I think the issue is that more and more of docs are becoming version-specific, even things like performance.
As time goes on cramming that information into one wiki is much worse than clear, separate user manuals for each version, where the search only covers what you need.
This page shows the wiki structure: http://docs.moodle.org/overview/
Just an update on Docs ... I plan to be personally getting stuck into these for the next week or two to wrangle them to the ground a bit more, removing duplicates and so on. At the same time will develop a clearer TODO list for further development.
The trouble is that a lot of changes are still incomplete but that's all in people's heads, and it's not obvious from looking at docs as they are now. Also there are some important pages about Moodle functions that are just factually wrong, which I also need to work on.
I hope everything is much clearer soon!
Just a HEADS UP, the docs are being migrated to all the new URLs today and so everything will be offline for a while. See you on the other side (where a lot of work still waits!)
A correction from above, there will be 2.1 docs cloned from the 2.0 at some point after the 2.0 docs have settled down a bit.
Hi all!
Just a little news about what we are doing in the lead up to 2.1 (due 1st July).
The last big bits are landing today, and we are now frozen (no more large checkins, only bug fixes). Some hoped-for features have not been ready in time, unfortunately, but rest assured they'll arrive as optional downloads or in future core releases.
We are starting the last round of QA testing on Thursday (Helen wil be posting more about this shortly, for those who want to help).
For the last two weeks all the HQ developers will be focussed on making sure all our MDLQA and unit tests pass ... to help speed this up we'll be dropping the usual weekly integration testing and instead doing daily integrations to the integration repository.
If you are fixing bugs please submit for integration as usual, just please be aware that bug fixes relating to the unit and QA tests will take priority.
Cheers,
Martin
Derek, improved course formats are something I've wanted to see in Moodle for many years, it's not sudden. The standard formats were quick things I put together fully expecting new plugins to replace them later. Unfortunately, many of the ones created so far are not very good quality, not maintained, or are too idiosyncratic to be in core.
folderview is a contribution from some folks with a really strong interest in improving and maintaining Moodle, so I was reviewing it in an attempt to get it into 2.1 to solve the well-known problems with long courses. Unfortunately, even though it's close, it won't be ready in time for 2.1. That's why it wasn't on the roadmap.
I expect they'll publish it on the new plugins database on moodle.org at some point for use as a third party format, but that's up to them.