Martin Dougiamas

How do we know there aren't Windows viruses in that package?

Also did you see our own Windows package?   https://download.moodle.org/windows/

This is probably insulting to the 30 or so of us working at HQ!

Sam and Petr had personal reasons for wanting to work in Wellington.  And anyway, we still see them all the time working on Moodle in the tracker, so all good.  

We already have an app that handles Moodle messages.  Sure, it could be slicker, we know. 

If we made it work AS WELL as Telegram or Whatsapp or iMessage, would you and your students use it a lot?

The way everyone usually does that is by using Git to install and maintain your code.   See Git for Administrators.

Yes, all you need to do is replace the files with the new versions, and
then visit the admin page.

The full procedure is here: https://docs.moodle.org/27/en/Installation

And you may also consider Moodle 2.8, being released today