Martin Dougiamas

Yes, Urs is right. We need a bit more control over textareas than just putting editors in all of them.

The main reason is that not everyone wants editors, or they want them in some places and not others, or they want them to have different configurations in different places (eg messaging editor is really cut down compared to forum editor). Moodle also supports more than XHTML, we support Moodle format, Plain text format, Markdown etc ... for this Moodle needs to control the interface a bit more, and it's all much easier to control via PHP settings than in the themes.

Like all of you, I'm really looking forward to seeing something better than htmlarea integrated into core ASAP. I'm certain we need to concentrate on finding one product to be the default/core/recommended/tweaked version (even if other people want to maintain alternatives as plugins).

What's the overall feeling at the moment? FCKeditor? TinyMCE? Wait for YUI RTE to improve?

Great to finally see this, Martín, THANKS, well done!

As you know I really want to see this in 1.9 even if it delays the release for a while, so I'll be asking everyone here to test it and kick the tires (and the windows and the engine).

About the upgrading issue ... How about if admin/index.php checks the current version of Moodle, and if older than a certain date, sets something in the $SESSION global like $SESSION->upgradingaccesslib. Then all you need is a little check in has_capability() like:

if (!empty($SESSION->upgradingaccesslib)) {

 return true;

}

Yes, this will be fixed. Track it here: MDL-11128

If you look at the beta version of Moodle 1.9, you'll see an "Overview report" that does exactly this. It's very simple currently, just a table of course name, total grade and ranking, but it's easy to extend with features either in the core version of Moodle (give us suggestions!) or in your own reports (because they are plugins now).

I'm doing a lot of stuff with this site as part of the 1.9 testing, updating frequently etc. Best place for such reports is: http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDLSITE