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==Moodle 1.6==
===Quiz===
*[[User:Gustav Delius|Gustav]] is handing over the [[Quiz module]] to the Open University on Tuesday 23rd May 2006
*Tim Hunt will be the main person working on quiz
*1.6 quiz is much cleaner, set up for growth, enabling questions in different modules, developing assessment type using questions
*Comment from [[User:Mike Churchward|Mike]]: Hopefully more modules will use questions in future e.g. [[Questionnaire module]]
===Themes===
*[[1.6 theme upgrade]] documentation
*Unfortunate that theme developments were reverted - better to have tested more before committing
*Currently problems with a "you are here" link and the jump link between blocks (see [http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=42834 skip-block feature new in 1.6] forum discussion), images in navigation not so nice and the alternate icon set is incomplete
*Lots of deprecated tags still in 1.6 - these should be cleaned up for 1.7, using a page in Moodle Docs rather than the bug tracker
===Moodle 1.6 code===
*Comment from [[User:Gustav Delius|Gustav]]: Lots of different styles of code - difficult for newcomers to know what to copy
*Reply from [[User:Martin Dougiamas|Martin]]: [[Database module]] should be a good example with classes, plugins etc.
===Release===
*1.6 should be released as soon as possible
*Petr currently working on security bugs
*The advice to backup everything before upgrading should be reinforced
*Big sites will take a long time to migrate the database to UTF-8
 
==Moodle 1.7==
===Database schema===
*Database support to be extended to SQL server and Oracle
*Single system, one file in xml format; things more automated and regular
*Explicit sql must be cleaned up, isolated in lib, pull out generalised sql and put in core file, may still need switch statements
*[[User:Eloy Lafuente (stronk7)|Eloy]] working out the issues - see [[XML database schema]]
*Comments from Tim Hunt: datalib is big, getting even bigger, should we split? Should make sure unit tests are run on each database.
 
===Roles and permissions===
*permissions = capabilities
*The Open University (OU) have extended Martin and Shane's initial ideas
*Site, course and activity level roles
*Moodle HQ will do the work (funded by OU)
*Currently polishing the general spec, publishing it soon - see [[Roles]]
*Comments from Matt Oquist: OU proposal not generic enough, need ownership and permissions on a fine grained level, seems illogical to have separate permissions system for repository and roles - see [http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=38788 Roles and Permissions architecture] forum discussion
*Comment from Gustav: We should consider how [http://bodington.org/index.php Boddington] (UK Open Source VLE) handles roles - see [http://bodington.org/bodacc.php flash movie demonstrating roles interface]
*post conference comment from MD, proposed by skodak: a flag to mark capabilities as "potentially insecure" would be a good idea
 
==Additional comments==
 
*[[Gradebook]] needs fixing (changing from 'pull' to 'push'), anyone interested please get in contact, would love it to be in 1.7
*Unfortunately dfwiki not in 1.6 - interface better but still needs work, hopefully it will be included in 1.7
*Please can everyone add hacks, plugins, modules etc. to the [http://moodle.org/mod/data/view.php?id=6009 Modules and plugins database] (just need to allow different people to edit database entries)
*SCORM 1.2 and AICC supported, but not yet SCORM 2004; new [[SCORM]] maintainer, [http://www.sadiel.es/default.asp Sadiel], a Moodle Partner (David Puente and team)
*Re. web services, see [http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=44079 Web Services in forthcoming Moodle] forum discussion
*Comment from [[User:Mike Churchward|Mike]]: Contracted to do web services (gradebook, enrolments etc.), standardised IMS enterprise, working demo, want work to be right for everyone - see [[Web Services API]]
*RE. Google Summer of Code, 60 applications! Next year we must be organised, more opened up, more mentors, with projects in all areas of Moodle; potential for 30 or 40 projects; the Summer of Code gets bigger and better every year - it should be part of the Moodle calendar; anyone wanting to mentor existing projects, please contact Martin - see [[Student projects]]
*Comment from Tim Hunt: If 1.7 is to be released in September, how do we stop people starting big changes in August? Mozilla is a good model for releases, how about a public list of key bugs to fix before release?
*Reply from [[User:Martin Dougiamas|Martin]]: Accessibility and Sourceforge cvs caused 1.6 delay, need everyone's help with releases, use bug tracker advanced search
*Comment from Tim Hunt: [http://oci.open.ac.uk/ OU Open Content Initiative] using Moodle to present stuff, October deadline then a series of releases
 
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