Melbourne hackfest July 2015

Developer meetings > Melbourne hackfest July 2015

When	Thursday, July 9th, 2015 - 9.00am to 5.00pm
Where	Robert Menzies Building, rooms W204 and W210, Monash University, Melbourne - as a part of MoodleMoot AU 2015
Hashtag	#mootau15
Support	Moodle Hackfest Melbourne 2015 course at dev.moodle.org

Schedule

Time slot	Room A	Room B
09:00 - 10:30	Contributing to Moodle development Introduction to Moodle plugins development	Moodle developer's First aid station
11:00 - 12:30	Hacking group 1: Course Archiving and Roll-over	Hacking group 2: Assessment Analytics
13:30 - 15:00	Unit and behaviour testing in Moodle: Introduction to PHPUnit and Behat	Javascript modules in Moodle 2.9 and higher
15:30 - 17:00	"Show and talk" micro-sessions	-

Contributing to Moodle development

Introduction session led by Marina Glancy, Moodle HQ's development process manager, was there for those new into Moodle development. Useful information and/or clarification for existing contributors was provided, too. A short overview of Moodle development practises, documentation, APIs, processes and tools discussed and demonstrated.

Relevant docs links:

• Main dev docs page - overview of all development docs
• Moodle versions - how Git branches are organised
• Git for developers - general overview of the pull model of the moodle develoment
• Coding style
• Tracker tips
• Moodle Development kit