Martin Dougiamas

I have to disagree with this comment about 2.0. Every version of Moodle works fine on cheap shared hosting environments. The only problems can be performance problems which are more related to the number of concurrent users rather than the Moodle version.

For example, it would of course be folly to trust a cheap web host to run a whole University.

Just in short, the main reason in my mind (after we had this discussion a few months back) for the PHP5 move was mostly reduce the load on developers ... keeping track of PHP5 vs PHP4 has started to become a distraction we don't need.

The other thing is that we (as a pretty big software project) can help push those hosts/sysadmins to upgrade their old servers by raising our requirements. It's not like PHP5 is new ... it's years old already. And PHP4 has now been dropped by the PHP team.

For those few who will really not be able to switch from PHP4, even at the end of next year, well, Moodle 1.1 -> 1.9 will still work perfectly well. I don't think such users are really going to be interested in cutting edge features of Moodle 2.0 anyway.

Not yet but that is totally in the plans. OU already have a patch for tagging courses eg MDL-11992

Sarah, can you be a bit more explicit about how you you would LIKE to be able to do this? There were some plans to make more of a drag and drop interface but it won't be in 1.9.

for all five! Is there a tracker issue for this?