JourFixe-2021-11-29

Date and place

Monday, 29 November 2021 from 13:00 - 14:30 as VC meeting in BBB.

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1 Appointments

2 Miscellaneous

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. They have started at 09 NOV 2021. Next meeting see above (1 Appointments).

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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.

   • Please contact the ILIAS product manager (Kunkel, Matthias [mkunkel]) if you are interested in taking over the maintainership.
3. 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.
4. 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.
5. Initialisation Service: Stefan Meyer would like to hand over maintainership of the component Services/Init 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. 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.

   • Please contact the ILIAS product manager (Kunkel, Matthias [mkunkel]) if you are interested in taking over the maintainership.
7. 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.

   • Please contact the ILIAS product manager (Kunkel, Matthias [mkunkel]) if you are interested in taking over the maintainership.
8. Modules/OrgUnit: actual 1^st maintainer announced during a call with the Technical Board and the Product Manager that he would like to hand over maintainership of the component Modules/OrgUnit to an interested developer in the near future. Deadline for an apply for maintainership was 21 NOV 2021.

   • The product manager received one apply for taking over 1^st maintainership of Modules/OrgUnit by Klees, Richard [rklees], CaT Concepts and Training GmbH, including a concept how to develop the feature in the future. 2^nd maintainership would be taken over by Schmid, Fabian [fschmid], sr.solutions. We highly appreciate this initiative and hand over maintainerships accordingly. This change shall enter into force already for ILIAS 8.

big project jour fix

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.

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

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

4.5 Suggested Features for 8

1. Abandon SCORM Offline Player : We highly appreciate this suggestion and accept to abandan the SCORM offline player with ILIAS 8 due to general problems with browser technologies and the feature. As there is no funding to investigate a better solution, we can only abandon the feature. Please remove all related test cases from Testrail, too.

2. LTI Consumer with support for LTI 1.3 : We highly appreciate this suggestion and accept the feature for ILIAS 8.

3. LTI Provider with support for LTI 1.3 : We highly appreciate this suggestion and accept the feature for ILIAS 8.

4. Abandon mimetex support : We highly appreciate this suggestion and accept to abandon mimetex support with ILIAS 8.

5 Developing ILIAS 9

5.1 Suggested Features for 9

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