Martin Dougiamas

Yes, lots of good work there.

Just FYI, Moodle 1.5 has a complete new Assignment module, and also includes it's own Online Assignment type (to replace the Journal module).

I hope we can get many of these modifications as plugins or in the main code base to avoid too much code forking.

There may be some issue with cvs:/moodle/mod/quiz/restorelib.php which is generally quite smart about reusing questions vs creating new questions. Each question has a unique ID stamp, you see, which is carried along in the backups .. if a question with the same stamp exists then the new one does not overwrite it so that no existing quizzes are disturbed (and thus grades become meaningless etc)

I would suggest filing a report in the bug tracker for some sort of option on this, because there are times when you might want question to be overwritten.

You could also try GIFT or one of the other formats which are less smart about existing questions...

Thanks to the Wiki, I tried the latest Server Logistics packages for Apache2 and PHP on my new Powerbook and they are running great. The main reason to use them is the PHP acceleration ... the difference under OS X is far more noticeable than under Linux.

First I tried adding Turck MMCache myself to the Liyanage packages that I was using, but I just ran into too many dependency issues. Switching to the SL packages made it all very easy.  For everything else (aspell etc) I use Fink.

Note that I maintain a phpmyadmin for Moodle ... it's in cvs:/mysql and you just need to drop the 'mysql' directory in moodle/admin.

It's a bug in cvs:/moodle/lib/wiki_to_markdown.php which converts all texts using the obsolete 'Wiki-like" formatting to Markdown, now fixed in CVS.

Did you use the Wiki-like format a lot? Those entries may look a little odd now because of the failed upgrade.

To fix it, when you get the new code, you can try decrementing the number in the database->modules->journal->version and re-upgrading.