Developer meeting April 2015

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Time	07:00 UTC on Tuesday, 21 April 2015 Add to my calendar
Meeting room	Live stream at YouTube
Forum discussion	GDF thread
Chat	Regular dev chat
Twitter	#moodledev
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Agenda

The meeting focuses on changes in the upcoming Moodle 2.9 release with special attention paid to impact of these changes on community contributors and plugin authors.

Work in progress - individual items to be confirmed, the exact order is subject of change.

First experiences with mustache, the new template framework

• by Urs Hunkler (confirmed)
• See the discussion for more details.

To see how to work with the Moodle Mustache implementation I refactored the »clean« theme to a Mustache theme. The process went quite well. I'll try to show the main thoughts and steps in the refactoring process in about 10 minutes. We may have some time to talk about Moodle Mustache afterwards.

You may have a look at the theme »cleanm« in my Git repo.

Urs Hunkler (talk) 23:32, 13 April 2015 (AWST)

Unified AJAX script handler

• MDL-49163

Timezones handling

• by Petr Škoda (confirmed)
• MDL-49684

Moodle 2.9.0 is switching to native PHP date and time code. The old homegrown DST switching routines were completely removed.

Per-request temp directories

• by Andrew Nicols
• MDL-44874

Behat tests runs in parallel

• by Rajesh Taneja
• MDL-39752

As we have over 33000 behat steps in moodle and it's growing rapidly. It takes around 12 hours to execute whole behat suite, which is not expectable for any testing environment. With initial work from Tony and Damyon, we came up with strategy of splitting feature files in different processes and run them in parallel. I will try cover options and demo for running behat in parallel.

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