Posts made by Visvanath Ratnaweera

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Hi Mary

That is too general, one needs to mention quiz specifically. See, "if quizzes are in use to do a trial upgrade and test thoroughly if they have the resources or wait till the dust is settled" in my post - a better rephrasing of it. I would go so far to say, sent the notice through your regular announcements.

Sergio
 
> if you have quizzes, then double check first and after upgrade test for broken things, as they seems to be more frequent than in the past
 
You and me even don´t need the advice, since we are in touch with the development. For example, I've spent a lot of time testing that interim Moodle 4.6 (and postponed prod. upgrade to 5.0 to 5.1 the earliest). Tell that to the Moodle administrators who think Moodle upgrades are just click-click like any Windows application.

Don´t understand me wrong. I don´t say the quiz redesign to make question sharing more intuitive was a bad decision. The problem is in the transition, reorganzing the questions resp. question categories. You never know the most unintuitive/cumbersome/unplanned constructions with question categories people have, some just because the teachers don´t look, just keep on duplicating courses, copying full courses over the other through the sharing cart! And Moodleś habit, "in case of doubt, duplicate the categories", dorsn´t help. Remember the exploding question categories not long ago, I had to do with a site which skyrocketed to 3 million questions! I don´t envy the developers who now have to find mechanisms to melt those question categories and cast new ones!
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Dear all

At the rate of upgrade problems coming up in the Quiz forum, won´t it be a service to add a warning to the document page https://docs.moodle.org/500/en/Upgrading, saying that if quizzes are in use to do a trial upgrade and test thoroughly if they have the resources or wait till the dust is settled? Note that the number of broken sites multiply since Moodle regularly sends nasty warnings, "Your site is not up-to-date. Get the latest!" etc. sad

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The annotate PDF feature was very convenient for the teachers but also caused lot of damage. See Has Ghostscript something to do with a half a million lock files?
 
The bug has been fixed but the flood of unwanted PDFs have never been cleared due to the risk of deleting needed PDFs. I´d argue that any Moodle site passed through late 3.x version has huge bloat in moodledata.
 
To your solution: I can´t imagine that the cleaning could be that simple! Need to test in a clone. Due to the sheer size of the affected site, cloning is expensive. But Iḿ curious.