(Apologies if this duplicates anything: Searching on "hidden" and "roles" narrows things down only so far, and I've spent an hour getting blurry-eyed reading issues in the Tracker).
We're running 1.8 (and, because of a relatively complex dev/test environment and virtual server, upgrading to 1.8.2 or 1.8.3 is not a task that is likely to be undertaken lightly). We're encountering one near-crippling issue that is giving us reason to consider pushing the upgrade, but I want to make sure that it's known and fixed (and can't find any record of it when I search the forums or Tacker).
We have a large number of hidden global roles. They are hidden just fine in the Participants list and the gradebook. But in blocks -- Quickmail, Assignment, etc -- they show up. I've found one issue that mentions this affecting 1.7 (http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-9586), but there's no mention of this being resolved even at that stage. Does anyone know if A) this is a known bug in 1.8 (i.e., that there's not something else funky going on), and B) it's resolved at the 1.8.3 or 1.9 stage of things?
Thanks,
Adam Lipkin
Brandeis University