Early bird 3.9

Early bird 3.9

by David Mudrák -
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May the Moodle version 3.9 live long and prosper!

And you can help, too! With the Moodle 3.9-beta (2020060700) tagged in the git repository, it is time for the traditional Early bird challenge for the Moodle plugins developers. Yay!

Plugins will be awarded with the Early bird 3.9 badge if they have a tested working 3.9 compatible version available in three weeks on Monday 29 June 2020 at 23:59:59 UTC.

Same as before, it is not enough to simply mark you current versions as 3.9 compatible. Plugin maintainers are expected to:

  • Test plugins intensively against Moodle 3.9 (Behat and PHPUnit tests help a lot).
  • Fix all eventually raised warnings, notices, regressions and problems.
  • Release a new compatible version in the Plugins directory, or mark the existing one as compatible.

We reserve the right to not grant or revoke the award from a plugin if there is a suspicion that it was not tested well. There will be no exceptions for late submissions.

For the growing list of plugins that support the 3.9 version, please see https://moodle.org/plugins/?q=moodle-version:3.9

Thank you in advance for keeping your plugins up-to-date with latest Moodle versions!

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Re: Early bird 3.9

by David Mudrák -
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I am happy to announce that total of 272 plugins were granted with the Early bird 3.9 award!

See https://moodle.org/plugins/?q=award:early-bird-39%20sort-by:sites for the list of the awarded plugins.

Many thanks to the maintainers who keep their plugins up to date with the latest Moodle versions!

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Re: Early bird 3.9

by Tim Hunt -
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Thanks David. I was curious, so started scraping the old posts to see the trend, but when I got to 3.4 I found this nice graph: https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=360579#p1457702

Any chance you could give us an up-to-date graph showing all version?

The numbers I found were

3.5 - Looks like 190 - but I had to count on https://moodle.org/plugins/browse.php?list=award&id=10&p=1 by searching for 'supports Moodle'

3.6 192 out of 1537

3.7 - number not given in the post. From https://moodle.org/plugins/browse.php?list=award&id=12 seems like it is 174

3.8 246

3.9 - as above. 272 out of 1697. That seems to be 16%, so it seems the upward thrend continue.
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Re: Early bird 3.9

by David Mudrák -
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Chart showing the trends in the number of awarded plugins

Yes, thank you Tim. As can be seen, the trend is slightly positively progressing. The latest round makes a new record both in the absolute number of awarded plugins, but also in the relative number of awarded plugin per the total number of available plugins.

That visual drop in the percentage around the 3.6 version is likely caused by the need to update the plugins for the privacy (GDPR) related features as was discussed at https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=378768

Also note, there can be slight mismatch between the total number of available plugins that was announced in the original posts and in this chart. This was caused by the different moments when these were counted and some plugins' availability has changed in between them (such as were approved since then or were deleted since then etc). That should be a few not affecting the overall trend.

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