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Revision as of 05:53, 5 May 2010
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What the Preview is
The current version of Moodle 2.0 is getting to the point where we are feeling comfortable inviting experienced Moodle users to try it out and start banging on it and giving us more detailed feedback.
What the Preview is not
This is not finished code. This is not for production servers. Do not use it for production. DO NOT USE IT FOR PRODUCTION! :)
Software is complex stuff. A quick line count of the whole of 2.0 (including libraries but not counting 3rd party modules) comes to over a million lines of code.
We are on the home stretch for this thing now but it's going to be a VERY busy next few months for us at Moodle HQ and all the others helping with Moodle development in various capacities.
Where we are focussing on now
... and how you can help!
Usability
A lot of the new features have early-quality development interfaces that still need to be improved a lot for general use. This is mostly a mix of new core renderers and styling in themes.
Themes
Our plan is to get 20 themes in Moodle 2.0. This is accelerating now the Themes system has stabilised and Moodle is starting to look very nice indeed.
Performance and upgrade
We would really love those of you with big sites to help us with this. Try upgrading a copy of your production sites from Moodle 1.9 to Moodle 2.0, and give us data about:
- What environment was Moodle running in? (DB etc)
- How long did the upgrade take?
- Were there any serious errors? (and what did you do to fix them :) )
- Can you compare the performance of your 1.9 site to 2.0?
Please join in the discussion here: (link to come shortly)
Remaining features
There are also still a couple of biggish patches that will be ready in the coming weeks, such as:
- Restore for 2.0 and 1.9 backups (we can currently only create 2.0 backups)
- Enrolments rewrite - mostly done, just needs UI work
- Plagiarism API - ready to drop in after another review
- Anonymous users - needs review
However the July deadline is important, so some of these may not make it into 2.0 if time is too tight.
