JourFixe-2023-10-02

Date and place

Monday, 02 October 2023 from 13:00 – 16:00 at VC meeting in BBB.

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1 Appointments

2 Miscellaneous

2.1 Developing for PHP 8.2

The Technical Board kindly asks all developers to update their development environments to PHP 8.2.

2.2 Projectmanagement Quality Review

The Technical Board is looking for a person that would like to take over the project management to improve the quality of our software for the next 6 month – as volunteer or with time from their organisation.

More information is available in the job offer in our forum Jobs and Community.

2.3 UI Clinic

Our UI/UX/A11y experts Yvonne Seiler, Kristina Auerswald and Kendra Grotz 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!

2.4 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 9 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.

2.5 Maintainerships

2.5.1 Maintainerships to be Handed Over

The following maintainerships are offered for takeover by another developer:

Developers willing to take over a maintainership are highly appreciated. Please contact the Technical Board if you are interested in taking over the maintainership.

2.5.2 New or Changed Maintainerships

3 Maintained Versions

At the time being, we are maintaining ILIAS version 7 and Version 8.

3.1 Roadmap

Lifecycles of maintained versions

3.2 Mantis Reports

The following Mantis reports have been tagged with 'Needs Jour Fixe Decision' and were therfore be discussed in detail:

Postponed to next Jour Fixe:

3.3 Mantis Statistic

3.3.1 General Statistic

Current information from Mantis:

                        * … Issues with status 'open' and 'fix.acc.prio.' are recorded.

3.3.2 Statistic per Developer

Due to reported inconsistencies of the presented data from Mantis, the presentation of the statistic per developer is postponed to a later JF. First, we have to assure the correctness of the data generated by our script.

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.

3.5 Open Pull Requests to Discuss

The following pull requests in the ILIAS repository on GitHub were marked with 'Jour Fixe':

Postponed to next JF:

3.6 Continuous Integration

Michael cannot attend the Jour Fixe today. Topic postponed to next JF.

4 Developing ILIAS 9

4.1 Timeline for ILIAS 9

Due to the changed timeline of ILIAS 8 we had to fundamentally change the schedule for ILIAS 9. The aim was to secure sufficient resources for the completion of ILIAS 8 and to take away the time pressure for the programming of ILIAS 9. In short, the release plan for ILIAS 9 has been postponed by one year.

4.2 Software Requirements for ILIAS 9

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

4.3 Deprecated for ILIAS 9

The following services, methods and UI elements are deprecated for ILIAS 9:

4.4 Important Changes

/images directory : the subdirectory structure of /templates/default/images has been changed and more subdirectories have been introduced to to provide a faster and better overview of the existing image files. In addition, it will fix Mantis issue #35768.

In case of lost images (broken pathes), please create a Mantis report and assign it to CSS component.

4.5 Development Issues

4.6 Project 'Removing of Legacy-UIComponents-Service and Table'

4.7 Status of Development

This is the current status of the development of ILIAS ILIAS 9 – based on the metadata of all scheduled feature requests.

We ask all developers and service providers to update the metadata of their features regularly to allow a serious view on the current development status of this release.

4.8 Suggested Features for 9

1. Study Programme: Page Editor Element for Required Actions: We highly appreciate this suggestion and accept the feature for ILIAS 9. According to Yvonne's suggestion we would like to have a headline in the slate (see the second screen) if this is possible/supported by the IPE. This would help users to understand for what Save and Cancel are offered there.

2. Study Programme: New Action ’Update Certificate’ for Members Tab: We highly appreciate this suggestion and schedule the feature for ILIAS 9.

3. Study Programme: New Action ’Remove Certificate’ for Members Tab: We highly appreciate this suggestion and schedule the feature for ILIAS 9. To clarify the behviour: when removing a certificate, there will no longer be a valid certificate available. But no former certificates are deleted or set valid again. The user will just have no valid certificate any more.

4. Study Programme: Automatically Add Users from Organizational Unit Subtree: We highly appreciate this suggestion and schedule the feature for ILIAS 9.

5. Study Programme: Manually Add Users from Organizational Unit Subtree: We highly appreciate this suggestion and schedule the feature for ILIAS 9.

6. Study Programme: Show UDF in Member List: We highly appreciate this suggestion and schedule the feature for ILIAS 9. Richard will provide a PR for Stephan (as maintainer of the user service) to get a final approval of the implementation.

7. Export Assignment Data to Excel: We highly appreciate this suggestion and schedule the feature for ILIAS 9.

8. Use PresentationTable for Cross-Assignment Data in Study Programmes: We highly appreciate this suggestion and schedule the feature for ILIAS 9.

9. Configuration of assignment automation: Repeated enrolment only if relevant assignment criteria still exist: We highly appreciate this suggestion and schedule the feature for ILIAS 9.

10. Filter by Deadline: We highly appreciate this suggestion and schedule the feature for ILIAS 9.

    Postponed to Next Jour Fixe

11. LTI xAPI/cmi5

    • Suggested feature presented by Kohnle, Uwe [ukohnle]
    • Requested timeslot: 15'

12. Complete ILIAS Installation as LTI Tool

    • Suggested feature presented by Kohnle, Uwe [ukohnle]
    • Requested timeslot: 30'

13. Support Assignment and Grade Services for ILIAS as LTI 1.3 Tool

    • Suggested feature presented by Kohnle, Uwe [ukohnle]
    • Requested timeslot: 15'

4.9 Preparing Testing of ILIAS 9

4.9.1 Roadmap

4.9.2 Test Objects for Plugin Interfaces

There are several plugin interfaces in the ILIAS core that are tested during the beta testing, too. For some of them test objects are provided to test the interface properly.

We kindly ask all maintainers of components with related test objects to provide an updated and running test object until 15 November 2023 at the latest. In case that test objects can no longer be offered and the related interface be maintained, please create an abandon article and present it at the next Jour Fixe.

5 Developing ILIAS 10

5.1 Timeline for ILIAS 10

5.2 Deprecated for ILIAS 10

The following services, methods and UI elements are deprecated for ILIAS 10:

5.3 Important Changes

1. none

5.4 Suggested Features for 10

1. Additional fields for OpenID Connect (OIDC) SSO: We highly appreciate this suggestion and schedule the feature for ILIAS 10. Please contact the UI Clinic to discuss a better solution for the current suggestion of dropdown and button for selecting the pre-fill templates on screenshot 1.