Martin Dougiamas

Well, the rationale for "section 0" was that there needs to be a place to put things that are OUTSIDE the main sequence of the course.  I think this requirement still holds.  The social format relies on it too.

if you want to see the work proceeding for 2.3 (which in the case of modifications to the course formats are really just small tweaks to make paging work better, since we've pushed the massive course refactoring to 2.4), look at: MDL-32476 and especially the subtask MDL-32508

I am really looking forward to seeing all the amazing course formats you guys are going to produce for 2.4!

Perhaps it should be on every page then. 

Note that it's completely optional.  If it's empty then it isn't shown at all, and you just have sections 1..x.

Frederic, a quick way to get that is by using the subpage module - see Mary's description here.

Michael, the planned changes will fix this - the general section is only on the main course page, not on sub pages.

Please see the updated mockups.

http://docs.moodle.org/dev/Paged_course_formats

(you may need to shift-refresh the page)

A key thing I want to re-iterate is that I am trying to update Topics/Weeks formats with the minimal new stuff to make this work in 2.3, while also adding infrastructure (probably in 2.4 now?) to allow 3rd party authors to write much better course formats with all their own settings (so we can put some of those in core as well).