Martin Dougiamas

I'd be interested to see if David's suggestions here are going to work enough to get by.  Please let us know.

In the long term we will have to fix the exceptions in mod to make them consistent with all the other plugin types, see MDL-33783, but it has to be done carefully as it means ALL current 3rd-party activity modules need to be updated to use the correct frankenstyle.

MySQL 5.0?   Moodle 2.3 requires MySQL 5.1.33 or later.

Thanks so much for posting that summary Richard, very useful.  Keep us up to date on the last one here.  (and ForumNG is one of the things we are looking at now)

Some work has been done recently to make Moodle be a little smarter about coping with odd collations MDL-34271 but as Howard said, best to just make sure everything is utf8_unicode_ci as recommended in the install docs.

Moodle 1.9 had long term support.

2.x also has long term support - we keep releasing new .x releases for Moodle 2. We spend a LOT of time making sure we don't break things (even 3rd party things) in the 2.x upgrades.

But if we are going to have one 2.x release that we support for a long time with definitely zero new features then please don't get stuck on 2.2. At least get onto 2.3 or 2.4. To me we are finally getting to where 2.0 was supposed to be (in my mind).

Then we can stop developing 2.x and start working on 3.x.