Developer meeting January 2015: Difference between revisions

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Developer meetings > January 2015 meeting notes

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

by David Mudrák
Overview of recent development and the ability to integrate external tools with the plugins directory (such as mdk, moosh or custom shell scripts)
Estimated length: 5 minutes

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: 10 minutes

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

You are welcome to participate at the meeting as a speaker, too. We appreciate any Moodle development experience sharing
If you have something you'd like to add to this page, please edit this page or contact David Mudrák.

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 * by Tim Hunt
-* Progress report on the project (that has been proposed during the last developer meeting) to allow the students to continue to input their responses to all questions in a multi-page quiz when they go offline (such as loosing the connectivity in the train), and later have the reposes sent back to the server.
+* 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 [https://github.com/timhunt/moodle-quizaccess_offlinemode Tim's github repo]
-* Estimated length: 15 minutes
+* 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
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