JourFixe-2021-12-13

Date and place

Monday, 13 December 2021 from 13:00 - 15:30 as 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. 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.
   • Seeland, Per Pascal [PerPascalSeeland] from University Stuttgart is willing to take over maintainership for this component.
   • No further applies have been made up-to-now.
2. Data Collection: Theo Truffer would like to hand over maintainership of the data collection component to an interested developer in the nearer future.

   • Seeland, Per Pascal [PerPascalSeeland] from University Stuttgart is willing to take over maintainership for this component.
   • No further applies have been made up-to-now.
3. Initialisation Service: Stefan Meyer would like to hand over maintainership of the component Services/Init to an interested developer in the nearer future.

   • Seeland, Per Pascal [PerPascalSeeland] from University Stuttgart is willing to take over maintainership for this component.
   • No further applies have been made up-to-now.
4. 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.
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 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.

   • 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.
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.

   • 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 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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   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. Famula, Thomas [tfamula] 10 DEC 2021: During the implementation of Transfer of competences into a reporting panel some issues occured:

   1. We would like to revert the JF decision "offer a link to the self-evaluation in the provided text of the competence".
   2. Chapter 3.1: The view "Achievements >> Competences >> Selected Skills" should not be affected by this feature because it makes no sense.
   3. We would like to extend the feature by hiding the competence levels in an accordion when looking at competence entries (see screenshots).

   

   

   JourFixe, ILIAS [jourfixe]: We accept suggestion 1 and 2. Concerning suggestion 3 we ask Thomas if he couldn't use the KS Presentation instead of the legacy accordion. If the legacy accordion needs to be included for ILIAS 8 we ask for a statement how this situation can be resolved for ILIAS 9 by improving or introducing UI components that solve the problem.

4.4 PHP 8 Support for ILIAS 8

4.5 Suggested Features for 8

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5 Developing ILIAS 9

5.1 Suggested Features for 9

1. Abandon Special Character Selector : We abandon the current implementation of the Special Character Selector with ILIAS 9. Amstutz, Timon [amstutz] will take responsibility for getting the code out of ILIAS. We ask all stakeholder that need such a feature to push a re-implementation of this feature and to participate at the conceptual work and the creation of a related feature request for ILIAS 9. Otherwise, no special char selector will be available in ILIAS 9.

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