Attendance (plugin)

Greetings, Derek!

I agree with you that the docs are out of date. 

I think the reason that the newest (Artem's version) is not in the plugins database is because he did not choose to put it there.  I don't think anyone else would be comfortable adding it, since that is more appropriately the developers choice.  I had some correspondence with him about it last year, but it appears that he prefers to keep up his github site instead of publishing in the modules database.  His github site is commented, and he has more projects on it than attendance. 

With respect to Dmitry's version, it still resides in the old plugins and modules database, but as far as I know, is no longer being kept up.  Of course as we move further and further from Moodle 1.8, the less likely it is that people will want to install that particular version.  In our case, we were using a REALLY old version, not wanting some of the extra features he put in later.

As far as I can see, the release notes for Moodle 2.3 do not include attendance, so it won't be in core any time soon.  Perhaps you might want to direct message Artem and ask?

Perhaps the best way to deal with the docs situation is to find out how to open up a new page that focuses on Moodle 2.x attendance.  In that case, I think the only module would be Artem Andreev's.  Would you be willing to get it started?  We are just now moving to Moodle 2.x, so I haven't had any experience with the new attendance module.  I can ask Helen or Chris Collman about it.

atw

Hi, Derek!

1. I haven't any information about Human logic version. Attendance v2.2, 2.3 and 2.4 is the development of Dmitry version. v2.2 added common and groups sessions and some ui improvements. v2.3 added ability to add multiple attendances in course + some ui additions. v2.4 is module rewriting for Moodle 2.x.

2. New plugins directory has some strictly requirements. I tried to register module in october 2011. I got error with table names. And I don't know how much errors current version of attendance module has. I think it should be a lot of time to meet all the requirements and careful testing in order to avoid regression. Unfortunately, I do not have time and desire to solve all these problems for adding attendance module to the plugins directory.

3. As far as I could understand from the description, this module addresses a slightly different task.

4. I propose to discuss this question in the appropriate forum topic.

About documentation: I haven't any plans to write new wiki articles due my not very good english.

I noticed that the document page for Moodle v2.3 was still referring to an old version, and started to update it. I only now noticed that others have already updated the document page for Moodle v2.2.

I suppose these changes should be merged, and then possibly copied to all the module's documentation pages for the various Moodle v2.x versions. Though this seems to be error-prone -- is there possibly a way to put a redirect from the later versions of the document page to, for instance, the Moodle v2.0 page, in case the module is supposed to work for all of the versions?

I also just started a new thread on issues concerning this latest version of the module, including the documentation.