Martin Dougiamas

Correct, there should always be a short summary in the commit message, even just a one-liner.

Actually, I've not noticed any problem. Almost everyone seems to be doing the Right Thing.

Great!

Mostly I think it'll be watching recent changes in the tracker (and/or CVS) to find patches that could be backported to 1.6, and then backporting them.

- Recently resolved issues in tracker

- CVS commits mailing list

Your PHP and Moodle understanding should be pretty good to make sure MOODLE_16_STABLE doesn't have new bugs introduced to it by the backports. And care must be taken not to accidentally check in any local customisations you may have made.

I've just checked, and of the registered sites with 5000 users or more, 135/589 (23%) had 1.6.x when they last registered. (52% had a later version)

Note the actual figure will be lower, because of people who have upgraded and not told us, but it's still fairly significant.

All the more reason for someone to volunteer to maintain 1.6 more than we already are. Perhaps one of those big institutions using it.

I do agree we should move to PNG and even specifying all the icons via CSS. The reason for GIF in the first place (back in 2001) was that IE never supported PNG alpha transparency well ... and from a quick search it appears to still be a problem for IE7. Can that be right? I know about the JS hacks you can do to make it work and there's even a function in weblib for that, but blech....

Our CVS server uses openssh, but I don't think it matters. Any keys that SSH2 accepts such as RSA keys should work just as well.

As for Eclipse, I have no idea as I never use it.