Martin Dougiamas

Firstly: it's fantastic you can work on it!

Secondly: sounds much saner doing it on cron.

Thirdly: Yes, to get in any stable release it really needs to maintain backward compatibility with all existing 1.9 and 1.8 mnet installations. So this might mean detecting what sort of version is at the other end and doing things the old way sometimes. As long as you do this then I'll be totally happy to see it going into 1.9.x and 1.8.x.

For Moodle 2.0 it'll be OK to clean out the crufty old code and just implement the newer better methods (there is bit of this already going on in Moodle 2.0 because it's such a major version) but if the cruft is not too big then it might be worth keeping it anyway to maximise compatibility.

Hi testers,

If you have time to spare, we could really use it this week as we count down to several releases so that we can better spread some of the fixes made in the past few months.

The weekly testing will be extended from basically now until sometime on Thursday.

Thanks very much in advance!

http://docs.moodle.org/en/Development:Weekly_Code_Review

Just to let you know, the usual weekly testing freeze may be a bit longer this week as we are working hard towards putting out some point releases on Thursday (GMT+8) to get a number of recent bug fixes into wider circulation.

Your help in testing and fixing bugs on this list would be very welcome!

http://tracker.moodle.org/secure/IssueNavigator.jspa?mode=hide&requestId=10541

We had a Moodle chat open here for a long time, but it wasn't really used very much (and in fact was abused a little) so it was disabled.

The problem with synchronous is getting people to be interested in using it. I think asynchronous suits most people better (these forums are like a big chat, right?)

Another option is the #moodle IRC channel on Freenode.net, which you can access with any IRC client or via the web using this Java client. It always has a few people there.

Great ideas, we should definitely have FAQ links from everywhere (email, headers, footers). Filed MDLSITE-474 for this.