Developer meeting April 2008

Developer meetings > April 2008 meeting

• Date: 11am GMT, Monday 28 April 2008 - see the Moodle Developer Meeting calendar entry for conversion into your time zone
• Location: Elluminate Moodle Developers Meeting Room - login using your name and password moodle

Everyone is welcome, though developers with CVS write access will be given preference if the room becomes full.

Please add items to the agenda!

Moodle 1.9

• Summary of changes made to 1.9 stable since release (Petr)
  • Gradebook - bugfixing and performance problems solved
  • Captcha in user registration
  • Backup/restore bugfixing, improvements and performance
  • Numerous PostgreSQL compatibility fixes
  • Many critical problems fixed in language packs
  • Frontpage participants list improved
  • Database module - bugfixing and improvements
  • Forum module - fixed unread treaking, performance improvements, group modes fixed
  • Resource module - fixed problems with pdfs in IE
  • and many other bugfixing and small improvements (bugs resolved in 1.9.1)
• The weekly build process and how developers and testers can help/contribute. (Martin)

Candidates for inclusion into 1.9.x

(add your own ideas here)

• Role related improvements (MDL-8524)
  • Permissions of user in context (MDL-13538)
  • Allow modules specify which caps they use (MDL-11421)
  • Capability definition should include list of contexts where usable (MDL-7859)
• Group self selection module (MDL-1310)
• User suspend, delete and purge improvements (MDL-13563)
• Email change confirmation (MDL-13811)
• Ajax in gradebook
• WebDAV in moddata
• Privacy laws related issues

Moodle 2.0

• Roadmap overview and status (Martin)

Other news

• New Moodle HQ employees (Martin)
• Google Summer of Code (Helen)
• The OU blog (Sam Marshall)
• Webservices Architecture and other interoperability developments. (Ludo - Marc Alier)
• The phpdoc service for Moodle and how to enhance code documentation - (Valery)

See also

• Roadmap