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| [[Developer conferences]] > May 2006 conference notes
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| ==Moodle 1.6==
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| ===Quiz===
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| *[[User:Gustav Delius|Gustav]] is handing over the [[Quiz module]] to the Open University on Tuesday 23rd May 2006
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| *Tim Hunt will be the main person working on quiz
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| *1.6 quiz is much cleaner, set up for growth, enabling questions in different modules, developing assessment type using questions
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| *Comment from [[User:Mike Churchward|Mike]]: Hopefully more modules will use questions in future e.g. [[Questionnaire module]]
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| ===Themes===
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| *[[1.6 theme upgrade]] documentation
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| *Unfortunate that theme developments were reverted - better to have tested more before committing
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| *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
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| *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
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| ===Moodle 1.6 code===
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| *Comment from [[User:Gustav Delius|Gustav]]: Lots of different styles of code - difficult for newcomers to know what to copy
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| *Reply from [[User:Martin Dougiamas|Martin]]: [[Database module]] should be a good example with classes, plugins etc.
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| ===Release===
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| *1.6 should be released as soon as possible
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| *Petr currently working on security bugs
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| *The advice to backup everything before upgrading should be reinforced
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| *Big sites will take a long time to migrate the database to UTF-8
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| ==Moodle 1.7==
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| ===Database schema===
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| *Database support to be extended to SQL server and Oracle
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| *Single system, one file in xml format; things more automated and regular
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| *Explicit sql must be cleaned up, isolated in lib, pull out generalised sql and put in core file, may still need switch statements
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| *[[User:Eloy Lafuente (stronk7)|Eloy]] working out the issues - see [[XML database schema]]
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| *Comments from Tim Hunt: datalib is big, getting even bigger, should we split? Should make sure unit tests are run on each database.
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| ===Roles and permissions===
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| *permissions = capabilities
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| *The Open University (OU) have extended Martin and Shane's initial ideas
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| *Site, course and activity level roles
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| *Moodle HQ will do the work (funded by OU)
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| *Currently polishing the general spec, publishing it soon - see [[Roles]]
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| *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
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| *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]
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| *post conference comment from MD, proposed by skodak: a flag to mark capabilities as "potentially insecure" would be a good idea
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| ==Additional comments==
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| *[[Gradebook]] needs fixing (changing from 'pull' to 'push'), anyone interested please get in contact, would love it to be in 1.7
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| *Unfortunately dfwiki not in 1.6 - interface better but still needs work, hopefully it will be included in 1.7
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| *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)
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| *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)
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| *Re. web services, see [http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=44079 Web Services in forthcoming Moodle] forum discussion
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| *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]]
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| *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]]
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| *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?
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| *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
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| *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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