Hi Moodle developers,
As mentioned in our Moodle development process, it's good to get community input on your proposed major new feature spec. You'll be pleased to hear that a new forum has been created especially for this, called Future major features.
I'll be moving a few discussion threads from this forum into the Future major features forum soon. If you come across a thread I have missed, please let me know.
Hi Visvanath,
Thanks for mentioning about how to request new features. The process has not changed. I've added a note to the forum description clarifying this point.
Ideally each discussion in the Future major features forum will be based on a detailed spec in the developer docs and will be started by the spec creator. In our online developer meeting last month, invited speaker Andrew Nicols described how he had attempted to get feedback on his developments but wished he had received more. It was agreed that we should try having a major features forum in Using Moodle as a way of supporting developers in obtaining feedback from users and other developers.
Although I'm sure everyone would like to know if/when their feature request will end up a major future feature, unfortunately this question is impossible to answer. As mentioned in the roadmap, major projects "are subject to change according to how long things take to develop" also "larger items in the roadmap are part of a long-term development vision for Moodle, which is heavily influenced by requests from our user community".
Finally, as you rightly point out, there are too many forums in Using Moodle. Some forums will be closed soon; information about this will be posted in the moodle.org design forum.
Progress Helen. Thanks.
Is this to be only threads started by MoodleHQ developers on "Official" projects?
Or is it any "projects of substance" started by whoever with specs in dev docs? ie in the plugin area maybe. (I dislike hacks)
Cheers,
-Derek
Is this to be only threads started by MoodleHQ developers on "Official" projects?
[IMO] Certainly not! Moodle HQ are not the only people contributing major functionality to Moodle core. Helen mentioned one of the catalysts for this forum was feedback from Andrew/Ruslan at LUNS not being able to get community feedback for the major features they contributed to Moodle 2.3.
Or is it any "projects of substance" started by whoever with specs in dev docs? ie in the plugin area maybe. (I dislike hacks)
Personally, I would like to see this forum limited to those projects which are intended to get into at Moodle core. In order to have focus and allow each topic to have the attention it deserves.
What are 'official' projects anyway?
Dan
Let's call those successful contributions "official".
Well then, I see this forum as a breeding ground for more 'official projects', then.
With good feedback from the community, there is more chance of projects being well thought out successful for integration to core.
To reiterate what Dan wrote: developers in the wider Moodle community are welcome to make use of the future major features forum as well as HQ developers.
I really hope that the new forum will encourage good practice amongst developers - first write a spec in the docs and then post in the future major features forum asking for community feedback.
I like Derek's definition 'any "projects of substance" started by whoever with specs in dev docs'.
Yeah, I'm a little confused on this. It seems you're suggesting that big feature request threads should be moved/open there, right?
IF so I'd say the "Dear Moodle ..." quickforms and YUI/jQuery (ducks) threads should be moved there.
Or are we only talking about requests that are going to happen?
Hi Danny,
Hopefully my reply to Visvanath explains a bit more about the intended purpose of the new forum. If you're still confused, please say so.
The two discussions you mention seem to me to belong better here in the general developer forum, as I can't find any specs in the developer docs about them.
