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=Status=

General functionality is complete, though some config screens are _very_ raw (and yet others quite polished). Looking forward we have

* Polish configuration aspects
* Polish some usability aspects
* More meaningful errors for end users - and easier to debug
* Some internal changes
* Some bugfixing (not many so far - cross fingers!)
* Get some extra eyes on this and aim for a merge!
** MultiAuth is 99% ready - reviews and testers welcome
** RPC aspects are 90% ready - will be looking for review soon, testers welcome
** Hub Services (SSO and Enrolment) are 80% ready - undergoing minor rework and fixups

= Internals - Naming & conventions =

* Tables and functions following moodle conventions
** <font color="green">DM Done:</font> mnet_host.description - rename to mnet_host.name
** <font color="green">DM Done:</font> mnet.service.service_name rename to 'name'
** <font color="green">DM Done:</font> rename mdl_mnet_enrol_assignments.studentid to userid

* should some of our mnet/enrol stuff be in auth/sso?

* <font color="green">DM Done:</font> $MNET_CLIENT instead of $MNET  <font color="green">Note - we renamed to $MNET_REMOTE_CLIENT</font>

* <font color="green">ML Done:</font> Database: when we are done with schema changes, write upgrade.php

= Internals - correctness = 

* <font color="green">ML Done: </font>walk our delta to check for required_param() and optional_param() without PARAM_TYPE

   git-diff MOODLE_17_STABLE...master | pcregrep '\+.*(required_param|optional_param)'

* <font color="green">ML Done: </font>walk our delta to check for camelCase
* multi auth 
** <font color="green">JH Done:</font> initial install should enable email-based self-reg and manual accts
** <font color="green">JH Tested:</font> if they are disabled, it should _break_ and not allow users in
** update 1.7 -> 1.8 auth migration guide

* mnet rpc - 
** <font color="green">DM Done:</font> don't dispatch if module/plugin is disabled
** <font color="green">ML Done:</font> figure out handling of xml-rpc reported errors 
** <font color="green">DM Done:</font> why does the xmlrpc client have to call it 'enrol/mnet/enrol/foo'? the 2nd instance of enrol is superfluous
** <font color="green">DM Done (Testing required):</font> key rotation


* enrol/mnet
** <font color="green">ML Done: </font>available_courses() needs review
** enrol_user()/unenrol_user() 
*** get rid of ob_ hack
*** only unenrol if enrol ='mnet'
*** Error handling if xmlrpc reported error
*** Error handling if remote host does not have networking ok?
*** maybe implement a 'default role override' (low pri)

* block/courses_list needs to be reworked a bit for correctness
** the "my courses" in the main page should follow
** abstrace "get_my_remote_courses()" functionality

* auth/mnet
** <font color="green">JH Done: </font>prevent jump if username === 'guest' or if mnethost!= localhost

* Review capabilities and privileges - and relationship with whitelist / blacklist

* <font color="green">JH Testing:</font> MAJOR - user.username uniqueness - check with MartinD

* Backup & REstore - check with Eloy

= Architecture / Design =

* discuss mnet host services configuration and service data caching
** <font color="green">DM Done:</font> goal: simplify host to service mapping
** <font color="green">DM Done:</font> bug:  Once we've seen a remote service, we think we have it to offer too?
** <font color="green">DM Done:</font> goal for MartinD: a "Moodle Hub" host may just offer sso and enrol to any remote host?

= UI =

* simplify mnet host configuration
** partially done - how do we bring the ability to run promiscuous?
** <font color="green">DM Done:</font> use submit-redirect scheme re-enable the back-button 
** <font color="green">DM Done:</font> admin sidebar link should be Networking->Hosts
* <font color="green">DM Done:</font> admin/mnet - do NOT show IDs anywhere in the page
* <font color="green">DM Done:</font> admin/mnet - make sure we trim trailing slashes at form input time, and also at RPC incoming call
* enrol/mnet - 
** pull/cache enrolments from remote hosts
*** maybe as logs?
** display in my courses
** more advanced dance to enrol to remote hosts...
* Make enrol/mnet interfaces nicer
** remote_hosts.php
*** tidy up tables
*** add cached counts of courses available and enrolments
*** add links to logs view
** remote_courses.php 
*** should look & behave similar to courses/index.php -- steal CSS
** remote_enrolment.php
*** tidy up
** These 3 scripts above need a bit of a scrubbing and a whole lot of lang strings
*** To consider - these 3 scripts may need to be split off outside of enrol/mnet.
**** UI - wise, I think it will make sense to make them show up in the main admin block, so it shows up under Network -> Remote enrolments

     MartinD is likely to want it to be Network -> Hub enrolments or something like that.
     We may leave this until we talk with him -- it's not a big problem if we have to
     move the files around.

** <font color="green">JH Done:</font> Replace course / category selection in enrol/mnet/config.html with a separate page with 2 panes, similar to remote_enrolment.php
*** Storage of that info needs to be reworked
** consider splitting out log handling to a separate page for scalability (low pri)

= Further Functionality =

* Exchange more enrolment info during jump
** IdP needs to current roles in SP to display in My Courses and reports
** SP needs to know about enrolments in IdP (and perhaps even other SPs) to make My Courses more useful
** Related My Courses improvements
** Might need to tweak mnet_enrol_role_assignments table

* Mnet Dispatcher (low pri)
** Expose core moodle calls via lib/publiclib.php or similar?
** Allow mnet-specific drop-ins via mnet/plugins/ ?

* Content sharing
** <font color="red">ML: Defer</font> Come up with a simple + useful plan or defer

* Forum post mailings
** Tweak read / reply URLs - possible?
*** <font color="green">JH:</font> If we can get jump.php to use ?wwwroot=foo as well as ?hostid=n otherwise the cron() function in enrol/mnet will need to query remote host for the mnet_host_id...
*** Other mailouts with links?

= User feedback =

* RWyles
** Allow request remote host logo for theme displkay
** LOGINAS is broken on SP
** Think about gradebook service to export final grades

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