Developer meeting January 2015

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Developer meetings > January 2015 meeting notes

Time	13:00 UTC on Tuesday, 20 January 2015
Meeting room	Live stream at YouTube
Chat	Regular dev chat
Twitter	#moodledev
Event page	Google+ page
Meeting notes	Google doc

The meeting will be streamed live on YouTube with chat through the regular Dev chat room and comments on Twitter.

You are encouraged to participate on composing the meeting notes in the shared document (see the link above) while listening to the presenters.

Agenda

Moodle JS framework prototypes research (Invited speaker)

• by Damyon Wiese
• I will cover a lot here including, Javascript loaders, Javascript Build Tools, Javascript Combo Loading, Javascript Accessible Widget Libraries, Templates for Renderers
• Please see JS Framework Specification and Render library specification
• Estimated length: 50 minutes

Prechecking against Moodle coding guidelines from your command line

• by Frédéric Massart
• The patch precheck job in Moodle continuous integration process - see Automated code review
• Short demonstration of the possibility to execute the CI precheck job from the command line (without the need to use the 'cime' label in the tracker), especially when using mdk
• Estimated length: 5-10 minutes

Quizventure game development

• by John Okely
• Short demonstration of the Quizventure game module highlighting interesting things you can do with our existing APIs
• Estimated length: 5-10 minutes

Prototype for a new 'Send a message' feature

• by Frédéric Massart
• Rather than redirecting you somewhere to send a message inside Moodle, this new feature would open a dialog, etc...
• Estimated length: 5-10 minutes

Development of the quiz fault-tolerant mode

• by Tim Hunt
• This allows the students to continue working on their quiz attempt, even if the network is unreliable, by storing everything on the client-side, and using Ajax when possible. I will try to show some more of the details.
• If the network connection never comes back, you can download the responses as an ecrypted file, which can later be uploaded ot the server.
• Work in progress code is at Tim's github repo
• Do we want this in standard Moodle? If so, when, and how do we add it? (It was developed as a plugin while it was an experiment. If it went into standard Moodle it would need to be merged into the main quiz code.)
• Estimated length: 20 minutes

Database foreign keys enforcement

• by Avi Levi, Asaf Ohayon
• Fixes done on 2.9 Dev branch
• Tracker : https://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-30799
• Discussion : https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=275290
• GitHub : https://github.com/AdminTheWeb/moodle/commits/MDL-30799-master
• Estimated length: 10-15 minutes

Developer hackfests at upcoming Moodle moots

• by Michael de Raadt
• MoodleMoot IE-UK, May 11-13, Hackfest May 14 program
• MoodleMoot Australia, July 6-8, Hackfest July 9 program
• MoodleMoot US, Aug 4-5, Hackfest August 6 site

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