a dedicated feature request and present the result again on one of the next JF.

2. Abandon Multiple Definitions per Term in Glossary – Killing, Alexander [alex]: Definitions currently support LOM metadata. My assumption is, that this is rarely used. Since the definition entities will be "removed" and all data will be attached to the terms internally, we need to decide if the LOM metadata of definitions can be abandoned or needs to be migrated to terms.

   JourFixe, ILIAS [jourfixe]: We prefer to get rid of the metadata related to a second definition. Metadata should always be related to the term. In case, anyone needs metadata per defintion, please let the product manager know until 05 SEP 2022.

5.4 Suggested Features for 9

1. Import Booking Objects into Booking Tool: We highly appreciate this suggestion and schedule the feature for ILIAS 9. Please modify the suggested workflow as follows:

   1. Inserting spreadsheet data _and_ choosing schedule should take place on screen 1 (step 1 of process).
   2. Rendered spreadsheet data should be presented on confirmation modal with option to Create booking objects (or Cancel action).

2. Move Full Definitions Presentation to UI Framework: We highly appreciate this suggestion and schedule the feature for ILIAS 9.

3. Bulk Creation of Term/Definition Pairs: We highly appreciate this suggestion and schedule the feature for ILIAS 9. Similar to Import Booking Objects into Booking Tool we prefer to have the confirmation screen in step 3 as a confirmation modal with buttons to Create the glossary terms and definitions of to Cancel the action. Escaping of semicolon and tab will not be supported.

4. Download only selected submissions: We highly appreciate this suggestion and schedule the feature for ILIAS 9.

5. Show Peer Feedback after Feedback Deadline: We highly appreciate this suggestion and schedule the feature for ILIAS 9.

6. Moving LOM Metadata Editor to Kitchensink: We highly appreciate this suggestion and schedule the feature for ILIAS 9. Thanks for adapting the suggestions from the last JF and for creating a PR for the necessary UI element. We accept the use of toolbar and form on the same page (and suggest the UI coordinators to think about modifying the current guideline accordingly).

7. Change Shared status after submitting a portfolio: We highly appreciate this suggestion and schedule the feature for ILIAS 9. 

8. Add link to submitted portfolio in notification mail: We highly appreciate this suggestion and schedule the feature for ILIAS 9, incl. the requested changes from the JF decision at 22 FEB 2021.

9. Page Editor » Insert Item Group - formerly Insert Resource List: We highly appreciate this suggestion and schedule the feature for ILIAS 9.

10. Page Editor » Section Editing » Part II: We highly appreciate this suggestion and schedule the feature for ILIAS 9.

11. Page Editor » Data Table Editing » Part II: We highly appreciate this suggestion and schedule the feature for ILIAS 9. Please add a byline under the input for "Paste Content from a Spreadsheet" to clarify what is possible here and how it works. Once the implementation is ready we can check if other bylines are necessary to understand the possible functions of the data table editing.

12. Database: Management Functions for Referential Integrity in ilDBInterface: We highly appreciate this suggestion and schedule the feature for ILIAS 9. Please provide guidelines and information for developers to spread knowledge about this improvement of ILIAS. Detailed information about "Implementation" in the related chapter of this page would be nice, too.

13. Improvement of deleting competences: We highly appreciate this suggestion and schedule the feature for ILIAS 9. Please consider to present the delete confirmation as a modal - even if table could be very long due to a lot of related objects.

    Postponed to next Jour Fixe

14. Abandon RTL-Support

    • Feature request presented by Amstutz, Timon [amstutz]
    • Requested length of time 15'

6 Developing ILIAS 10

6.1 Timeline for ILIAS 10

6.2 Suggested Features for 10

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