JourFixe-2022-11-28

Date and place

Monday, 28 November 2022 from 13:00 – 15:55 at VC meeting in BBB.

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1 Appointments

2 Miscellaneous

2.1 Changed Jour Fixe Date : 12 → 19 DEC 22

Due to an important invitation to the Federal Ministry of Education in Berlin, Matthias cannot chair the Jour Fixe on 12 December. Therefore, the Jour Fixe will be postponed by one week to 19 December.

2.2 Timeline for Jour Fixe Agenda

To give sufficient time to everyone for reading and discussing upcoming feature requests for the next Jour Fixe, we have agreed to build the agenda a week before the Jour Fixe. The product manager usually does this Tuesday morning before the JF.

To be able to set up an agenda, it is important that the responsible maintainer for a feature request has already clicked on "Checked and Attendance" before. This is the identication for a final check of the request by the PM and to set it on the agenda – or request for additional information of it. The product manager really appreciates if we all could keep this deadline. Of course, exceptions are possible – but they should remain exceptions. When a maintainer fails to meet a deadline, a short notice to the product manager would be helpful.

Change of procedure: Once the Jour Fixe agenda has been set up, the product manager deletes the feature suggestions from the Suggestions for Jour Fixe data collection. So far, this has only been done after the Jour Fixe when preparing the next agenda. By deleting the entries in the data collection when they are transferred to the Jour Fixe Agenda, the agenda creation process will be simplified. If you want to know which feature requests will be tackled in the next Jour Fixe, please only check the upcoming JF agenda.

2.3 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.

2.4 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!

2.5 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.

2.6 Maintainerships

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

1. 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.
2. 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.

3. 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. The Technical Board is already discussing with the interested developer about future plans for this component. More information will be available soon.

4. UI Kitchen Sink: A third developer will join the UI Kitchen Sink coordinator team : Fuhrer, Thibeau [tfuhrer] from sr.solutions will support Timon and Richard in the coordination of the UI KS component and bring in his JS knowledge. Thibeau will familiarise himself with the task over the next 6 months and will then be the contact person especially for JS questions in the UI component.

3 Maintained Versions

At the time being, we are maintaining ILIAS version 6 and version 7.

3.1 Roadmap

Lifecycles of maintained versions

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

Postponed to next JF when Michael joins us again.

4 Publishing ILIAS 8

4.1 Timeline for ILIAS 8

4.2 Software Requirements for ILIAS 8

4.3 Development Issues

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4.4 Status of Implementation

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

4.5 Testing ILIAS 8

Timetable

Status 28 NOV 2022

Current Performance

Test Runs with open cases

New Test Cases for ILIAS 9

5 Developing ILIAS 9

5.1 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.

5.2 Software Requirements for ILIAS 9

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

5.3 Development Issues

1. Streamline Competence Entries on Competence Records-Tab - Zenzen, Enrico [ezenzen] / Famula, Thomas [tfamula]: We checked with the SIG if assigning personal materials to competences can be abandoned. This is not the case. Therefore, we want to change the presentation like proposed in the article.

   JourFixe, ILIAS [jourfixe]: We highly appreciate the modification of the request based on the feedback of the SIG Portfolio & Kompentenzmanagement and accept it for ILIAS 9.

5.4 Suggested Features for 9

1. Revision of Collection Glossaries: We highly appreciate this suggestion and schedule the feature for ILIAS 9.

2. Customizable Maximum File Upload Size: We highly appreciate this suggestion and accept it for ILIAS 9. There are objections against allowing limits per users and limits per local role. This means, upload policies are only possible for "all users" and for a selected global role. And please add a short notice about the possibility of upload limits to the install.md, section "PHP Installation and Configuration".

3. Display learning materials of the Profil Target Level and all levels below : We highly appreciate the suggested feature and accept it for ILIAS 9. We do not want to add "Level" in front of the level titles. Users should use self-explaining level titles instead.

4. Page Editor » Interactive Image : We highly appreciate this suggestion and schedule the feature for ILIAS 9. Improvements of the accessibility of the presentation of an interactive image will be tackled in a different request.

5. Poll Improvements : We highly appreciate this suggestion and schedule the feature for ILIAS 9. Please rename the action "Edit Content" to "Edit Question" to be conformant to the new tab title.

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6 Developing ILIAS 10

6.1 Timeline for ILIAS 10

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