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Cold numbers:

19 issues have been successfully integrated, 2 rejected during this last cycle - 86% success.

Notes:

• The list of callbacks (hooks, extension points or whatever nomenclature you want to use) is now documented in the dev docs page dev/Callbacks. Please help us ensure it's kept accurate and useful
• Compatibility changes in behat are now documented at dev/Acceptance_testing/Compatibility_changes
• This week brings an end to the Moodle 3.3 on-sync period and improvements/new features for Moodle 3.4 will start being integrated from next week. Held issues from the freeze and on-sync period will be unheld and integrated
• Do you object to raising the minimum PHP version to 7.0.x in Moodle 3.4? Only a few days left to comment on MDL-57432 about that!

Hot topics:

• MDL-57957 - In assignment without grade, feedback files are not shown to students
• MDL-59011 - Restore bug in Moodle 3.3
• MDL-58577 - In statistics report, multilang for role names is not supported in headers

Warm thanks:

To Sam Marshall (Open University) for more than 11 great years of improving Moodle - thanks!

Cold numbers:

19 issues have been successfully integrated, 2 rejected and 1 delayed during this last cycle - 90.48% success.

Notes:

• Moodle 3.3 was released last week, the next 3.3 branch release (Moodle 3.3.1) is scheduled for 10th July
  
• Important: Ongoing discussions in MDL-57432 about requiring PHP 7.x branch for Moodle 3.4 as well as other server requirements
  
• Peer reviews welcomed: https://tracker.moodle.org/issues/?filter=13607
  

Hot topics:

• Many interesting stuff integrating during the last weeks https://docs.moodle.org/dev/Moodle_3.3_release_notes
  
• MDL-58656 course competencies report can throw errors due to scales.
  
• MDL-57558 ldap_get_entries_moodle() doesn't lowercase attribute names used as keys in the returned array.
  
• MDL-58947 Search: Label URLs not correctly calculated
  

Warm thanks:

For the 2 new members of the integration team: Jun Pataleta and Jake Dallimore. Heavy duty machines. Thanks for everything.

Cold numbers:

9 issues have been successfully integrated, 1 rejected and 2 delayed - 90% success.

Notes:

- Last week was a busy week following on from a well deserved Easter break for most people.

- This now marks the second beta release for Moodle 3.3

- Continuous integration is still underway as we shoot towards the upcoming release candidate.

Hot topics:

- LDAP authentication stuck in forced password change loop

- Clarify UX for teachers when switching workshop stages

Warm thanks:

A big thank you to everyone who's been helping with the QA testing for Moodle 3.3. Without your continued support, the release would certainly take a lot longer to arrive!

Cold numbers: 

29 issues have been successfully integrated, 1 rejected and 3 delayed - 96% success.

Notes:

• This week, the new and improved My Overview block has landed in master through MDL-55611! Feel free to check it out and report any issues in the follow-up epic MDL-58384.
  
• New OAuth2 Services feature (MDL-58220) that provides users authenticated access to external services, such as Google Drive, Office 365, Facebook, etc., as the current user or using a system account.
  
• Another major feature for Moodle 3.3 is expected to land next week. Watch out for bulk editing of activity completion in MDL-58138!
• Continuous integration commences next week!
  

• MDL-55611 - MyOverview block
  
• MDL-58220 - Implement Better office integrations project 
  
• Others:
  
  • Jake Dallimore and yours truly integrated our first issues this week! (Yay!) It felt awesome and scary at the same time. 
    

• To Moodle HQ's iTeam for their guidance to Moodle HQ's new integrators!
  
• To Damyon Wiese and the rest of Moodle HQ's Project Team for a job well done in making the My Overview block and the new OAuth2 Services feature.
  

Cold numbers:

48 issues have been successfully integrated, 4 rejected and 5 delayed - 92% success.

Notes:

• Font Awesome has been integrated to Moodle in MDL-40759 for replacing many icons with this open source font icon set. This change will make quite a significant visual difference to Moodle. It is not yet perfect and it is hoped that now the change is in master, more feedback and changes to icons will be gathered. Please report problems and follow up issues in epic MDL-58354. Documentation about this change can be found at https://docs.moodle.org/dev/Moodle_icons#Font_awesome_icons
• Moodle 3.2.2 and associated pointed releases included a number of security fixes, CVE-2017-2641 was a particularly nasty issue which an exploit scenario is getting a lot of publicity on the web. Please update your sites to protect against this with some urgency. Forum thread Applying patch to protect against CVE-2017-2641 contains some good information.
• Next week will be a bumper Integration week with some major 3.3 features landing for integration (MDL-55611 MDL-58220), we appreciate your patience in these busier times - many issues have been delayed over the last few weeks.
• Moodle HQ are recruiting developers, experienced Moodle developers are particularly welcomed!
• Code freeze starts 3rd April for Moodle 3.3 - get ready!

Hot topics

• MDL-40759 - Use the Font Awesome icon font for all icons in Moodle
• MDL-57429 - Openbadges backpack connection broken on Moodle
• MDL-34859 - General Restore Defaults
• MDL-57162 - Option to enable app install banners for the Android mobile app
• MDL-57796/ MDL-57397 - Many many new webservices for mod_lesson and and mod_feedback

Warm thanks:

To Juan Leyva, Moodle Mobile App Lead, for all work on the mobile app, his plugins and particularly this week many many web services and hard work rationalising apis for use by the app, thanks!

Cold numbers:

19 issues have been successfully integrated with 2 rejected and 4 delayed. That's 90% success, nice one!

Notes:

• Next Monday, March 13th, we'll be releasing a number of minor/security releases for the 27, 30, 31 and 32 stable branches of Moodle.
• Immediately after the minors, the final countdown towards Moodle 3.3 will start: finishing developments (freeze happening on April 3rd - also Monday), fixing bugs, testing... everything should be done and ready for releasing on May the 2nd, Monday too, of course.
• Right now here are 28 issues awaiting peer review. Please help reducing the list. Let's see how many are remaining next… Monday.

Hot topics:

• MDL-51833 : Avoid event monitor load to happen on all pages.
• MDL-48228 : Full Unicode support for MySQL and MariaDB.
• MDL-55980 : Run scheduled tasks from web.
• MDL-53978 : Add plugin callbacks @ strategic points of page rendering.
• And lots more in areas like themes, performance, libraries, accessibility...

Warm thanks:

• To Mondays for being one of my fav. days of the week. Exactly my 7th favorite.

Don’t say you don’t have enough time.

You have exactly the same number of

hours per day that were given to

Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michaelangelo,

Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci,

Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.

-- H. Jackson Brown Jr.

Cold numbers:

19 issues have been successfully integrated, 2 rejected and 3 delayed - 90% success.

Notes:

• This week MDL-46375 landed, allowing Moodle's file pool to be implemented on non-posix filesystems (e.g. cloud-based systems like S3) by creating a new file_system class. See https://docs.moodle.org/dev/File_System_API#Defining_a_new_filesystem and kick the tires for us so we can sure this API is in the best possible shape at 3.3 release.
• Work is ongoing for a new improved dashboard which was voted on by the Moodle User Association (MUA), follow along in MDL-55611 and see https://docs.moodle.org/dev/My_course_overview_improvements
• Font awesome is coming with better core support, learn more at the Font awesome discussion in the themes forum

Hot topics:

• MDL-4782 - allow resources/activities to be hidden but available/active
• MDL-57896 - cli script to get/set configuration options
• MDL-57810 - Better page progressive loading experience on NGINX
• MDL-57766 - Marker allocation does not work on assignment grader page

Warm thanks:

To Paul Greidanus, Devops at Moodle HQ and constantly working in the background to keep things running smoothly, thanks!

Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.

-- Jimi Hendrix

Cold numbers:

14 issues have been successfully integrated, 2 rejected and 2 delayed - 87.5% success

Notes:

• setExpectedExceptions is deprecated, more info in MDL-57853
• If anyone feels like reviewing code you can find a list of awesome issues waiting to be peer reviewed 
• Do the plugins you maintain use YUI? Check out https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=346520

Hot topics:

• MDL-57370 Notifications and messages nav popovers slow or unresponsive
  
• MDL-57587 Feedback images when reviewing a quiz attempt not showing
  
• MDL-57316 If filter_mediaplugins is disabled, video.js is not working in resources
  
• MDL-56954 Course management page requires styling in Boost

Warm thanks:

To all 3rd party plugin developers. Moodle core is flexible (and now with Boost theme even beautiful) but you are the ones making Moodle special. Thanks for sharing your plugins with the community.

Cold numbers:

17 issues have been successfully integrated, 2 rejected and 2 delayed - 89% success.

Notes:

• Interested in better integrations with Google Drive and Microsoft Office 365? A project will begin development shortly to improve these office integrations. Damyon Wiese has published the requirements doc Better Office Integrations 3.3 and comments are welcomed on the office integrations forum thread
• The Moodle dev chat moved yesterday from jabber to telegram, all developers are welcome! Come join the 55 of already there in https://telegram.me/moodledev
• Rex Lorenzo has posted about an improvement that UCLA have made to the activity chooser to allow teachers to simplify the choices, join the discussion if you'd like to see this in core
• MoodleMoot UK and Ireland 2017 is taking place in London in April and includes a dev jam! It would be great to meet some of you there - registrations are open now!

Hot topics:

• MDL-36233 - For teacher - course overview block inconsistently lists "Submissions not graded" link for assignments
• MDL-57638 - block_rss_client does not respect skiptime and skipuntil values
• MDL-57782 - Welcome e-mails are sent even when 'sendcoursewelcomemessage' is set to 'no'
• MDL-54628 - Add the creation of links to the individual commands suggested in parallel executions

Warm thanks:

To Jake Dallimore Moodle HQ Developer, who has jumped straight into fixing the most narly of Moodle bugs without a break in his stride. Kudos!

Cold numbers:

46 issues have been successfully integrated along the last 2 weeks with 3 rejected and 6 delayed. That's 94% success, sup!

Notes:

• After a good number of iterations, discussions, it was decided to close won't fix the proposal for a new hooks API. Instead we'll be looking towards adding new hooking points at interesting places and performing small improvements to existing APIs along the time. Don't forget to take a look to the Communication Between Components doc that pretty much defines how all interactions between Moodle components should be.
• In the other side, persistent and exporter APIs have been moved from the competencies API to core, becoming globally available. Read about them and look for current uses. It's nice stuff.
• Are you, anywhere in the world, a coding ninja with Moodle experience? Interested into working working with us @ HQ? Take a look to this job offer.
• Right now there are 29 issues awaiting peer review, any help is welcome there.

Hot topics:

• MDL-57690, MDL-57488... : Getting rid/replacing, when possible, Yui stuff, aiming to, slowly, marching towards js modules.
• MDL-57570, MDL-57655... : Adding the igbinary serializer into different places (redis and static cache store, redis session handler...).
• MDL-57655 : Videojs/Youtube loading improvements.
• MDL-57677 : Fixed authorship of edited forum posts.
• MDL-57515 : Improvements to resources having many files.
• And lots more in areas like web services, forums, behat tests, assignments...

Warm thanks:

• To Simey Lameze from HQ. And his wife! Have been some good months (October 2016) since they got married, but better later than never, congrats! And keep the hard work with Moodle going!

Functional programming combines

the flexibility and power of abstract mathematics

with the intuitive clarity of abstract mathematics.

---- xkcd

Cold numbers:

15 issues have been successfully integrated, with 4 rejected - 78% success, quite some difference to the 80 per week at the tail end of the last release cycle!

Notes:

• This week Linting of behat .feature files landed into master using gherkin-lint and run automatically using grunt. At the moment we use it ensure consistent indentaion and avoid duplicate names, but more lint rules may be enabled in future

• Are you using calendar_event_hook() - it is due to be removed in 3.3, see Removal of calendar_event_hook().

• Active record, in Moodle? Maybe! See the branch heading to integration in MDL-57273 and dev docs: https://docs.moodle.org/dev/Persistent

• Do you know on some pages we include YUI2, YUI3, and jQuery? As we make Moodle more dynamic we need to reduce this client-side bloat. It would be great to reduce our depdencies on legacy JS, especially for things that can have a presence on every page. Perhaps you can help out with reducing javascript-static.js (MDL-57470) or making YUI2 finally disapear (MDL-36373)? Think about greping your add-on plugins and try modernising them before we force your hand with a depreciation, it might mean you can contribute a common helper that reduces the work for other developers, every little helps!

• Today 3 integrators will be gathering in spain for a (rare and relatively impromptu) in-person meeting til Sunday, we aim to discuss various improvements to integration infrastructure, upcoming Moodle development areas and our role in supporting and interacting with developers. If you think there is something we should discuss, please do get in touch

Hot topics:

• MDL-53367 - Importing a forum with auto subscription does not subscribe current users
• MDL-57427 - Moodle always enables performance debugging in MUC
• MDL-56519 - Lint .feature files
• MDL-40132 - Using compare rule results in fatal error in getValidationScript function
• MDL-55461 - [atto_equation] Repeating insertion from predefined buttons does not place them where the cursor is set

Warm thanks:

To Dan Marsden, thanked for contributing to Moodle in too many ways to mention, but most recently for his work on maintaining mod_scorm and fantastic contribution as a Plugins Guardian helping to support our healthy community of add-on developers.

It's been some time since we our last update - apologies for the interupation and thanks to David Monllaó who provided this update on behalf of the integration team:

Cold numbers:

488 issues have been successfully integrated since the last integration exposed post, with 43 issues reopened and 13 delayed, a 92% success

Notes:

• Next Monday (9th January) we will release Moodle 3.2.1, it is a good moment to upgrade your sites to to 3.2 branch. Along with it we will release new versions for all maintained stable versions: Moodle 3.1.4, Moodle 3.0.8 and Moodle 2.7.18
• The continuous integration and on-sync periods are over, we started Moodle 3.3 development cycle, new features and improvements are already landing in master branch, which already diverged from MOODLE_32_STABLE
• Nice new docs page for people interested in moving your institution's theme to a boost-based theme https://docs.moodle.org/dev/Creating_a_theme_based_on_boost
• We are increasing the number of user interfaces that are generated or updated through Javascript, it is becoming more and more important that we are all aware of common promises pitfalls and the best practices to follow. Request for comments: Ensuring promise best practices with eslint-plugin-promise
• Yummy list of issues that are waiting for a peer reviewer https://tracker.moodle.org/issues/?filter=13607

Hot topics:

• MDL-38158: Introduce pluggable media players in Moodle, add VideoJS player
• MDL-29795: Add user/group overrides for mod/assign
• MDL-48498: Create a setting for a blacklist of disallowed hosts for the curl class in Moodle
• MDL-48468: Add a Redis cache store to Moodle core

• MDL-55927: Move the radius authentication plugin to contrib

• MDL-56911: Theme CSS setting:name failed to operate in RTL

• MDL-56051: Add support for drag and drop blocks in boost
• MDL-57194: Allow chart colours to be customised site-wide.
• MDL-57023: User tours should remember previous step when revisitng the page
• MDL-56139: Message area should update with ajax rather than page reload
• MDL-56431: Messages page is not accessible

Warm thanks:

To everybody involved in 3.2 release, from people involved in designing new features, to issues reporters, developers, reviewers, testers, Helen and Mary, marketing... It has been tough but the result is great!

Cold numbers:

55 issues have been successfully integrated, 14 rejected and 3 delayed - 79% success.

Notes:

• We are entering into the continuous integration period. Integration and testing will continue throughout each week and we will be aiming for 2 or more releases each week until Moodle 3.2 is released.
• Code freeze for Moodle 3.2 is now in force, which means any non bug fix issues are given the integration_held label and are explicitly not picked for integration. Issues can be requested to be unheld using the 'unhold_requested' label
• QA for 3.2 will begin on Monday, all help testing, fixing and polishing the release will be greatly appreciated! See Moodle 3.2 QA starting on 31st Oct.

Hot topics:

• MDL-55074 - Significant block and navigation changes for Boost.
• MDL-56006 - "Boost" the default theme for new installs of Moodle
• MDL-53048 - Create new "password" fields that are not auto-filled by password managers

Warm thanks:

To Damyon Wiese, Development manager at Moodle HQ, for his efforts to boost theme_boost, support of team and beer brewing.

Happy Diwali!

Cold numbers:

54 issues have been successfully integrated with 5 rejected and 3 delayed. That's 92% success, again!

Notes:

• Today, October 24th, @ 14:00 AU/Perth time, code freeze will happen. That makes the start of the the continuous integration period, 5 weeks countdown, towards Moodle 3.2 release (November 28th).
• In general, new features and improvements won't be allowed after freeze, with everybody working on fixing and testing issues, aiming to bring the max stability and polishing to the new version.
• Next week, the 3.2 quality assurance cycle will start, with every problem detected getting fix priority. Aiming to 100% pass rate!
• Don't forget to be proactive labeling the issues while reporting, triaging, fixing, integrating and testing them. There are a number of processes depending of those labels (user and dev documentation, release notes...) and it's always better to label in excess than missing them.
• Right now there are 19 issues awaiting peer review, let's try to process all those that can be suitable for 3.2.
• No matter the 3.2 major release, we'll be also releasing minor Moodle 2.7.17, 2.9.9, 3.0.7 and 3.1.3 updates in 3 weeks (November 14th).
• OS/Browser/Selenium versions for testing have been fixed for Moodle 3.2 and they will be used for its life cycle.

Hot topics:

• MDL-54945 : Workshop portfolio API integration.
• MDL-45639 : SSO from mobile to web site.
• MDL-45639 : Allow to inject pre-scss to the new Boost theme.
• MDL-53832 : LTI v2.0 support added to enrol_lti.
• MDL-56022 : Assignment offline grading in plain, 1 level, folder.
• MDL-43230 : Manually revoke badges.
• And lots more in areas like themes, messaging, book, unit and acceptance tests, book...

Warm thanks:

• To Ruslan Kabalin, for his continuous help in different areas of Moodle along the years in a supportive and sweet way. And because Open Source matters, you true lovers!

For me, open source is a moral thing.

--- Matt Mullenweg

Cold numbers:

42 issues integrated, 4 rejected and 5 delayed. 92% success, yippee!

Notes:

1w to Freeze and 2w to QA start. 6w to 3.2 release. Big weeks. Be patient. 31 issues awaiting peer-review.

Hot topics:

MDL-54682 (messaging UI changes), MDL-52051 (DropBox API v2), MDL-27072 (quiz reports better handling users), MDL-53695 (new minifier), MDL-56248 (phpunit 5.5.), a lots more in themes, unit tests, performance...

Warm thanks:

• To Colin Campbell, for all his sustained work detecting, reporting and fixing issues (especially gradebook ones). Many, many thanks, much appreciated!

Kids get bored easily. They have got to

get out and get their hands dirty: make things,

dismantle things, fix things.

--- Bruce Dickinson

Cold numbers:

64 issues have been successfully integrated with 5 rejected and 3 delayed. That's 93% success, really nice!

Notes:

• Moodle 3.2 release has been delayed by 2 weeks (November 28th) in order to get the new Boost theme as polished as possible.
• Everything else has been accordingly sliced by 2 weeks, so the new code freeze date is October 24th, 14:00 Perth/Australia TZ.
• QA testing will happen with both the Clean and Boost themes to ensure that everything is ok.
• Last week, right after rolling the weeklies (October 6th), an important problem was found and, once fixed, new weeklies were rolled a day later (October 7th). Please, run away from the 6th version (Build: 20161006) and use the 7th version instead (Build: 20161007).
• Right now there are 58 issues awaiting peer-review. Would be great to get the maximum of them ready for integration before freeze. Help is welcome!
• Did you know this little nice feature now available in the profile pages @ moodle.org? Well done, David!

Hot topics:

• MDL-31243 : Refactor sql code generation for getting accesses and enrolments.
• MDL-55986 : Various problems with behat under Windows fixed.
• MDL-52317 : Better resizing of large images.
• MDL-56069 : Fixes to quiz navigation scroll.
• MDL-55990: Fixed a rare database upgrade problem.
• MDL-39117 : Added APCu cache store to core.
• MDL-22078 : Added course end date support to core.
• MDL-56172 : Old CSS optimizer has been removed from 3.2.
• MDL-55964 : Fixes to the competencies breakdown report.
• Many 3rd part libraries upgraded.
• And lots more in areas like themes, web services, javascript, assignments, installation, forms...

Warm thanks:

• To Mary Evans, for all her theme contributions and for being a themes forum moderator. And, of course, for maintaining lots of additional themes for Moodle. Big thanks!

If your music is great, you will have fans, not because

you have spent time chatting on social media.

-- Bryan Adams

Cold numbers:

Along the the last 2 weeks 53 issues have been successfully integrated with 6 rejected and 16 delayed. That's 89% success, good one!

Notes:

• First of all, sorry for the delayed issues. Both the complexity of some of the issues and the reduced availability of people (national holidays, Australian Moot...) have leaded to that. Of course, all those delayed issues will get prioritized handling next week, so they should be meeting core really soon.
• We are just 10 days away from code freeze (October 10th, 14:00 Perth/Australia TZ). That means that, if everything is ready, the awesome Moodle 3.2 will be released in just 6 weeks (November 14th).
• Everybody is welcome to discuss, comment about next-next Moodle 3.3 release requirements @ MDL-54901 and linked issues.
• We are phasing out both jshint and csslint, replacing them with modern and better supported eslint and stylelint. It has been a complex matter to get them configured in a balanced and useful way and, surely, adjustments will happen along the time.
  Now they are (being) perfectly integrated into our development facilities (grunt, travis, cibot...) and your favorite IDE should be able to work with them too. As a result of all that work, now both the Javascript coding style and CSS coding style are way better defined and checked.
  Special thanks to Dan Poltawski for taking and leading the project and to everybody that has collaborated along the last months towards it.
• A renewed, XAMPP based, Moodle installer for Windows has been rolled recently. It comes with PHP7 and MariaDB and works with Windows Vista and later versions (XP/2003 users should continue using previous versions). For any problem, idea, please comment @ MDLSITE-4669.
• Important: Last week we detected a small, but important regression included in last (September 12th) releases. Sites with the $CFG->loginhttps option enabled got the "forgot password" functionality broken. It has been already fixed (MDL-55945) and everybody using those recent releases and having the option enabled is recommended to update to the corresponding "plus" (weeklies) current versions. Finally, side note, here there is also a recommendation to stop using such a $CFG->loginhttps option. It provides a non-accurate sense of security, keeping everything else not secured. Change to full encrypted site ASAP (shouldn't be hard if you are already doing it for logins!).

Hot topics:

• MDL-55071 : The new "Boost" theme (Bootstrap 4 based) has landed. Still many things to polish there, but it's the base and future of Moodle theming. Current/ongoing prototype available here.
• MDL-55837 : Together with previous issue, both the base and canvas themes have been deprecated and won't be part of core anymore.
• MDL-42041 : Better placement for book's "Turn edit on" button.
• MDL-29332 : Correct case-sensitive handling of data in calculated questions. Sites being affected by this and using old (< 3.0.x) Moodle versions should upgrade to supported version or, alternatively, try some of the workarounds proposed in both the docs and in the issue.
• MDL-53870 : Needed modifications in core in order to allow offline quizzes from the Mobile app.
• And lots more in areas like web services, themes, libraries, enrolment, messaging...

Warm thanks:

• To Jason Hardin, from Moodle's partner Moodlerooms, because of all his work related with accessibility: organizing meetings, proxying requests, reporting problems and providing solutions and all his continuous collaborations here and there. Thanks!

Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots.

So far, the Universe is winning.

– Rich Cook

Cold numbers:

22 issues have been successfully integrated with 6 rejected - 78% success.

Notes:

• We are 4 weeks away from code freeze (10th October). It's crunch time!
• The new boostrap4 based theme is coming along in MDL-55070 and associated issues, the team are working through outstanding problems detected by behat and then the  branch will be sent for integraion. Have a play on the prototype site.
• Did you miss the recent Usability test? Now would be a great time to subscribe to the usability forum and tell your users about future studies - to help shape the future of Moodle UX

Hot topics:

• MDL-55791 - New capability to allow certain users through Maintenance mode
  
• MDL-55727 - New AMD JS modal module
• MDL-52798 - Calendar preferences links unified to user preferences page
  
• MDL-41174 - Ajax quick edit of activity name does not update the calendar event name

To Jan Eberhardt for the patches and plugins contributed to the Moodle community and especially this week when I duplicated your work!

Cold numbers:

18 issues have been successfully integrated, 2 rejected and 1 delayed - 90% success

Notes:

• 2 weeks for new minor releases: 3.1.2, 3.0.6, 2.9.8 and 2.7.16 (https://docs.moodle.org/dev/Releases#General_release_calendar)
  
• It is a good moment to start sending big issues to integration if they are ready, no need to wait until for the week before the code freeze
  
• Many sick people in Perth
  

Hot topics:

MDL-38105 Allow negative score for rubric and change default grade calculation method

MDL-55312 Load timeout for modules: core/first occurs after purge caches

MDL-54873 Assignment blind marking performance issues

MDL-55710 Add support for doughnut chart type

Warm thanks:

To Mathieu Petit-Clair, a Moodle legend that rejoined HQ after some years in Canada. For his work in MoodleCloud

Cold numbers:

41 issues have been successfully integrated, 0 rejected and 0 delayed - 100% success!

Notes:

• In http://prototype.moodle.net/ you can test some Moodle 3.2 new features, a nice way to easily see the new features in action, feel free to provide feedback in https://moodle.org/mod/forum/view.php?id=8052 or on the tracker issues linked to each project's site
  
• MoodleMoot Australia 2016 will be in Perth, where most of HQ employees work and live. The conference looks good. Plenty of beaches and black swans as well.
  
• GSOC 2016 just finished. Thanks to all students and mentors involved this year, thanks to Helen and Dan Marsden as well. Project outcomes will be presented in https://docs.moodle.org/dev/Developer_meeting_September_2016
  

Hot topics:

• MDL-18592 Allow teacher to make choices for students
  
• MDL-54680 Offer cartridges in LTI provider
  
• MDL-55445 Add ability to add small and large logos into core
  
• MDL-46514 Behat does not recognise the fatal error
  
• MDL-44712 improve Multi-SCO completion handing in activity completion
  
• MDL-55072 Upgrades to Behat so it can work with different themes
  
• MDL-55628 Course completion uses cache inefficiently
  
• MDL-55604 Static acceleration inconsistently uses cache_cached_object
  
• MDL-55229 Meta Enrolment - Search for course produces error
  

Warm thanks:

To all contributors which contributed patches weren’t accepted into core, because we appreciate a lot that you dedicated time to improve Moodle, and we would like to encourage you to continue contributing to Moodle and to express your opinion if you don't agree with our decisions.

Cold numbers:

57 issues have been successfully integrated with 8 rejected - 88% success.

Notes:

• Work is ongoing on a new bootstrap-4 based theme in MDL-55070 - try for yourself at the prototype site and join the discussion at the themes forum.
• The official list of webservice functions should now be more accurate and descriptive with the automation of the list generation 
• Messaging is getting a UI rethinking over in MDL-54682
• The CSS coding style was recently approved and CSS/LESS/SCSS are now being linted more thoroughly with stylelint (MDL-55058)
• A proposal has been put forward to make the file conversions an API (MDL-55528)

Hot topics:

• MDL-3782 - Allow multiple answers in cloze MULTICHOICE question type
  
• MDL-55292 - Added support for profiling with Tidways (supports php7)
  
• MDL-54606 - Added support for Redis as a session handler
  
• MDL-45734 / MDL-55061 - New event for badges and grade exporting
  
• MDL-55464 - Add "mod/label:view" permission to allow interesting use cases for restricted messages
  
• MDL-55140 - Allow choice open and close dates to act separately
  
• MDL-50286 / MDL-51078 - some improvements to log report to allow better filtering
• MDL-53016 - Autoloader now supports PSR-4
  

Warm thanks:

Cold numbers:

88 issues have been successfully integrated, 11 rejected and 3 delayed - 88.89% success.

Notes:

• Charts JS has been selected as the new charts library for Moodle, most of Moodle's graphs have been converted to chartsjs already, more to come. You can take a look at them in master branch as MDL-54987 has already been integrated.
• If you are a developer you have probably used setExpectedException method when writing unit tests, master branch switched to phpunit 5.4 branch, expectedException() and expectedExceptionMessage() should be used instead now. More info in MDL-55091
  
• Ongoing discussions regarding Moodle hooks in MDL-44078 and https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=327349
  
• We updated jQuery to 3.1 in master branch, you may be interested in checking jQuery change log if you are using it in your plugins

Hot topics:

• MDL-54987: Introduce a new chart API and library
  
• MDL-55048: Upgrade grunt and npm dependencies (and add travis checks on node version variants)
  
• MDL-31356: IMS Enterprise enrol plugin added features
  
• MDL-37250: Lessons students attempts are not saved if they timeout
• MDL-54977: Getting to the bottom level of menus breaks them
• MDL-18599: Upon restore, association of "owner" of single simple discussion forum type defaults to user completing restore. Solution: hide author of the first post
• MDL-50937: Update to JQuery 3.1
  
• MDL-53222: Revise admin settings/report for global search for improved usability
  
• MDL-11369: Choice deadline does not appear in the course calendar
  

Warm thanks:

To Ken Task, for his dedication helping to everybody in the forums, always positive. And because Yesterday it was his 10 years Moodle anniversary!

Cold numbers:

50 issues have been successfully integrated with 1 rejected and 2 delayed. That's 98% success, near unbeatable!

Notes:

• Moodle 3.2 requirements (MDL-53019) have been applied to master and, from now on, PHP 5.6.5 is the minimum version supported. Update your development environments!
• Everybody is welcome to discuss, comment about next-next Moodle 3.3 release @ MDL-54901.
• Next Monday (July 11th) we'll be releasing new minor versions 2.7.15, 2.9.7, 3.0.5 and 3.1.1, coming with some nice bug fixes, back-port requests applied and, of course, the latest security fixes.
• After a period of instability and many, many tested combinations, we have finally defined the working combos that everybody should be using for Moodle 3.1 and up.

Hot topics:

• MDL-54734 : Problems with forum mails not observing recipient language.
• MDL-54165 : Improve the grading interface when unoconv is not available.
• MDL-54869 : Fixed upload of private user files from web-services and API clarified.
• MDL-54877 : Fixes to the LTI tools managing page.
• And lots more in areas like web services, assignments, user management, javascript, workshops...

Warm thanks:

• To Mary Cooch, because of all those awesome screencasts, showing every new feature of Moodle in an beautiful way. And because often we, crazy developers, introduce last-minute changes ruining her work and, no matter of that, her mood / reaction is always positive and great. Thanks!

Writing is good, thinking is better.

Cleverness is good, patience is better.

-- Herman Hesse

Cold numbers:

26 issues have been successfully integrated with 6 rejected and 6 delayed. That's 81% success, not bad after some weeks for many of them waiting frozen in the fridge!

Notes:

• After 5 intense weeks of continuous integration and testing (1, 2), the 3.1 release and, finally, 3 weeks under on-sync... we are back to normal weeklies, yay!
• All the frozen issues along those 8 weeks have been moved to integration and will be normally processed, hopefully without much delays, in a couple of weeks. Thanks all!
• We really wanted to introduce the new eslint (JS lint / coding style) tool early in the cycle (MDL-52127), so it's already there, with both grunt and CiBoT using it for every master modification/patch out there. There is still some fine-tuning work in order to get the final rules applied (see MDL-54939, MDLSITE-4628...), but it's a step towards getting JS under control. Please be patient, it all should become final and documented really soon.
• Last week was the due date for deciding about the next Moodle 3.2 requirements (to be released on November 2016) and, for it and upwards, we are moving to PHP 5.6.5 as minimum version supported. No changes in database versions neither extensions so far. Visit the issue (MDL-53019) for more details about the decision and linked information. The change implies that, in a couple of weeks, your (master) development and testing environments won't work anymore with PHP 5.4 and 5.5, be warned !
• At the same time, the issue (MDL-54901) about deciding next-next requirements (Moodle 3.3, May 2017), has been created, we have 6 months to discuss and decide about it. You are welcome!

Hot topics:

• MDL-54842: Fix html problems in the assignment grading page.
• MDL-54837: Exception on manage tags page.
• MDL-54562: Global search now supporting database activity area.
• MDL-54797: Indexed deletion of completion criteria.
• And lots more in areas like blogs, themes, quizzes, javascript...

Warm thanks:

• To Helen Foster, because she checks all the language strings - and it takes hours - and it is something that nobody actually realises or appreciates - you just see the finished words and don't think about it. Not only because of that, but because of that too!

People think that computer science is

the art of geniuses but the actual reality

is the opposite, just many people doing things

that build on each other, like a wall of mini stones.

-- Donald Knuth

Cold numbers: 

57 issues have been successfully integrated and 8 rejected since the start of freeze period - 86% success.

Notes:

• We have just released Moodle 3.1 beta, signifying the point where we are feature complete for the upcoming release. We renew our focus on stabilising, testing and polishing to iron out any outstanding issues. If you maintain a Moodle site and are able to test Moodle 3.1 on a copy of that data, please give it a go and report any problems experienced in the tracker.
  
• QA Testing of Moodle 3.1 is progressing well, with 85% of tests passed so far
• Be aware that some deprecated web-services have been removed in 3.1 MDL-49414
• Server requirements for 3.2 are being defined in MDL-53019 - please add your views to that issue before discussion closes at the end of the month

Hot topics:

• MDL-53738 - Feedback module enabled by default
  
• MDL-52035 - LTI Provider added support in Moodle
  
• MDL-51142 - "Login as" no longer modifies assignment submission status
  
• MDL-52550 - Unable to drag-n-drop an image into Atto in IE
  

Warm thanks:

Cold numbers:

33 issues have been successfully integrated with 3 rejected and 10 delayed. That's 92% success, beautiful one!

Notes:

• Given the size and complexity of issues landing last week we had to delay a number of them (10) for this week. Aiming to kill (in the good way) all them ASAP. Thanks for your patience!
• From now on we are in the continuous integration period, trying to release as often as possible and with some strict rules about holding improvements and new features that did not pass the freeze barrier.
• Moodle 3.1 QA testing round will start this week and, as far as we are not feature complete yet, some of the tests will be held and executed later. Also, it's possible that other tests will need to be executed twice, once various adjustments to features are performed.
• Please, be aggressive labeling the issues you are working on. Having them properly set (docs_required, dev_docs_required, api_change, release_notes, ui_change...) really helps to have the documentation updated and on time for release. Specially call for the last one, ui_change, because usually it involves reviewing both screenshots and videos, a great deal of effort. Of course, everybody is welcome to collaborate, you know the motto, "it's a wiki!".

Hot topics:

• MDL-53451: CBE has been integrated into core.
• MDL-52954: Improvements to the assignments grading interface.
• MDL-53772: Problems with contexts and validate_context() fixed.
• MDL-52781: Centralized way to validate/clean user information.
• MDL-51603: New dataformat plugin type to improve exporting of information.
• And lots more in areas like forums, assignments, web services, usability, global search...

Warm thanks:

• To the iTeam, because we are about to start a period that requires the best from all us (patience, attention, wide thinking...) and they deserve these thanks and more. Go, go, go, Andrew, Dan, David and Rajesh, we can!

Everybody else specializes.

Daddy knows everything,

and he puts the pieces together.

-- Robert A. Heinlein

Cold numbers:

20 issues have been successfully integrated with 6 rejected and 1 delayed. That's 77% success, twice my favorite number, heh!

Notes:

• Countdown: 5 weeks for 3.1 release, and code freeze is next Monday 14:00h, Perth/Australia time.
• Once freeze is in effect, any improvement or new feature will be labelled as "integration_held" and those issues won't be considered till some weeks after release. No matter of that there is a last chance of having those issues re-considered for integration by labelling them as "unhold_requested". Development managers will review all those requests and decide if they are accepted for 3.1 or finally held.
• There are 26 issues awaiting peer-review. How many of them will find their way before freeze?
• Please, try not comment into closed issues, at least without creating a new issue as followup. Closed issues are rarely followed and it's highly possible to get those comments lost/ignored. If there is any objection, problem, regression... please create new issues always.

Hot topics:

• MDL-45064: LTI preconfigured activities can be picked in the activity chooser.
• MDL-45064: Allow multiple areas to be filtered on search.
• MDL-52707: Allow tags to be combined.
• MDL-53440: Better workflow for accepting multiple courses.
• MDL-53440: New options added to external_format_text()
• And lots more in areas like web services, tags, courses, wiki...

Warm thanks:

• To The Nothing, mainly because today I feel myself inspired enough to be original. Maybe also coz that is my brain content lately, who knows. LOL. Thanks!

If builders built buildings the way

programmers built programs,

then the first woodpecker that came along

would destroy civilization.

-- Gerald Weinberg

Cold numbers: 

31 issues have been successfully integrated, 2 rejected and 3 delayed - 94% success.

Notes:

• In case you missed it - code freeze for 3.1 has been bumped back to April 18th, the entire schedule is moved back, so that  the planned release of 3.1 is scheduled for May 23th. Note that the minor releases schedule is not affected and will happen as scheduled on May 9th.
  
• Use of chained steps in behat has been deprecated. See docs page Migrating_from_Behat_2.5_to_3.x_in_Moodle for how this might impact you (MDL-53381) 
• After some extensive discussion a new guidance has been given for the use of magic methods, see Coding_style#Magic_methods

Hot topics:

• MDL-17955 - Forum timed posts no longer marked as experimental
  
• MDL-43470 - Unable to select multiple values while mapping site-wide feedback to courses
  
• MDL-53612 - Book chapters added to global search
  
• MDL-53461 - Intro images are not shown in the mobile app
• MDL-53500 - User Complete/Outline report will not show activities with "view" capability to parent role
  

Warm thanks:

To Jun Pataleta for many bug fixes, peer reviews and guiding this integrator to his home!

Cold numbers:

53 issues have been successfully integrated with 5 rejected and 1 delayed. That's 91% success, good one!

Notes:

• Countdown: 6 weeks for 3.1 release, 1 week for code freeze.
• There are 25 issues awaiting peer-review. Nice reduction from previous week, well done!
• A new version of the codechecker has been released fixing some indentation problems. Still, it seems that there are some remaining problems with multi-line statements mixed with arrays. Be warned, you'll get them in your reports!
• Days are now longer than nights here in the north hemisphere. I hate that!

Hot topics:

• MDL-53509: Problems fixed on digest mails.
• MDL-51867: Any plugin can declare its use of scales.
• MDL-52952: Prevent (incorrect) password auto-filling to happen.
• MDL-48012: Recycle bin plugin added to 3.1.
• MDL-52207: Zend framework has been completely removed from core.
• And lots more in areas like quizzes, web services, many core libraries updated, javascript, messaging...

Warm thanks:

• To All Men, from planet Earth. And specifically to those being genuine moodlers. Undoubtedly less brilliant than previous integration exposed counterparts but... still... big, big thanks too!

Nine people can’t make a baby in a month.

-- Fred Brooks

Cold numbers:

The week of March 7th 40 issues have been successfully integrated with 3 rejected and 15 delayed. That's 93% success, nice one!

The week of March 14th 29 issues have been successfully integrated with 7 rejected and 1 delayed. Nicely we were able to integrate all the delayed issues in the previous week.

Notes:

• With minor stables released last week, the next big milestone is the release of Moodle 3.1 in less than 2 months (May 9th). That's only 7 weeks away.
• 7 minus 5 = 2 weeks for major release code freeze, in 3 weeks the QA testing process will kick off and everybody will be crazily busy. So get some air, relax a bit and get ready!
• There are 58 issues awaiting peer-review. Any help is welcome there, at least to be able to verify that nothing important misses the train!
• Looking forward Moodle 3.2 requirements are now under discussion and final decision will also happen also in May (3 weeks after release). Ideas welcome!
• Big issues covering the major features planned for 3.1 (CBE, LTI sweeties , Assignment grading UI...), are slowly landing to integration. We'll try our best, aiming to generate feedback as soon as possible. Please, be patient!

Hot topics:

• MDL-53273, MDL-53247, MDL-53354 ...: Various fixes and improvements to the global search feature are happening at a quick pace.
• MDL-46891: Upgrade to Behat 3.0, yay!
• MDL-53010: Fixed problem editing roles.
• MDL-53176: Improvements to grade history report backported to stables.
• MDL-50032: External functions self-registration into services.
• And lots more in areas like web services, gradebook, access, repositories, quiz and questions... awesome work!

Warm thanks:

• To All Women, from planet Earth. And specifically to those being genuine moodlers. No justification needed, no words required. Just big, big, thanks!

In true open source development, there's lots of visibility

all the way through the development process.

-- Brian Behlendorf

Cold numbers: 

39 issues have been successfully integrated, 0 rejected and 2 delayed - 100% success, a rare event in normal weeklies!

Notes:

• We are hoping to land Behat 3 next week in MDL-46891 after a significant amount of work, we are aiming to keep backwards compatibility whilst hopefully moving Moodle towards a better BDD approach which the behat project are encouraging
• Global search has landed to Moodle and evolvments continue - See MDL-31989 for discussions on adding a local database engine and if you have a add-on it might be a great time to try and implement global search for your plugin
• Freeze fast approaches for 3.1 release, get your code finalised for review soon!

Hot topics:

• MDL-52397 - Assign feedback not sent if assign grade timemodified is set two days ago
  
• MDL-30811 - Introduce notification stack to moodle sessions
  
• MDL-50887 - New antivirus plugin type
  
• MDL-50794 - Restricting file types as attachments to a workshop
  

Warm thanks:
To Russell Smith for numerous deep dives into the MUC and finding extremely valuable improvements in performance. Many thanks!

(Editado por Eloy Lafuente (stronk7) - envío original viernes, 4 de marzo de 2016, 8:57 ), fixing links to Tracker, thanks JH

Cold numbers:

19 issues have been successfully integrated with 4 rejected - 83% success!

Notes:

• The next point release is scheduled for Monday 14th March. If you have peer reviewed issues awaiting your feedback, or other issues close to completion, you may want to spend a bit of time on them this coming week. The last integration cycle before the release starts on the 7th March and all issues must be up for integration review before 6am UTC.
  
• Are you still using the legacy log store? Support for writing to that store has now been deprecated. See MDL-45104 for more information.
• Having trouble running behat after upgrading Firefox? Please make sure that you upgrade Selenium too. Recent updates in Firefox have broken compatibility.
• Keen to see mod_feedback come out of experimental? The issues currently preventing this are being brought together in MDL-52094.
• The details of a number of new features have recently been posted in the Future major features forum. You may want to have a look and see what may be heading your way in the near future. Recent topics include Competency Based Education, User disguises, Assignment Grading UX, Displaying information to users on redirect, and Navigation overhaul.
• The much anticipated Global Search feature landed in master this week. Developer documentation will be arriving soon so keep an eye out for updates.

Hot topics:

• MDL-31989 - Global Search
  
• MDL-53081 - Review and improve the txt files in the moodle.git root
• MDL-52958 - Vimeo fullscreen
• MDL-53071 - Unable to use a space as section name to have a section without a header
• MDL-52970 - Failures with Selenium 2.50.1, FF 44.0

Warm thanks:

To Jean-Michel Védrine, who has contributed a number of plugins over his many years working with Moodle, has mentored in several Google Summer of Codes, and has been a Particularly Helpful Moodler for a number of years too. Jean-Michel has indicated that he will be ending his teacher career in the coming months. We wish him every success in the future and hope that he continues his Moodling

(Edited by Dan Poltawski to correct point release date - original submission Friday, 26 February 2016, 5:22 AM)

Cold numbers:

40 issues have been succesfully integrated and 3 rejected - 93% success!.

Notes:

• Do you use web services? Now would be a great time to test your integration against Moodle 3.1dev (master). The XMLRPC and SOAP protocols have been changed internally and would benefit from wider community testing for compatibility. The AMF protocol has been removed. (see MDL-52208 MDL-52209 MDL-52210)
• Interested in Moodle platform requirements? Discussion for raising the system requirements for Moodle 3.2 is now open. Raising the minimum version of PHP from 5.4.4 is the likely hot topic. Please comment on MDL-53019 if you want to see us change the requirements (or keep them the same). We will close the discussion for comments on 30/05/2016.

• CiBot has had an upgrade! The Moodle Code checker has been upgraded from the 1.x series to phpcs to 2.5.1+  (CONTRIB-5732). This new release allows type hinting and the ability skip warnings. Though some 

  indentation problems have been detected and the fix is  ongoing in CONTRIB-6146
• Increasing unit-test platform coverage... Investigations are ongoing in doing CI testing on Microsoft platforms using Appveyor. When combined with Travis-CI this would enable developer branches to be pre-checked against all DB engines but Oracle. See MDL-53136 for details.
• Did you miss yesterday's general developer meeting?  The recording is now available on youtube and features Competency based education, User interface & usability and Mobile and integration. See

Hot topics:

• MDL-28030 - Add config.php settings to allow plugins to rewrite output moodle_urls (eg clean / semantic urls)
• MDL-51214 - Rename the News forum to "Announcements"
• MDL-52511 - Add support for PostgreSQL 9.5
• MDL-48634 - Gradebook: Add option to rescale existing grades when changing max points
• MDL-34160 - Allow forum email subject to be customised
• MDL-52387 - LDAP support for Fine Grained Password Policies
• MDL-52414 - Allow Default Settings for Lesson Module Settings
• MDL-52990 - Templates to allow forum emails to be customised 
• MDL-51802 - Reusable element for inline name editing
• MDL-53012 - Behat: Add step to run scheduled task

Warm thanks:

To Dani Palou, Moodle Mobile team member for hard work on our mobile app and improving our core web services, thanks!

Cold numbers:

23 issues have been successfully integrated, 2 rejected and 3 delayed - 92% success.

Notes:

• You probably have seen comments from CiBoT in tracker issues, it helps us during development and during code reviews as we can easily detect issues in patches submitted for review, but until now it didn't report unit test results, now it does it through Travis CI integration. More info in MDLSITE-4414 and MDLSITE-4409
  
• Moodle 3.1 system requirements will be pushed for integration next week (actually this week because this is last week's integration exposed post) Moodle 2.7 will be required to upgrade to Moodle 3.1, if you are using a lower version you can always upgrade to 2.7 and later to 3.1. More info in MDL-51580

Hot topics:

• MDL-51306: Bulk download all files within a folder activity as ZIP file
  
• MDL-52637: Connection to SMTP mail not working with Moodle 3.0 (result of phpmailer update)
• MDL-51723: Users are unenrolled on login under LDAP auth with Active Directory
• MDL-52930: mod_forum: Fix get_unmailed_posts logic for timed posts

Warm thanks:

To Brendan Heywood, for being very active this last months and for pushing for MDL-28030. Many thanks.

Cold numbers:

15 issues have been successfully integrated, 4 rejected and 1 delayed - 78.95% success.

Notes:

• We have a new great prototype in http://prototype.moodle.net/ It is Competence Based Education. Thanks to Damyon, Fred, Université de Montréal and all the other people involved in the specs and development.
• Grunt watch is your new friend for Moodle development, you can run grunt watch from CLI and it will wait for you to save any less or JS file and autocompile CSS, YUI modules or AMD modules for you (MDL-49817) Remember to update your dependencies before running it: npm install
• New tags stuff landed in master thanks to Marina, now you can limit a tags area to standard (previously official) tags; 3.1 will be a good release for people using tags component

Hot topics:

• MDL-52715: Create a new requires class for implementing mforms in AJAX.
• MDL-51283: Rename "official" tags to "standard", allow admin to set for each tag area how to use standard tags
  
• MDL-45740: Adding new events - Choice module
• MDL-49817: Development - Watch for JS/LESS changes and compile once a file is saved
  
• MDL-52831: Moodle allows to register with empty name and then deletes the account silently
• MDL-52137: Forum digest emails contain incorrect links and duplicated information

Warm thanks:

To Dan Poltawski, for being always there, helping everywhere and everybody.

Cold numbers:

20 issues have been succesfully integrated, 7 rejected and 1 delayed - 74% success.

Notes:

• We recently passed 10,000 integrated issues since introducing the Integration process around Moodle 2.x - thanks to all the developers, integrators and testers who have put in the blood sweat and tears in our evolved process!
  
• The Moodle codechecker is being upgraded to the 2.x series over in CONTRIB-5732 - testers welcome!
• See and contribute to the recent developer discussions about updating to behat 3.x, moving js functions out of the global namespace and securely passing callbacks from client side code
• Once again apologies in the gap in these posts, we're thin on the ground and our communication suffers!

Hot topics:

• MDL-31635 - Course completion "grade" criteria assume all grades are percentages
• MDL-51702 - Cannot assign roles to blocks in indexsys.php (default Dashboard or My page)
• MDL-52780 - Better email debugging with X-Moodle-Originating-Script header
• MDL-52839 - Some scenarios failing on Selenium 2.49

Warm thanks:

To Paul Nicholls for many great plugins and contributions to Moodle core - thanks!

Cold numbers:

35 issues have been successfully integrated, 3 rejected and 4 delayed. That is 92% success, great!

Notes:

Back to a normal week of integration after last weeks' Moodle 3.0 sprint and we even managed to get the week finished off on Wednesday - thanks to all for a smooth week of integration! 

Please note that from this week, our npm configuration for installing grunt depdencies switched to use 'shrinkwrap' to lock depdencies down better (resolving various problems). Developers using very old versions of npm may need to upgrade (MDL-52250).

Hot Topics:

MDL-45712 - Add Result field to the SCORM Interactions Report

MDL-52334 - Regression in login performance with enrol_database

MDL-23128 - Prevent dvips from cluttering in the error log when using TeX filter

MDL-52402 - Problems restoring quiz attempt logs

MDL-52558 - Data generator enrol_user should let you specify role shortname

Warm Thanks:

To our entire community! Let me take this opportunity to wish Merry Christmas to you from all at Moodle HQ

 祝圣诞节快乐

Dan

Cold numbers:

19 issues have been successfully integrated, 221 QA tests passed, 18,000+ behat scenarios ran and 148,140 unit test combinations completed! Busy week!

Notes:

A weekly release has of Moodle 3.0+ has just arrived into moodle.git and the official release of Moodle 3.0.1 will arrive very shortly with PHP 7.0 supported! As is usual, Moodle administrators should use caution and testing to ensure that their installation will continue to operate on PHP7, be aware that this PHP release is very young. In particularly some known issues:

• The Microsoft SQL Server PHP drivers are not currently available for PHP7.  The mssql driver (used on non-windows platforms) is removed from PHP7 and the sqlsrv driver (windows only) is still in development. Sites which operate on SQL server or connect to it via the auth_db plugin or enrol_db plugin should not upgrade.
• The Oracle PHP driver is known to buggy and segfaults in some circumstances, we are continuing investigate and isolate this in MDL-52544 and report this to the maintainers. Again sites installed on Oracle or using auth_db/enrol_db should not upgrade.
  
• Add-on plugins may not be working on PHP7 and will need developers to test and upgrade their code to be compatible. A guide in developer docs is a starting point for developers looking to upgrade their plugins: Moodle_and_PHP7 

To Rajesh Taneja for coordinating our testing efforts at Moodle HQ, both automated and human - its often chaotic and demanding and we couldn't do it without you! 

Cold numbers:

15 issues have been successfully integrated, with 7 rejected and 8 delayed. That is 68% success, not as great as we'd like, but it was also was an intentionally small round in order to facilitate next weeks work..

Notes:

• While we've known about the benefits of Moodle on PHP 7.0 for some time, the release last week prompted more discussions and a bold plan was drawn up to move towards MOODLE_30_STABLE (and later) supported on PHP 7.0 asap. For the next week we will be concentrating solely on achieving PHP 7.0 support on Moodle 3.0 and will aim to release Moodle 3.0.1 shortly after. 
• A result of our php7 sprint is that this weeks integration round was a small one and next week we will only be integrating php 7 related changes. We thank you for your patience during this time, but it seems clear there is a lot of community appetite to get the benefits of Moodle on PHP7 sooner rather than later.

Hot Topics:

• MDL-51582 - Grunt is now used to compile less into CSS
  
• MDL-52209 - New XML-RPC web service implementation
• MDL-51483 - Inserting media in assignment via "online text" causes page to cease loading
• MDL-52304 - Shockwave Flash media player fullscreen doesn't work
  

Warm Thanks:

To Tony Levi for his pioneering work on php7 support and Marina Glancy for working hard to push it through to achieve this in the coming days.

Cold numbers:

36 issues have been successfully integrated with 13 rejected and 4 delayed. That's 73% success, far from perfect, but expected after the long frozen period, with lots of issues being (always controversial) new features.

Notes:

• We are back to normal integration, with all the held issues over the last weeks being processed as quickly as possible. Special thanks to Andrew, David, Dan and Rajesh (iTeam) for the extra effort this week. Luckily in only happens twice every year!
• There are 43 issues awaiting peer-review. We should be able to reduce it over the next weeks. Can you imagine a zero-pending Xmas present?
• Voting is open about Moodle 3.1 requirements. It's now or never. Note that, immediately after that one is decided, the corresponding issue for Moodle 3.2 will be created and all remaining details will be moved there, with (near) six months to discuss about it.
• We are moving, for 29_STABLE and up, from recess to grunt to compile less style-sheets. So, once it's landed... everybody should be using it for submitted patches. All checks (CiBoT, post-commit jobs...) will, automatically, start to use it too.
• Open for discussion, MDLSITE-2132 and linked issues to complete the wrapping rules once and forever.
• The Prepare Moodle for PHP7 Epic is advancing pretty well (PHP 7.0.0 has been just released!), aiming to get it completed asap.

Hot topics:

• MDL-52260: Problem editing profile having locked profile fields.
• MDL-44598: List students in assignment "grant extension" page.
• MDL-50661: Smaller logo to be shown (opt-in) in all pages.
• MDL-51700: Better cleaning of AJAX returned values from external functions.
• MDL-26935: New capability to control role renaming in courses.
• And lots more in areas like web services, acceptance tests, usability, plagiarism, files API...

Warm thanks:

• To CiBoT, from the Public Moodle CI Server, for helping us everywhere, anytime. Tirelessly and efficiently performing all those loved (hated anyone?) reviews and also supporting a good number of automations in the Tracker. Thanks!

Drinking a cup of coffee with your eyes closed

isn't a sophisticated task for a person,

but it's hard for a robot.

-- Vijay Kumar

Edited: To fix some incorrect links, thanks Marcus for warning me!

Cold numbers:

29 issues have been integrated with 6 rejected and 1 delayed, 83% success.

Notes:

• This has been the last on-sync week. We have been keeping 3.0 and master (almost) exactly the same; more info in https://docs.moodle.org/dev/Integration_Review#On-sync_period
  
• On-sync period is now over and we will start processing all issues that were held since Moodle 3.0 code freeze, new features will start landing in master branch (3.1dev) along the next week. Thanks for your patience.
  
• Moodle 3.1 requirements should be decided by 30 Nov (next Monday) now is a good moment to comment: MDL-51580
  

Hot topics:

• MDL-52291: Table "qtype_multichoice_options" does not exist!!! Upgrading from 2.4.10 to 3.0
  
• MDL-52162: Upgrade to 3.0 through the browser fails: class question_graded_automatically not found
  
• MDL-52203: Error upgrading multianswer question to 3.0
  
• MDL-52214: is_web_crawler deprecated function not pointing correctly to the core_useragent alternative
  
• MDL-44330: Assignment opens up the "wrong" student grading form
  
• MDL-37834: Can't use Excel to edit the assignment Offline grading worksheet
  
• MDL-43069: "Submission comments" fail to expand if you hide the "file submissions" column
  

Warm thanks:

To Howard Miller, a Moodle legend, super long-time particularly helpful Moodler, with over 12000 forum posts and Moodle in English forum moderator. Thank you very much!

83 issues have been integrated with 10 rejected - 89.25% success.

Notes:

• After 4 Release Candidates Moodle 3.0 has been released, congratulations and thanks to everyone that contributed reporting, triaging, developing, reviewing and testing issues. Moodle 3.1 planning already started in Moodle HQ
• In integration we start on-sync period this week, improvements and new features for Moodle 3.1 are held until this period is over. Thanks for your patience
• According to https://docs.moodle.org/dev/Release_process#3_weeks_after in 2 weeks we should decide Moodle 3.1 requirements, you can comment on MDL-51580
• We published here the results of all Moodle 3.0rc3 unit tests (around 65000 assertions) and acceptance tests (around 40000 steps) in all supported browsers and operative systems

Hot topics: 

• MDL-51880 - Minor issues with Atto's table setting
  
• MDL-40245 - Creating the zip file when downloading all assignment submissions fails due to 30 second execution time out. 
  
• MDL-51552 - Single View" bulk insert for empty grades overwrites non-empty grades
  
• MDL-49473 - Export Logs does not contain year
  
• MDL-51482 - Unnecessary updates of lastinvalidation cache entries
  
• MDL-51314 - Performance problem on "view/grade all submissions" when groups enabled
  
• MDL-51922 - Add memcached + mongo testing to travis
  
• Many other fixes in atto editor, assignment module, themes, gradebook...
  

Warm thanks:

Germán Valero for his continuous support with languages and Moodle Docs, specially the Spanish ones.

Cold numbers:

75 issues have been succesfully integrated, with 15 rejected  - 83% success.

Notes:

• Today we released Moodle 3.0beta, marking a point where we are feature complete for the upcoming release. Work continues to test and fix any outstanding issues before the final release date. Please help us make the most stable release yet by testing on a copy of your production data.
  
• A number of issues which are of relevance to developers landed recently:
• Travis config which can be enabled on developer clones of moodle.git to facilitate pre-checking in various environments. See https://docs.moodle.org/dev/Travis_Integration
• Backup and restore for new-style events is now supported MDL-46455
  
• Multiple improvements to the plugins installer including dependency installation mean that this is a great time to get your plugin dependencies configured in version.php MDL-49329

Hot topics:

• MDL-45515 - Table editing features missing in Atto editor
  
• MDL-46455 - Backup and restore of new events
  
• MDL-38214 - Add MCS, MCVS, MCHS Cloze subquestion types
  
• MDL-49682 - Forum email template is not editable
  
• MDL-30674 - Set guest access key from enrolment methods page
  
• MDL-40836 - File resource: Option to display uploaded date
  
• MDL-49329 - Plugins installation improvements
  

Warm thanks:

To Ryan Wyllie - for getting stuck in here, there and everywhere and making Moodle better - thanks!

Cold numbers:

55 issues have been succesfully integrated, with 17 rejected  - 76% success.

Notes:

As planned, we are now frozen from new features landing until development opens for Moodle 3.1 (planned 7th December 2015). Now we focus on polishing Moodle 3.0 for release. It seems a long way a way when you look at it from today but it soon passes. This period usually is one of the busiest of the cycle and helps us ready our documentation, testing and so on. Interesting previous discussion on this topic: Do you find the code freeze/on-sync period problematic?

Please feel free to continue to submit your new features and improvements for integration during this time - your issue will be tagged as held but will not be forgotten about. (And of course, some things may be allowed to break freeze in exceptional circumstances). 

Hot topics:

• The majority of third party libraries included in Moodle got a bump this week
• MDL-49028 - wiki reset now allows pages to be deleted
• MDL-41042 - Course contacts shown in course listings no longer take time to update
• MDL-44707 - When customizing my homepage, block files are now copied over

Warm thanks:

Stasia Telford - one of the many behind the scenes team here at Moodle HQ working hard to make sure that things run smoothly and that we can focus on improving Moodle - thanks!

cheers,

Dan

Cold numbers:

28 issues have been succesfully integrated, with 8 rejected and 5 delayed - 75% success.

Notes:

On Monday we begin code freeze for Moodle 3.0, so if you want your New feature or improvement to make it into 3.0, get your issue peer reviewed and submitted to integration quickly, the must be 'Waiting for Integration' before Monday morning (UTC).

With code freeze comes the change to our integration schedule, see the documentation on the continuous period to understand what happens in the next month. The key thing is that we will be aiming to release more frequently and prioritise issues affects Moodle 3.0 release.

Note that normal bug fixes can continue to land during the freeze period, its just new features and improvements which are held.

Hot topics:

MDL-50658 - Support for LTI Memberships service

MDL-48947 - Section actions put into menu like activities

MDL-51498 - Critical performance issue in gradebook fixed

MDL-9070 - Forum timed posts: display period now displayed 

MDL-51390 - Badges can once again be added to mozilla backpack

Warm thanks:

To Mark Nielsen - a veteran of the Moodle community, for many bug fixes, looking after mod_lesson for a while and all your contributions over the years - thanks!

beijos,

Dan

Cold numbers:

29 issues have been successfully integrated with 3 rejected and 4 delayed. That's 91% success, good one!

Notes:

• There are 23 issues awaiting peer-review.
• We are just one week away from Moodle 3.0 code freeze, when normal integration cycles do change noticeably and two before QA's kick off!
• The OU's drag and drop question types did land this week to Moodle. Congratulations to everybody that helped building, reviewing, reporting, suggesting... to make those questions better and better along the years.
• Backup & restore of new log stores seem to be be ready for integration. Great news! And thanks for all the hard work, iterations… till getting it done! Any help testing that stuff will be really welcome!

Hot topics:

• MDL-50917: Managers can access to user preferences.
• MDL-50332: Clarify message when enrollment instances do reach their max number of users.
• MDL-51190: Improve MS Edge support when embedding PDF documents.
• MDL-51431: Fix enrollments start date using the "flatfile" plugin.
• And many more in areas like web services, javascript, database activity, workshop...

Warm thanks:

• To Tim Hunt, from the Open University, UK., for helping people everywhere, all the time - forums on moodle.org, writing docs, and even helping someone to contribute a translation. Development aside, you know. Googolplexian thanks!

[...] Work transforms talent into genius.

-- Anna Pavlova

Cold numbers:

46 issues have been successfully integrated with 2 rejected and 2 delayed. That's 96% success, wowowow!

Notes:

• It seems that this week we were finally able to catch up with delayed issues from last weeks, great work Andrew and David.
• There are 32 issues awaiting peer-review, same than 1 week ago... balanced, yes... but would be so great to get the list reduced before freeze... come on!
• We are just two weeks away from Moodle 3.0 code freeze!
• There are some important issues that we should be resolving ASAP:
  • MDL-49398: Accesslib role definitions cached. Lacking some serious big testing... hope it does not end missing the train for 3.0.
  • MDL-47494: New drag and drop question types from the OU, hopefully landing this week.
  • MDL-50182: About to push Moodle 3.0 environmental requirements to all supported branches.
• HEADS UP about the progression in the new performance "toolkit" (MDL-50862) being revamped, with Behat used as easy-source for both:
  • MDL-50863: A Behat-based new generator.
  • MDL-50864: A Behat to Jmeter's JMX converter tool.

Great work, Rajesh, keep the ball rolling! Comments are welcome.

Hot topics:

• MDL-30157: Allow manual enrolments to begin "now" added.
• MDL-51213: About to improve external_format_text|string() functions and clarify where they are allowed to be used.
• MDL-50766: Fix grunt behavior in some situations.
• MDL-51191: Improved upgrade to 2.8 caused by slow queries in assignments.
• And many more in areas like web services, libraries, gradebook, administration...

Warm thanks:

• To David Mudrák, from Moodle HQ, for his amazing work encouraging plugin developers, improving AMOS, the workshop module, and everything else, practically since Moodle's inception, oh man, no words!

Admiration and familiarity

are [ not always ] strangers.

-- George Sand (partially contradicted by me).

Cold numbers:

27 issues have been successfully integrated with 4 rejected and 12 delayed. That's 87% success, great!

Notes:

• There was a (noticeable) number of delayed issues, some of them because interdependencies, ongoing discussions and, also, lack or time caused by the extra attention needed to prepare the September 14th releases. This week we'll try hard to reduce that list. Thanks everybody for your collaboration and patience!
• There are 32 issues awaiting peer-review, good reduction from last month's 52. Does a dozen sound like something achievable? Go, go, go!
• We are just three weeks away from Moodle 3.0 code freeze!
• A growing number of reopened issues, apparently without much activity has been detected. Maybe a good moment to review those having you with a role in them.

Hot topics:

• MDL-51357: Edit role page broken.
• MDL-34938: Enrolment expiration date now flows to metacourse parents.
• MDL-42670: Recent activity block to observe assignment blind marking.
• MDL-51245: SQL*Server drivers now do inform about incorrect transaction-settings in the database.
• MDL-50323: Better styling of unordered lists in course sections.
• And many more in areas like themes, quiz, groups, forum, course completion, chat...

Warm thanks:

• To Andrew Hancox, for his recent collaboration in various issues in the Tracker, many thanks!

Secrets are generally terrible. Beauty is

not hidden–only ugliness and deformity.

-- L.M. Montgomery

Cold numbers:

31 issues have been successfully integrated, with 12 rejected and 4 delayed - 72% success. 

Notes:

• We have been quite poor at delivering these integration updates over the last few months. It is not intentional, just all hands busy with tasks and easily forgetting. We are keen to turn that around, sorry for the interruption.
• Some recent discussions have been taking place stemming from increasing use of the new webservice/templating/js features, particularly the integration between webservices and filtering - see MDL-51213, MDL-50360 and MDL-50291
• This week was a big week on integration and we didn't get through all the issues, we thank developers and testers for their patience with our backlog!

Hot topics:

To Tony Butler for all the plugins and patches, the entire Moodle community thanks you for your work!

Maraming salamat.

Dan

Cold numbers:

24 issues have been successfully integrated with 6 rejected and 3 delayed. That's 80% success, not bad.

Notes:

• Waiting since more than 1 month ago, this week MDL-49398 should be, finally, evaluated, grrr. Sorry for the long holding period, Toni!
• There are 52 issues awaiting peer-review, it's me or this is getting bigger and bigger?
• Some good progression with pending regressions is happening, still we need to evaluate/fix/kill all them.
• We are just four weeks away from next minor releases, time to organize and fix the goals for them.

Hot topics:

• MDL-46860: File picker breaking within Atto's popup.
• MDL-51050: Stop (idiot?) browsers from populating every password field with username & password.
• MDL-50446: Problems with main-menu block resources displayed in popup/new window.
• MDL-50062: Fixed the handling of extra credit when moving between different aggregation methods in categories.
• MDL-50062: Database authentication against SQL*Server databases (via ODBC) now working.
• And many more in areas like gradebook, external tools (LTI consumer), blocks, behat tests...

Warm thanks:

• To Tomasz Muras, from Enovation Solutions, for his help both reporting and fixing multiple issues in the Tracker, much appreciated, big thanks!

Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of

all obstacles, discouragements, and impossibilities: It is this,

that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.

--Thomas Carlyle

Cold numbers:

12 issues have been successfully integrated, with 1 rejected and 1 delayed.

Notes:

• The iTeam this week continued some internal discussions about evolution of the Moodle performance tool to provide the goals of being more effective at detecting regressions, provide over time graphing and be able to more effectively help us with integration. More info about details from the discussion coming soon.
• Related to that, MDL-49398 continues to be analysed - the patch provides big benefits on first login performance, but at some small tradeoff of each request. Some real life dataset testing of that issue would be good, if you can help
• Our peer review queue continues to be quite large, while we've had a few quiet weeks on integration issues - lets all try and help tip that balance to keep the integration queues primed

Warm thanks:

• To Daniel Thies for much collaboration, plugins and improvements to Atto - thanks!

Cold numbers:

8 issues have been successfully integrated with 0 rejected and 1 delayed. Perfect score but because of MDL-49398 that we had to delay one more time, grrr.

Notes:

• This week we all need to put an eye on MDL-49398, looking to it from all POVs: coding, behavior and performance must be triple checked. It's hyper-core stuff and needs special attention from everybody.
• There are 47 issues awaiting peer-review, let's try to reduce the list.
• Regressions matter.
• Pending backport requests too.

Hot topics:

• MDL-50049: Lot's of old functions have been finally deprecated for Moodle 3.0. While many of them were already deprecated since ages ago (and emitting friendly debugging messages), now they are 100% out and will lead to exception/error. Be warned.
• MDL-48074: "Not in any group" option added to enrollment filters.
• MDL-49185: About to apply implied capabilities to LTI custom parameters (towards LTI 2.0 certification).
• MDL-50653: Tiny HTML validation issue that caused a more interesting MDLSITE-4117 to be created.
• And many more (4!) in areas like html editor, forums, admin...

Warm thanks:

• To Joseph Inhofer, for all his activity and collaboration in the Tracker, always looking for better solutions, many thanks!

I love people where, at the end of the day,

they'll pick up a paintbrush and paint clouds.

They can physically make things.

-- Peter Capaldi

Cold numbers:

17 issues have been successfully integrated with 4 rejected and 2 delayed. That is 80.95% success, slightly below average.

Notes:

• Next Monday Moodle 2.7.9, 2.8.6 and 2.9.1 will be released. Note it's 1-week earlier than usual (2nd Monday of July). It's for a good reason...
• Next week it is the MoodleMoot Australia 2015, hosted, first time, by Moodle HQ @ Monash University, Clayton. Cool and busy days around the corner!
• There are 37 issues awaiting peer-review, any help there is really welcome.
• Regressions continue being hight priority for next releases in September.

Hot topics:

• MDL-48239: Various problems with formula calculations have been fixed.
• MDL-50675: Wikimedia repository thumbnails now properly displayed.
• MDL-50675: Cleanup of unused questions and question categories on activity deletion.
• MDL-33765: Glossary filter recursiveness and display fixes.
• And many more in areas like themes, scorm, languages, gradebook...

Warm thanks:

• To Tyler Bannister, from Remote Learner, Canada, for his collaboration with various complex issues within Moodle and, very specially, for his patience with us, integrators. Many thanks!

They say happiness is just around the corner,

too bad the world is round.

--Unknown

Cold numbers

19 issues have been successfully integrated during this 2015-06-25 cycle, with 9 rejected; no delayed issue this cycle. That is 67.86% success.

Notes

• MDL-50453 is the first PHP7-related issue. PHP 7 is not yet released, but we are looking forward to it. MDL-50565 epic has been created to ensure Moodle will be ready.
  
• Work in gradebook is advancing, there are many fixed issues and still some work in progress; more info in https://docs.moodle.org/29/en/Gradebook_calculations_changes and https://docs.moodle.org/29/en/Grades_min_max
  
• 36 issues waiting for peer review, some of them waiting for a long time. Thanks for all the contributions and apologies if your patches are still waiting for feedback
  

Hot topics

• MDL-49257: Adjusting weights when extra credit item is present causes unexpected behavior
  
• MDL-50089: Gradebook export does not respect aggregate only non-empty grades for percentage and letter
  
• MDL-50491: New format_text option to exclude particular filters
  
• MDL-50283: Improve Rubric interface to include the ability to duplicate rows.
  
• MDL-50631: Display Moodle ASCII logo in CLI installer
  
• And other stuff in components like gradebook, messages, authentication...

These last weeks some other significant bug fixes and improvements were integrated:

• MDL-48618: Unexpected changes on grades after upgrade to Moodle 2.8
  
• MDL-50089: Gradebook export does not respect aggregate only non-empty grades for percentage and letter
  
• MDL-42192: Capabilities list caching
  
• MDL-49882: Essay questions are not imported into the lesson Module
  
• MDL-50176: Youtube repository no longer working
  
• And many other issues fixing or improving gradebook, administration, backup, glossary and other components
  

Warm thanks

To all the people recently and currently involved in fixing gradebook issues: Eric Merrill, Frédéric Massart, Damyon Wiese, Marina Glancy, Adrian Greeve, Martin Langhoff, Bob Puffer, Steve Miley, Helen Foster, the iTeam and all the other people that somehow contributed to the discussions and fixes.

Cold numbers:

23 issues have been successfully integrated with 3 rejected and 2 delayed. That is 88.46% success, well done!

Notes:

• This is the 3rd "on-sync" week. The next integration cycle we will start processing all integration_held issues (improvements most of them).
  
• 28 issues are waiting for peer review, it is less than last week but still more than we would like.
  

Hot topics:

• MDL-50285: Grade categories calculate wrong with suspended users (Student's view)
  
• MDL-50373: Cloze questions not properly displayed in random quiz
  
• MDL-49560: SOAP web service does not work with token
  
• MDL-48664: Messaging contacts paging bar goes too wide
  
• MDL-40592: Missing user default image/picture in assignment grading page
  
• MDL-50289: Notes link on profile page despite notes being disabled
  
• And many other fixes in web services, messaging, cohorts...
  

Warm thanks:

* To Martin Mastny, for his contributions during these period in HQ and for next Friday beers

Cold numbers:

20 issues have been successfully integrated with 3 rejected and 2 delayed. That is 86.96% success, well done!

Notes:

• 2nd (out of 3) "on-sync" week. One more week and we'll start processing all the "integration_held" issues.
• While we don't usually release weeklies for security-only supported branches, this week we decided to roll a 2.7.8+ update, including a couple of bug fixes of general interest.
• There are 34 issues awaiting peer-review, any help there is really welcome.
• Regressions continue being priority #1.

Hot topics:

• MDL-50277: Make components used by Grunt fixed per branch, so all developers will get constant (and verifiable ) results.
• MDL-50177: Problems upgrading assignments.
• MDL-49764: Improved gradebook floating cells under some browsers.
• MDL-49764: Problems with behat runs caused by some libxml versions.
• MDL-50254: Mustache namespace aliasing problem
• And many more in areas like quizzes, gradebook, questions, enrolments, user management...

Warm thanks:

• To Jean-Philippe Gaudreau, for his continuous help in many areas of Moodle along the last months. Very much appreciated!

Whenever you find yourself

on the side of the majority,

it is time to pause and reflect.

-- Mark Twain

Cold numbers:

5 issues have been successfully integrated with 2 rejected and 0 delayed. That is 71.43% success, I'd say it's a really bad outcome for 3.0 first commits, eh!

Notes:

• The numbers above aren't representative enough, the release week uses to be a "light" one (integration-wise), where only a few issues are picked, so don't get worried at all.
• Last week we released 2.9, together with a good number of minor releases.
• For 3 weeks, we'll be under the called "on-sync" period where we keep the new MOODLE_29_STABLE branch 99.99% the same than master, to make it easier to introduce any urgent fix (specially upgrade steps) in a "common" way. That means that we are accumulating "integration_held" issues for 2 more weeks and only when the on-sync period is over we'll proceed to integrate them.
• There are 36 issues awaiting peer-review, let's try to reduce them.
• From now to July 6th, apart from the usual planning, sharing and discussing stages of new developments, we all should be paying special attention to every regression found with the new versions, fixing them ASAP.

Hot topics:

• The world is changing really quickly. Impossible to take a photo!
• Next Moodle major release will be 3.0, yay, excited? Nah, it's just 2.9 + 0.1 = 3.0
• MDL-50182 - About Moodle 3.0 requirements. Let's try to define them earlier than we did for 2.9 (issue closed on release, ).

Warm thanks:

• To your parents. To the parents of everybody that "produced" people like you. Given how brilliant, amazing, unique you are... I cannot but venerate your parents, kudos to all them. And congratulations to you!

We all parent the best we can.

Being human, we're ambivalent.

We want perfection for our babies,

but we also need sleep!

-- Erica Jong

Cold numbers:

54 issues have been successfully integrated with 8 rejected and 5 delayed. That is 87.10% success, not bad at all!

Notes:

• There are 35 issues awaiting peer-review, freeze is here... not good, not good.
• While you read this, freeze is happening. For the coming weeks the integration process changes noticeably.
• Because of a chained problem, CiBoT results for issues under this week integration, became broken. Sorry for the problems. It has been solved minutes ago and the checks re-executed for all the issues.

Hot topics:

• MDL-49513: New behat step to quickly configure admin settings.
• MDL-44874: $CFG->tempdir now considered shared (heads up, clusters, for 2.9 and up), and there is a new way to handle local, per-request temp directories.
• MDL-23296: Searches in the file picker.
• MDL-6340: Quiz retakes now do try harder to avoid using already seen questions.
• MDL-49514: Many libraries upgraded for Moodle 2.9.
• And lots more in areas like web services, backup & restore, lesson, html editor, acceptance tests, quizzes...

Warm thanks:

• To Zac Durber, from Moodle HQ. Quick learner, keen professional and avid moodler. That mix only can be a win. Thanks!

Preparing to fight wild fires is only part of the solution,

we must be more pro-active and prevent the fires before they start,

or reduce their intensity by removing forest waste and fuel build up.

--- Rick Renzi

Cold numbers:

39 issues have been successfully integrated with 7 rejected and 0 delayed. That is 84.78% success, not bad at all!

Notes:

• There are 32 issues awaiting peer-review, that's only 5 down from last week. And freeze is coming!
• There are only 2 remaining opportunities of getting your improvements and new features added to Moodle 2.9 (next and next-next weeks), after that, we'll be only accepting bug fixes until release, with everything else held, be warned.
• Since some days ago we are running acceptance tests (Behat) in parallel mode in our testing infrastructure. That's a huge step (thanks Rajesh!) from previous non-parallel runs and, once fully stabilized, sets the base for future improvements, stay tuned.
• We are actively discussing alternative ways to handle security issues internally, aiming to better handling of them (integration and testing) within our processes and also better/on time notifications to the community. Still considering different options and their impact.

Hot topics:

• MDL-47002, MDL-47003...: Better handling of imported content in atto html editor.
• MDL-28526: Glossary to preserve attachments and images over export/import operations.
• MDL-49543: Badges criteria now support a custom description field.
• MDL-45619: To be able to uninstall repositories.
• And lots more in areas like web services, quizzes, ajax, themes, ims-cp resources...

Warm thanks:

• To Eric Merrill, from Oakland University. For all his awesome contributions in business-critical areas like caching stores, plugins, html editors... and because I really like that avatar, man. Many thanks!

Cold numbers:

30 issues have been successfully integrated with 5 rejected and 0 delayed. That is 85.71% success, good one!

Notes:

• There are 37 issues awaiting peer-review, and 37/3.7=3+7, come on!
• Some interesting dates:
  • 2 weeks for code freeze.
  • 3 weeks for QA.
  • 7 weeks for 2.9 release.
• Funny weeks coming, make a pause and get impulse!

Hot topics:

• MDL-44367: Improve filter_data for large sites.
• MDL-40990: Question inter-dependencies.
• MDL-49152: Templates for renderers.
• MDL-49163: Unified Ajax handler.
• And lots more in areas like lesson, acceptance tests, messages, blocks...

Warm thanks:

• To Dan Poltawski, from Moodle HQ. All purpose moodler ("all terrain" I'd say in Spanish, literally, lol), because there are only 52 weeks in a year and I don't want 2015 to end without saying big thanks for your contributions and attitude. Everywhere. Always. (hats off, a pure pleasure to work with you!)

30 issues have been integrated with 4 rejected, no issues have been delayed this cycle. It is a 88.24% success.

Notes:

• Moodle will be again part of Google Summer of Code, it is a nice way to learn and contribute while you get paid: https://docs.moodle.org/dev/Applying_to_work_with_Moodle_for_GSOC
  
• 3 weeks for the Moodle 2.9 code freeze, warm up your pending major improvements
  
• Today (2015-03-13) we are doing some sensitive changes in our internal continuous integration servers, hopefully this will be the last thing you will hear about this
  
  

Hot topics:

• MDL-46064: Drop support for MyISAM for 2.9
  
• MDL-5583: allow teachers to specify certain fields in database activity as required
  
• MDL-39752: Behat tests runs in parallel
  
• MDL-49298: Make tgz backups standard
  
• And many other bug fixes and improvements in different areas: gradebook, calendar, lesson, web services, questions, ratings... 
  
  

Warm thanks:

To Stephen Bourget for his bug fixes, improvements and his dog picture. Thank you very much and please continue contributing to a better Moodle.

Cold numbers:

40 issues have been successfully integrated with 4 rejected and 2 delayed. That is 91.91% success, nice one!

Notes:

• With the minor releases happening on Monday 9th, the final countdown to Moodle 2.9 has started. Check the dates!
• After a number of iterations, it seems that Behat parallel execution is ready for integration. Results are promising and it should be able to help solving some limits and problems that we are facing with acceptance testing since some time ago. More about that coming soon.

Hot topics:

• MDL-49379: Recent regression causing web services not being editable.
• MDL-47911: Improvement to gradebook operations.
• MDL-23273: Concurrency problem with choice limited responses.
• MDL-49259: Improved handling of Japanese filenames in zip files.
• And lots more in areas like lesson, blocks, web services, acceptance tests, administration...

Warm thanks:

• To Dave Cooper, from Moodle HQ. With two words, "well done!"

[*] Title rationale:

Sometimes it pays to stay in bed on Monday,
rather than spending the rest of the week
debugging Monday's code.
-- Christopher Thompson

Cold numbers

26 issues have been successfully integrated with 4 rejected and 3 delayed - 86% success.

Notes:

• This week saw the integration of the first stage the new javascript infrastructure we now have support to load AMD modules with RequireJS - see MDL-49046
  
• Next week we will be integrating for the upcoming point releases - we prepared
• Do you know that future development projects and specifications are planned to be worked on at the future Moodle Moots in the UK/Ireland (#mootieuk15) , Australia (#mootau15) and USA (#mootus15) - there should be attendees from Moodle HQ at each - see https://moodlemoot.org for more details

Hot topics

• MDL-35392 - Feedback from module assign is not shown in the gradebook
  
• MDL-31578 - Shibboleth attribute mappings for all Moodle fields (inclusive custom attributes)
  
• MDL-18177 - Add option to choose whether groups and/or groupings are included in a back up
  
• MDL-49046 - RequireJS AMD Javascript loader
  

Warm thanks

To Tony Levi for collaboration and research into Moodle issues - especially identifying performance issues. Thanks!

cheers,

Dan

Cold numbers: 41 issues have been successfully integrated with 4 rejected, that is a yummy 91.11% success.

Notes:

• After many years being marked as deprecated, we proceed with the first stage deprecation of a bunch of web services functions (MDL-43535) This is important for most of the Moodle mobile app customizations, as until 1.11 the official Moodle mobile app has been using these web services (MOBILE-855) It is a good moment to update your mobile app customizations on top of 1.11, you still have time before the final deprecation.
  
• More than 7 years and 81 votes passed since MDL-10405 was created, now we can finally delete course sections (Moodle 2.9 onwards) Don't worry, there is a confirmation step ;)
  
• Many accessibility improvements are landing these last weeks (Only this week MDL-36009, MDL-49052, MDL-49003 and MDL-37477)

Hot topics:

• MDL-10405 - Delete sections
  
• MDL-48803 - Lesson should support groups
• MDL-48679 - When Grade publishing is enabled the Grade Export URL does not appear
  
• MDL-36009 - Gradebook table uses complex tables that are not accessible
  
• MDL-43535 - Remove deprecated web services functions
  
• MDL-48038 - tag_cron() does not scale
  

Warm thanks:

To Adam Olley, for all his contributions over the years.

Cold numbers

40 issues have been integrated with 7 rejected and 2 delayed - thats 85% success. Not bad!

Notes:

• If you've not yet read and commented on the proposed Javascript future and Element library now is the time! The period for comments on the specifications is almost over and soon steps will be made towards implementing a mustache, grunt, requirejs & jquery future. 
• Interested in Mobile development? The Moodle Mobile team are currently evaluating a migration to the ionic framework - see MOBILE-778 and http://fmcorz.github.io/moodle-mobile-ionic-prototype/www/
• Plugin developers might be interested to see the new approval queue: https://moodle.org/plugins/queue.php

Hot topics:

Warm thanks:

To Matt Petro for fixes and improvements to Moodle - your contribution is greatly appreciated!

Cold numbers:

33 issues have been successfully integrated with 3 rejected and 2 delayed. That is 91.67% success, wow!

Notes:

• Along the next week, this will be decided once and forever:
  • MDL-39079: Use of the HTML “title” attribute.
• There are 28 issues awaiting peer-review, the number of days February has, come on!
• Recently we have detected some, already resolved, issues with the "dev_docs_required" still on them. It would be great if you can review your own ones, completing the documentation and deleting the label once done.

Hot topics:

• MDL-43421: Fixed race condition updating user access times.
• MDL-48542: Prevent custom menu items to break site display.
• MDL-48383: Disabled scheduled tasks and disabled plugins.
• MDL-48711: Incorrect display of extra credit marks.
• And lots more in areas like forums, administration, web services, quizzes, html editor…

Warm thanks:

• To Patrick Pollet, who passed away recently, for his contributions to the Moodle community as a developer and particularly helpful Moodler.

Cold numbers:

This week 33 issues have been successfully integrated with 4 rejected and 0 delayed. That is 89.19% succcess.

Last week 28 issues were successfully integrated with 4 rejected and 1 delayed. That is 87.50% success.

Notes:

• There was a General developer meeting during the week (January 20th) - if you missed out, you can
  on YouTube.
• Our latest course, Teaching with Moodle: An introduction started on 11th January 2015. Suitable for anyone who wants to teach using Moodle, whether that's in a school, university, company, or elsewhere, it's not too late to join. The course is set to end on February 8th.

Hot topics:

• MDL-348: Printer friendly styles for quiz
• MDL-47166: Invert the indent/outdent buttons in Atto
• MDL-48493: Automatically detect the plugin type when installing plugins from zip
• MDL-48761: Add a behat step to pause execution for debugging
• And numerous other issues in database, Groups, Quiz, Core, and elsewhere.

Warm thanks:

• To Vadim Dvorovenko for his recent contributions to Moodle, and for finding and fixing a range of fun and exciting bugs.

Thanking you all for your continued contributions - please keep them up!

Andrew

(Edited by Helen Foster to add a profile link - original submission Friday, 23 January 2015, 4:26 AM)

Cold numbers:

50 issues have been successfully integrated with 5 rejected and 2 delayed. That is 90.91% success, super!

Notes:

• Last call about some policy issues (be warned):

  • MDL-39079: Use of the HTML “title” attribute.
  • MDL-48181: "regression" labels and/or versions and their use and ttl.
  • MDL-48145: 2.9 future requirements.

• On Monday (January 12th) new minor stable versions will be released. That includes Moodle 2.6.7, 2.7.4 and 2.8.2.

• Anybody able to come with a proposal for MDLSITE-3691? It would be great to have a schema about how to organize all that information into a (more) useful way.

• There are 30 issues awaiting peer-review, that’s only five times six, let’s kill them!

• Next developer meeting is around the corner (January 20th). Feel free to propose / share / participate with anything of interest. And, of course, you’re welcome to attend.

Hot topics:

• MDL-48644: Restore of legacy logs time and IP.
• MDL-48748: Various fixes to the English lang pack.
• MDL-40097: Course completion criteria leading to error.
• And lots more in areas like lesson, messages, assignment, gradebook, deprecations…

Warm thanks:

• To Colin Chambers for his amazing collaboration finding bugs, proposing fixes and all the hard work since the world is round.

Ciao all, stronk7 

Cold numbers:

26 issues have been successfully integrated with  6 rejected and 11 delayed. Thats 81% success.

Notes:

• As noted last week, we had a shorter week of integration and testing this week in order to facilitate a release today as planned. Great job everyone for managing to achieve this with only 11 issues delayed
• Our next full Integration round will start on 5th January 2015 and will be the last week to include changes for our scheduled minor releases (2.8.2, 2.7.4 and 2.6.7).
• On 11th of January 2015, Moodle HQ will start our next course at https://learn.moodle.net: "Teaching with Moodle: An introduction is for anybody who wants to use the Moodle learning platform for teaching, whether it be in a school, a university, a company or just personal interest" Developers might be interested to get more experience of Moodle as a teacher and this is a great opportunity to do this!

Hot topics:

To the 186 contributors who have added 5807 commits to Moodle in 2014:

~/git/moodle (master) $ git log --format=%an --since=1/Jan/2014 | sort | uniq | perl -pe 's/\n/, / unless eof'
AMOS bot, Aaron Barnes, Aaron Wells, Adam Olley, Adrian Fish, Adrian Greeve, Albert Gasset, Alfonso Roman, Amanda Doughty, Andrea Bicciolo, Andreas Grabs, Andrew Davis, Andrew Nicols, Andrew Robert Nicols, Andrew Schmadel, Ankit Agarwal, Aparup Banerjee, Ashley Holman, Avi Levy, BKelada, Barbara Ramiro, Bas Brands, Ben Kelada, Brent Boghosian, Brian Barnes, Brian King, Charles Fulton, Ciaran Irvine, Colin Chambers, Corey Wallis, Damien Bezborodov, Damyon Wiese, Dan Bennett, Dan Marsden, Dan Poltawski, Daniel Kosinski, Daniel Neis, Daniel Neis Araujo, Daniel Thies, Darko Miletic, Dave Cooper, David Balch, David Curry, David Ligne, David Monllao, David Mudrák, David Scotson, Davo Smith, Didier Raboud, Dmitry Nefedov, Eloy Lafuente (stronk7), Eric Merrill, Eugene Venter, Faisal Kaleem, Fred Woolard, Frederic Massart, Gareth J Barnard, Gilles-Philippe Leblanc, Gordon Bateson, Graham Bowman, Gregory Faller, Heiko Schach, Helen Foster, Henning Bostelmann, Huy Hoang, Iñaki Arenaza, James Ballard, James Henestofel, James McLean, James McQuillan, James Pratt, Jason, Jason Fowler, Jayesh Anandani, Jean-Michel Vedrine, Jean-Philippe Gaudreau, Jenny Gray, Jerome Mouneyrac, Jetha Chan, Jim Thorpe, John Okely, Jon Marthaler, Jonathan Champ, Jonathan Harker, Jonathon Fowler, Joseph Rezeau, Josh Marshall, Joshua Johnston, Juan Leyva, Julien Boulen, Justin Filip, Kevin Wiliarty, Kordan, Krister, Krister Viirsaar, Kyle Temkin, Logan Reynolds, Luke Tucker, M Kassaei, Maria Torres, Marina Glancy, Mario Wehr, Mark Nelson, Mark Nielsen, Mary Evans, Mathieu Petit-Clair, Matt Petro, Matt Staroste, Matt Switlik, Matteo Scaramuccia, Matthew Tavella, Michael Aherne, Michael Hughes, Michael Milette, Michael Wheeler, Michael Woods, Michael de Raadt, Mohamed Alsharaf, Nadav Kavalerchik, Neill Magill, NeillM, Niclas Tollstorff, Nicolas Dunand, Nobelium, Oleg Demeshev, Oleg Sychev, Osanda Malith Jayathissa, PJ King, Pau Ferrer Ocaña, Paul Charsley, Paul Holden, Paul Nicholls, Paul Verrall, Paula Ardanza Menéndez, Pavel Sokolov, Petr Skoda, Petr Škoda, Petr Škoda, Pierre Pichet, Rajeev S, Rajesh Taneja, Rajneel Totaram, Ray Morris, Rex Lorenzo, Rod Norfor, Rossiani Wijaya, Ruslan Kabalin, Russell Smith, Sam Chaffee, Sam Hemelryk, Shane Elliott, Simey Lameze, Simon Coggins, Skylar Kelty, Stephen Bourget, Steve Clay, Syxton, Tim Hunt, Tim Lock, Tim Price, Tomasz Muras, Tony Butler, Tony Levi, Trevor Cunningham, Tyler Bannister, Virgil Ashruf, Willy Lee, Yolanda Ordóñez Rufat, Yuliya, Yuliya Bozhko, Zachary Durber, apsdehal, fabmen, gdharris, jrchamp, markv, mouneyrac, nobelium, pau.ferrer-ocana, roelmann, rwijaya, sam marshall, shashirepo, spvickers, uhunkler, zbdd

Now as your new year's resolution, please will you normalise you commit author name so that you don't count twice in that list in 2015.

On behalf of all at Moodle HQ, thanks and have a Merry Christmas.

مع أطيب تمنياتي

Dan

Cold numbers:

46 issues have been successfully integrated with 12 rejected and 2 delayed. Thats 79% success - lets no drop any further. 

Notes:

• As we are heading into the festive season there will be a few weeks of disrupted releases (Perth HQ will be shut from 25th December to 1st January). Next week, we will try and bring testing forward to Tuesday, aiming to release on 24th (but this might not happen).
• Sam Hemelryk has posted a proposal about the future of cache stores going forward with Moodle 2.9, please contribute to that discussion if it interests you.
• The HQ team are looking for feedback on some navigation mockups - help them out by trying their mockups out and replying to the thread.
• We welcomed Andrew Nicols and David Monllaó (back) to the Integration team this week. You will see them Integrating an issue near you soon - please help them on the journey
• There are 18 issues awaiting peer-review, twenty-five fewer than last week. That means that if current trends continue, next week we'll have -7 issues to review! Keep the trend going down!
  

Hot Topics

• MDL-46442 - Assignment was missing notification on submission when it was been already notified about before
• MDL-43462 - Landscape PDFs were not shown correctly in EditPDF
• MDL-46472 - Upgrade to 2.7 stuck in 'upgrade database now' loop with undeletable themes
• MDL-48473 - Lesson shortanswer question: fill in the blank option
• MDL-34550 - get_context_instance_by_id() has been removed along with other deprecations

• To John Okely, HQ Developer for the last 9 months and composer of release video backing tracks! Keep up the great work, thanks mate!

Have a good one,

Dan

Cold numbers:

32 issues have been successfully integrated with 5 rejected and 3 delayed. That is 86.49% success, good one!

Notes:

• Some policy issues worth noting:

  • MDL-39079: About the (ab)use of the "title" attribute and clarify once and forever about it (and somehow, also about the "alt" one). Would be great to get this discussed and a conclusion grabbed @ Docs. Before Xmas? To dream is cheap.
  • MDL-48181: About to decide between "regression" labels or versions and their use and ttl.
  • MDL-43233: coding-style only fixes is now documented and we all should be observing those rules.
  • MDL-48145: About 2.9 future requirements. Will be able to decide them before the end of the year?

• A documentation proposal @ MDLSITE-3691: About to perform some refactor of a bunch of development / coding style / policy issues. Right now we have some great (both in a cool and spaghetti way, LOL) pages and we should be able to group, organize all that information in a different, more useful way.

• There are 43 issues awaiting peer-review, four less than previous week. That means that, in 10 weeks, we'll have reviewed all them, yay! Keep the trend going down!

Hot topics:

• MDL-48058: Fixed a recent regression about the "forced" settings in messaging not being honored.
• MDL-48273: Single view report now supports groups correctly.
• MDL-37704: Being able to lock user profile fields.
• And lots more in areas like acceptance tests, enrollments, authentication, backup & restore, resources...

Warm hugs:

• To Sam Hemelryk that, after 5.5 years with us, is moving away from Moodle HQ, looking for new challenges out there. Your skills, your positivism and your never-ending smile will allow you to shine and triumph wherever you go man. Has been a pleasure to share my (late) nights with your (early) mornings all these years. Choice, bro!

Ciao all, stronk7 

PS/Note: After 5.5 years, for some reason it's still impossible for me to write "Hemelryk" without a typo, sad but true. ROFL.

PS2: Edited, s/thanks/hugs, thanks Tim! (/&%"·$(/&%"·$(/&%"·$

Cold numbers:

36 issues have been successfully integrated with 5 rejected and 0 delayed. That is 87.80% success, yippee!

Notes:

• Some policy issues worth noting:

  • MDL-48494: About normalizing/requiring the information required by every plugin version.php information.
  • MDL-43233: About the rules that will define how coding-style only changes are accepted. Soon to be documented @ Docs.
  • MDL-48145: About 2.9 future requirements. Now it's the time to decide about them.

• There are 47 issues awaiting peer-review, don't get depressed, can be sorted out with a bit of discipline and extra effort.

• CiBoT continues getting some extra features, obscure ones this week, won't be giving you more details this time. Just, please, don't base your development branches on integration.git unless there is a very good reason for that. It's really easy, especially after some rewriting of history in that repository (like happened last week) to make mistakes by integrating old, invalid stuff.

Hot topics:

• No comment about fixed issues, all them were really boring cool this week. Look to the summary (36 issues) link and find the interesting ones for you.
• Moodle HQ has moved this week to a new, cool and beautiful office. Not sure what happened with the ping-pong... but still, congrats!
• Some people is moving away from the integration team. Some to continue @ HQ into new roles, others leaving us, looking for new challenges out there. Good luck and best wishes to all them. Has been incredible to work with (and learn from) such a iTeam along the last years.
• Other people is coming to the iTeam, too. Thrilled to have them on-board ASAP and aiming to raise the integration (quality) bar with new ideas and improvements here and there, yay!

Warm thanks:

• To Pau Ferrer Ocaña (crazyserver), for his continued collaboration with multiple issues in the Tracker, always providing help and good ideas. And also... because of curiosity about the "crazyserver" bit on his name.

Ciao all, stronk7 

Edited: s/worth nothing/worth noting, LOL. Thanks Helen!

PS:

Cold numbers:

43 issues have been integrated with 8 rejected and 1 delayed - that is 84% success.

Notes:

• After a productive discussion, some initial work is starting to take place in specifying some exploratory work into an our future JS framework
• We continue to solicit feedback on the proposed CSS Coding guidelines
• It's been another bumper week of CiBot improvements:
• Improvements have been made to the formatting of pre-check reports (MDLSITE-3423)
• The summary for each check is now reported on the tracker 
• A distinction is made between errors and warnings and is clearly distinguished
• The report sections are now directly linked
• Problems reported now link directly to the line/commit/file in question for easier examination (MDLSITE-3645)
• Changes to third party libraries are now detected and a warning is raised if the readme/thirdpartylibs.xml file is not also updated (MDLSITE-3252). Note: further policy for handling of third party libraries is being discussed in MDLSITE-3657
• phplint results are now reported by the pre-checker MDLSITE-3651
• A few csslint problems were fixed: MDLSITE-3647 MDLSITE-3612

Hot topics

• MDL-31500 - problems with backup and restore on the front page resolved
• MDL-20365 - Salted Crypt passwords option for external database authentication
  
• MDL-25763 - Cli version of admin/replace.php
  
• MDL-47834 - New option to restrict concurrent user sessions
  
• MDL-48191 - Horizontal scroll in the Grader report relies on student emails being displayed
  
• MDL-41155 - Maximum number of attempts setting in Lesson not working
  
• MDL-46416 - Impossible to change / remove picture from group
  
• MDL-48277 - Initial CSSLint config added to codebase
  

Warm thanks

To Daniel Thies for working on Moodle bug fixes, sharing his knowledge on the forums and sharing a great first name, thanks a lot!

bejois

Dan

Cold numbers:

42 issues have been successfully integrated with 7 rejected. That is 85% success, not bad for the first week of changes accepted into Moodle 2.9.

Notes:

• As noted last week, the on-sync period has ended early along with the release of Moodle 2.8.1 and so this week we started accepted new changes into master for Moodle 2.9
• A Moodle 2.6 weekly release was produced despite being in security only support in order to address a recently introduced regression (MDL-48042)
• Discussion has been opened into a CSS coding style over on the themes forum. Please join in and leave your comments there
• Various automated check improvements have taken place with CiBot gaining some new abilities:
• MDLSITE-2003 - syntax checking of all php files in integration.git
• MDLSITE-2102 - CiBot now checks javascript with jshint
  
• MDLSITE-3612 - CiBot now checks css with csslint ( MDL-48277 is waiting to add an initial csslint configuration to moodle)
  
• Some small improvements were made to the style of the code checker report
• MDLSITE-3423 - will introduce much more useful reporting of CiBot results into the tracker comments

Hot topics:

• MDL-47803 - New page reporting currently logged in sessions
  
• MDL-36240 - Problem fixed with calendar events not restoring when user data not backed up
  
• MDL-36874 - Text navigation for the book module
  
• MDL-47501 - Added an indication when grade letters are overridden
  
• MDL-48179 - Fix for backups timing when including large files

Warm thanks:

To David Balch for various fixes, improvements and helpful contributions - many thanks!

Adiós,

Dan

Cold numbers

During the Moodle 2.8 freeze period 268 issues were integrated at a rate of approximately 89 issues per week, compared to 595 at the rate of 28 issues per week during the normal part of the 2.8 cycle. The numbers clearly show it's been an intense period, with hard work from all.

Notes

• Yesterday marked the start of the on-sync period - where we keep master and MOODLE_28_STABLE the same and identical patches are applied to both branches. We remain on-sync for 3 weeks (until 1st December 2014)
  
• The purposes of this time is to reduce the work which would be required to fix any critical regressions as well as reduce the testing load. See also: a previous thread on this topic.
• During this period we do not integrate new features or improvements to master. Feel free to submit these issues for integration but note that they will be held to the end of the on-sync period.
• Note that while master and 28 have very little differences, they are not common ancestors and its not possible to merge into both branches. While a cherry-pick request is acceptable it is helpful to integrators to supply separate branches for master and MOODLE_28_STABLE as is usual
• Please use the 2.8-regression version on any issues detected to be a regression caused by the recent releases.
• With the 2.8.0 major release other branches changed status:
• 2.6.x has now entered the security-support period and we will no longer accept normal bug-fixes on MOODLE_26_STABLE
• 2.5.9 was the final security-supported release of 2.5.x and will no longer be receiving any fixes
• We are saying goodbye to some integrators over the next few weeks due to internal changes in Moodle HQ, please bear with us if service is slower than normal. The carrot you can eat while waiting is the news that Marina becomes our new Development Process Manager and Damyon our Development Team Manager. I am certain both will have a positive impact in their new focus, though missed by us!

Hot Topics

• MDL-15169 - Solve the global climate problem ASAP
  

Warm thanks

To Ankit Agarwal for years of bug fixing, new features, testing  and tasty indian food. Especially for dealing with this integrators flippant comments last week - thanks!

Cold numbers

Since our last update on freeze beta release day.. 140 issues have been integrated with 11 rejected - that is 89% success.

Notes

• Apologies for the lack of updates - we've been busy getting through the frantic time before release - such is the volume of issues to integrate that we've integrated nearly 50% as many issues in the last few weeks than before the freeze started. Hopefully this means we are approaching a well polished release!
  
• We are currently in 'continuous integration' a period where we are trying to produce regular releases of master for the community to test. Learn more on moodledocs.
• Moodle.org has been upgraded to todays 2.8 Beta release, so you are reading this forum post on Moodle 2.8 Beta! Let us know what you think in the community sites forum.
• Thanks to all our testers out there, we are now nearly at 100% pass rate for Moodle 2.8 QA tests and things remain on track for a release on schedule

Hot Topics

• MDL-47588 - Chrome and phantomjs now support switching windows in behat - which means that Chrome is now capable of passing all automated acceptance tests along with firefox. See https://docs.moodle.org/dev/Acceptance_testing/Browsers#Compatibility
  

Warm thanks:

To Jayesh Anandani - for completing the most QA tests in the 2.8 cycle and former Google Summer of Code student - thanks for helping out!

Cold numbers:

62 issues have been successfully integrated with 9 rejected and 1 delayed. That is 87% success - good work.

Notes:

• This week was the final one to get new features integrated into Moodle 2.8 and so it was a busy one. Integrators and testers were kept busy with a staggering 727 files changed, 232999 insertions(+), 77778 deletions(-). Hopefully we can get to the point where we avoid so much landing at once in future, better to spread the load.
  
• Earlier today, Moodle 2.8 Beta was released. The release signifies our change in focus towards testing Moodle 2.8 and getting it polished for the release in a month's time.
• The Moodle 2.8 QA cycle starts on Monday - we've got more automated tests than ever before - 21,673 automated acceptance test steps, 50,774 unit test assertions but of course we really appreciate and value our human testers who find things the bots can't! Stay tuned to the Testing and QA forum to find out how you can get invovled.

Hot topics:

• MDL-3714 - reply to forum posts by email
  
• MDL-31936 - workshop module now supports reset
• MDL-45893 - New User menu
• MDL-43089 - improved user interface for building quizzes
  
• MDL-43472 - moving courses functionality restored to the course search screen
  
• MDL-46210 - Language packs will now be updated automatically
  
• MDL-32870 - Lesson questions and answers can now embed files
  
• MDL-46481 - 'One click' backup
  
• MDL-46576 - Natural aggregation in gradebook
  

Warm thanks:

To Helen Foster & Mary Cooch for tirelessly working with us to improve understability, document our new features and make our ready for all our users. Thanks!

(This gives me an opportunity to developers this is a warning to you to, remember Helen, Mary and the other authors/trainers etc who will need to redo a screenshot or screencast because you decided you *needed* to change something after freeze!).

I'm off to the pub!

チャオチャオ

Dan

42 issues have been successfully integrated with 5 rejected and 1 delayed. That is 89% success - better than the week before with 22 issues with 6 rejected and 0 delayed and 79% success.

Notes:

As announced by Michael last week, code freeze starts for Moodle 2.8 on Monday so please submit any new feature or improvements for integration before then.

If you are able to peer review an issue waiting in the next few days we can ensure no valuable contributions are lost by the freeze deadline. (If you don't have permission to send for integration, feel free to ping people loudly).

A few changes have landed to improve CiBot in the last few weeks. The coding style report format was improved (MDLSITE-3422), in progress branches will now be checked with up to 100 commits (MDLSITE-3420) and Moodle phpdocs checker now does not complain about plain test methods (MDLSITE-3282), finally documentation was added to explain the short git commit message first line length. Further work continues in MDLSITE-3267 subtasks and elsewhere.

Apologies for the lack of update last week, it was my mistake, but we've got a bumper update today.

Finally the iTeam wish Eloy and his family good luck in their move to a new house next week!

Hot topics:

• MDL-3034 - Multiple choice in choice
  
• MDL-43566 - Restore the edit icons on course search lists
  
• MDL-10971 - Multiple choice questions inside a Cloze question now respect the quiz's shuffle answers option
  
• MDL-47276 - Quiz overdue handling now defaults to auto-submit
  
• MDL-32275 - Course enrolment screen displays last access to the site not the course
  
• MDL-37707 - Assignment now prevents changes to group submissions if assignments already submitted
  
• MDL-36929 - Full report of recent activity new indicates new discussions
  
• MDL-42974 / MDL-47380 - IE8 compatibility fixes
  
• MDL-40356 - Additional name fields can now be configured to be displayed to users with the viewfullnames capability
  

Warm thanks:

To Jean-Michel Vedrine, for amazing contributions to questions, lesson and persevering with our increased requirements on code contributed to Moodle core.  À votre bon cœur !

ลาก่อนนะ

Dan

Cold numbers:

21 issues have been successfully integrated with 2 rejected and 0 delayed. That is 91%, better than last week, but lets get more of the 30 issues waiting for peer review sent to integration!

Notes:

• Lots of work continues in improving the gradebook with the Moodle HQ teams, after a number of different gamification plugins being produced in the project week.
  
• This week saw the introduction of a string deprecation process for use on master. Please consider helping our translators lives easier by trying to use this process to get rid of unused strings.
  
• CiBot has been trained in the art of inspecting our commit messages and upgrade steps (MDLSITE-1990), see Automated code review docs for further details.
  

Hot topics:

• MDL-35468 - bulk cohort upload
  
• MDL-44447 - option to export grade total in letters
  
• MDL-47209 - Incompatibility with OneDrive repository fixed 
  

Warm thanks:

• To Andrew Davis, for many years of Moodle bug fixing and now stepping over to help us in the community sites team!

Beijos,

Dan

Cold numbers:

24 issues have been successfully integrated with 7 rejected and 0 delayed. That is 77.42%, we need to improve.

Notes:

• Carried from previous week, we must get these decided:

  • MDL-45504: Moodle 2.8 requirements.
  • MDL-46064: Drop support for MyISAM.

• There are 30 issues awaiting peer-review, let's aim to process as many as possible.

• The prototypes site is up and running some of the features planned for next release. Feel free to participate, review, discuss about any of them.

Hot topics:

• MDL-46997 - better calculation of sums of grades with hidden items.
• MDL-46428 - remove confirmation on duplicate activity.
• MDL-43739 - course custom sort order in the /my page improved.
• MDL-45602 - behat cohort members generators.

And lots more in gradebook, themes, backup, web services...

Warm thanks:

• To Matthew Spurrier, our system admin @ Moodle HQ. For keeping the machinery working 24x7, supporting (suffering) us and being such a cool guy, thanks!

Ciao all, stronk7 

Cold numbers:

29th August: 27 issues have been successfully integrated with 8 rejected and 0 delayed. That is 77.14% success, tricky week.

5th September: 28 issues have been successfully integrated with 3 rejected and 0 delayed. That is 90.32% success, great one!

Notes:

• First of all, I would like to apologise for the delay, I missed last week post completely.

• New minor releases 2.5.8, 2.6.5 and 2.7.2 will be available in hours, big thanks to everybody for all the hard work fixing, tidying and improving Moodle.

• We are just 2 months away for the next major release, Moodle 2.8 and there are some important days to remember:

  • 2 weeks until 22th September: Major new features are demoable.
  • 4 weeks until 6th October: Code freeze (no new features are accepted).
  • 5 weeks until 13th October: QA begins.
  • 9 weeks until 10th November: Planned Moodle 2.8 release day.

• We should be able to get these decided, ideally this week:

  • MDL-45504: Moodle 2.8 requirements.
  • MDL-46064: Drop support for MyISAM.

Hot topics:

• MDL-44725: Bye, bye groupmembersonly!
• MDL-46235: Problems with InnoDB tables having many varchar/text columns.
• MDL-46191: Gradebook history report.
• MDL-39929: Allow attachments of files for students to use.

And lots more in themes, scorm, gradebook, administration, questions...

Warm thanks:

• To Henning Bostelmann, from the University of York. For his effort with Moodle, both within core and producing plugins. You rock!

Ciao all, stronk7 

Cold numbers:

38 issues have been successfully integrated with 3 rejected and 1 delayed. That is 93% success, give yourselves a pat on the back!

Notes:

• Moodle is 12!!!!! (and someone else had a birthday - not me)
• Atto has autosave. Try it right now on the QA test site.

• Gradebook push is on right now with many bug fixes, simplifications and a new aggregation method to rule them all Natural weighting

• Heads up: We are 2 weeks away - September 8th - for next minor releases so, please, submit your important fixes for stables ASAP.

Hot topics:

• MDL-46545 - Weekly stats breaking after MDL-41284
• MDL-43197 - Parent role only sees course total and no longer individual grades
• MDL-45874 - Issue with navigation/access to individual user activity reports, particularly by non-editing teachers in separate groups.
• MDL-18014 - Automatically and periodically save WYSIWYG editor content as a draft/concept
• MDL-46706 - Library: API to get cm_info more easily

And lots more in Scorm, Forum, Gradebook, LTI ....

Warm thanks:

Dan Marsden and Tim Hunt for resolving the most issues in the last month (the integration monster needs to be fed!).

Cheers, Damyon

Cold numbers:

32 issues have been successfully integrated with 5 rejected and 4 delayed. That is 86% success.

Notes:

• Good news for everyone, as part of Gradebook Push (MDL-44673) Moodle not only introduces new functionality and UI but also fixes the gradebook issues in stables, don't forget to update to the latest weeklies!
  

• MDL-35984 - Gradebook Sum of grades shows wrong total if items are hidden
  
• MDL-45780 - Neither formchangechecker, nor quiz autosave detects changes in Atto editors
  
• MDL-46748 - Mathjax default SSL CDN address is down causing atto to fail to load
  
• MDL-43824 - Fix alignment in Gradebook in Clean theme
• MDL-30668 - No more exceptions when collapsing categories in Gradebook

Warm thanks:

• To Willy Lee for being very active on tracker by reporting issues and fixing them
  

Cold numbers:

16 issues have been successfully integrated with 6 rejected. That is 70% success.

Notes:

• Very quiet week since HQ devs are heavily involved in big projects from Gradebook Push (MDL-44673) which have not reached integration stage yet.
  

• MDL-46548 - Improved interface for export of grades
  
• MDL-39840 - Add ability to check environment before installing plugins
  
• MDL-46414 - Conditional availability: Dropdowns not set correctly when editing in IE
  
• MDL-41639 - Auto create Cohorts when they don't exist in CSV upload
  

Warm thanks:

• To Moodle mum for wonderful ginger buiscuits and other yummy things she spoils HQ office with
  

Cold numbers:

30 issues have been successfully integrated with 4 rejected. That is 88% success.

Notes:

• The quiet summer period continues this week, but work is starting to come through on the Gradebook Push (MDL-44673) and Navigation Overhaul (MDL-45774).
• Have you seen this month's featured plugin? Head over to the plugins traffic forum to see a super interesting story of Gordon Bateson and how hotpot came to be!

Peer review:

There are currently 22 issues waiting for peer review - lets not fall behind!

Hot topics:

• MDL-8501 - Added proceed to next thread link to forum
  
• MDL-34189 - Make category cohorts visible sitewide for site administrators
• MDL-43390 - Cannot upload files in certain cloud hosting environments
• MDL-46397 - Progress through a SCORM activity is not tracked

Warm thanks:

• To Matthew Davidson for many useful patches and improvements to Moodle, thanks!

Namaste,

Dan

Cold numbers:

24 issues have been successfully integrated with 5 rejected. That is 83% success.

Notes:

• On Tuesday a General Developer Meeting was held with a nice run through of creating an Atto plugin by Justin Hunt as well as information about some current developments taking place in Moodle HQ
• We've reached a quiet period of integration over the last few weeks - despite many Moodle developers residing in the southern hemisphere - it seems everyone is taking a 'summer break' :P
• Our automated testing bot CiBot has been improved and now states the results of code checks more clearly. Anyone is welcomed in helping us improve our documentation on the bot or suggest new checks.

Peer review:

There are currently 27 issues waiting for peer review - lets not fall behind!

Hot topics:

• MDL-46159 - Course search reinstated in the course management interface
• MDL-44925 - SVG Support added to to TeX Filter
• MDL-37509 - Description of assignment will no longer show in calendar when "always show description" = NO
• MDL-46017 - Assignment Allocated Marker and Marking Status are now restored from backup

Warm thanks:

• Brian Barnes (Totara) for a lot of important accessibility fixes and improvements - thanks!

ciao Dan

Cold numbers:

24 issues have been successfully integrated with 5 rejected. That is 83% success.

Notes:

• This week Damyon and Raj attended the Australian Moodle Moot along with a number of other Moodle HQ staff. They came back inspired and energised. Thanks to those from the community who also attended for sharing your feedback and energy, its made its way back to Europe!
• The integration team are currently considering policy for coding style changes, please comment on MDL-43233 if you are interested in this area.
• Some discussions currently ongoing about Moodle 2.8:  disabling loginhttps (with preference to switching to site-wide https),  elements and the element library and more on the Future major features forum.

Peer review:

There are currently 18 issues waiting for peer review - lets not fall behind!

Hot topics:

• MDL-40457 - Question Bank - Allow plugins to add columns to question bank view
• MDL-42071 - Support for split memcache/memcached stores
• MDL-46161 - File deletion very slow with large number of file records

Warm thanks:

• To Skylar Kelty (University of Kent) - for many important bug reports and patches, thanks!

ciao

Dan

Cold numbers:

39 issues have been successfully integrated with 8 rejected and 2 delayed. That is 82.98% success, slightly under average.

Notes:

• A new way to move classes to autoloading has found its way for 2.8 and upwards. It keeps the old classes working and emits some nice debugging messages for developers.

• The Roadmap for Moodle 2.8 continues hot and progresses are happening in many of those areas (it would be really great to have the Roadmap items linked to every spec, btw ).

• Some interesting discussions worth noting:

  • Plugin2plugin communication and related stuff: Hopefully with a developers meeting soon to achieve an agreement about such important architectural decision.

  • Moving output renderers and rendereables under the autoload umbrella. With more details in the Tracker.

  • An annoying unit test failure that, no matter the counter measures we have implemented, continues kicking us all the time. We are failing to understand the causes for it, ideas welcome!.

• Heads up: We are 2 weeks away - July 14th - for next minor releases so, please, try to move any important stuff for stables to be ready ASAP.

Hot topics:

• MDL-43835 - New, unique DB sequences for each unit/acceptance test.
• MDL-1626 - Forum per discussion subscriptions, finally!
• MDL-44124 - Better import of ical recurring events.
• MDL-45985 - New script to validate database schemas.
• MDL-45445 - Better validation of events for correctness.

And lots more in the Atto editor, the Events API, Quizzes, Administration, LTI, Backup & restore...

Warm thanks:

• To Darko Miletić, from Moodlerooms. Tireless, clever and speaks Spanish (that's specially important for me). Thanks for all your hard work with Moodle since years ago!

Ciao all, stronk7 

Cold numbers:

2014-06-19

22 issues have been successfully integrated with 4 rejected and 0 delayed. That is 84% success, nice!

2014-06-13

27 issues have been successfully integrated with 6 rejected and 0 delayed. That is 81% success!

Notes:

• Martin is back from the Moodlemoot in France
• Dev teams are halfway through sprint 1

• Moodle 2.8 requirements need deciding - please comment on MDL-45504

• You really really can reply to these posts if you want to!

Hot topics:

• MDL-45941 - allow message sending when DB transaction active
• MDL-45901 - Random question category question are not visible, in RTL mode
• MDL-45582 - Apply grades and feedback to entire group does not work with Annotate PDF feature
• MDL-42531 - Cancel buttons on batch marker allocate and workflow state pages still save changes
• MDL-31998 - Feedback depend questions bug

And lots more in libraries, quiz, acceptance tests...

Warm thanks:

• To Everyone who attended the gradebook workshop with Martin. It sounds like you were very productive and have made plans for much improvement in that area.

Thanks, Damyon

(Edited by Damyon Wiese - original submission Monday, 2 June 2014, 8:39 AM)

Cold numbers:

22 issues have been successfully integrated with 3 rejected and 0 delayed. That is 88% success, good one!

Notes:

• This has been the 3rd (and final) week under the on-sync period. So, now, we are back to normality, branches can diverge and all the held issues since freeze will find their way upstream.

• Moodle 2.5.x has fallen out of support for general fixes and we only will be accepting security and dataloss issues (until 10 November 2014).

• The Roadmap for Moodle 2.8 has been defined, with interesting dates and main areas. Please, aim to have any new development pretty ready to be shown and considered at least 2 weeks before hard freeze (22 September 2014).

• Please, visit MDL-45504 and comment about any potential requirement change to be considered for Moodle 2.8. By default, 2.7 ones will be applied.

• Join to the ongoing threads about reports, navigation or the elements library. It's the moment to discuss about them.

• Little detail, did you know that these posts can be replied? Of course, only if you've something positive and constructive to say, be warned, Tim, LOL. Jokes aside, feel free, you (all) are welcome.

Hot topics:

• MDL-45682 - Cannot insert images in the (Atto) editor.
• MDL-45698 - Fix all behat branches to make them immune to upstream bugs/incompatibilities.
• MDL-45607 - Incorrect context passed to the user_profile_viewed event.
• MDL-44014 - Errors loading the site admin menu.
• MDL-45660 - Quiz question analysis leads to fatal error

And lots more in assignments, events api, questions, acceptance tests...

Warm thanks:

• To David Monllaó. He has been in charge of building and organizing the complex world of acceptance & performance testing for Moodle. Hard work, great achievement and thanks for all the, many times, under the scene, continue efforts, towards getting it to its current level. We'll miss you with your move to the development backend team (2m away from us, yay, lol).

Ciao all, stronk7 

Cold numbers:

58 issues have been successfully integrated with 7 rejected and 0 delayed. That is 89% success, well done!

Notes:

• This has been the 2nd (of 3) weeks under the called "on-sync" period. So the gates will be open soon for all your new and crazy stuff.
• Today, integrators have had the 2nd session of our retrospective meeting. Hopefully we won't need more than 5 or 6 sessions to complete it. Tons of thoughts, POVs, tasks... but worth noting that, overall, the consensus is that the progress towards 2.7 has been more organized, more in time, more focussed than ever, so congrats to everybody that was part of any aspect of it.
• Of course, there are still some areas requiring a bit of love and dedication, especially peer-review. We hope to come with some practical ideas/proposals about that soon.

• Also, after some indecision and long discussions we have agreed about to move away from the currently vague end of support dates (they are right now "months") and often it's not clear what they mean (point release, next point release, end of month...) both for developers and for us. So, starting with 2.6 and upwards we are moving to this simple and accurate definition:

  "End of support, both general and security, happens the 2nd Monday of May and November, no matter the major release is delayed or no."

  This will be moved to the Docs and applied to 2.6 and upwards (of course observing the 12mo, 18mo... periods).

• We are (only) 1.5y away from Moodle 3.0. If I was you, I'd start thinking... personally I'd love to see a evolutive revolution. What's that? Don't know (yet), but like the terms-mix.
• More coming soon...

Hot topics:

• The Tracker is down, so the only hot topic is to try to get it back ASAP. I'd blame Java, but prefer to blame Jira (matter of preferences).

Warm thanks:

• To the unique, genuine and never repeatable Dan Poltawski. Just give me 3 like him and we'll move the World. Am I exaggerating? Surely, but I can. Many thanks for all the hard work and, simply, don't change ever. AU HQ will miss you for sure but I'll be happier having you nearer my TZ @ UK, lol. Have a nice trip!

Ciao all, stronk7 

Cold numbers (last round):

6 issues have been successfully integrated with 2 rejected and 1 delayed. That is 75% success, really we had a quiet week after release.

Some more numbers since the last update:

51 issues have been successfully integrated with 2 rejected (96% success).

Notes:

• Moodle 2.7 is out of the oven - get a hot steaming copy now!
• Planning for Moodle 2.8 is underway - expect some discussions in the developers/new features forums soon
• We are in the on-sync period for 2.8. This means identical patches will be applied to both Moodle 2.7 and 2.8 for the next few weeks (no new features yet).

Hot topics:

• MDL-45523 and MDL-45522 - Upgrade problems with quizes
• MDL-45462 - Flickr API must use HTTPS
• MDL-43312 - Upgrade TinyMCE to 3.5.10 (Fixes: links in TinyMCE are removed from HTML on insert/edit in IE)
• MDL-44606 and MDL-45332 - Prevent cross-site scripting

Warm thanks:

• Everyone involved in the release of Moodle 2.7 - this means students, teachers, admins, devs, testers, docs writers, translators, partners and Martin. It really is a great release we can be very proud of
• Eloy for doing 1000 behind the scenes jobs that made this release so smooth for the rest of us

Cheers, Damyon

Cold numbers:

34 issues have been successfully integrated with 5 rejected. That is 87% success. (And in the rounds we missed since our last update, 156 issues have been succesfully integrated with 18 rejected.)

Notes:

• Last Friday saw the release of Moodle 2.7-rc1. Testing continues for the next week and we look on target to release 2.7 on schedule.
• We would like to call out to you! If you have a Moodle site with real data and can spare time, now would be an excellent time to carry out a test upgrade of your site and help us iron out any niggles that might remain in these final days.
• In the iTeam there is a strong feeling that this release has really started to reap the rewards of our automated acceptance test coverage. If you have contributed tests in Moodle 2.7, give yourself a pat on the back! It only gets better from here, but there is plenty more work to do, so if you haven't looked at behat yet now is a great time to learn!
• As tends to happen in this time building up to release the integration team have been frantically integrating, testing and not posting these updates as often as we'd like. Apologies for the interuption in sevice!
  

Peer review:

There are currently 22 issues waiting for peer review - lets not fall behind!

Hot topics:

• MDL-45250 - add_to_log() was deprecated and now throws a debugging notice
• MDL-44780 - Mathsjax filter is now enabled by default
• MDL-41975 - Alfresco repository now supports newer versions

Warm thanks:

• To Matteo Scaramuccia, who is quietly helping many many people in tracker issues far and wide each day. Thank you, Moodle is much better with your contributions!

ciao Dan

Cold numbers:

72 issues have been successfully integrated with 18 rejected. That is 80% success.

Notes:

• 2.7 code freeze has started.
• 2.7 beta has been released.
• 2.7 QA testing has started
• Last week we brought in all 'waiting for peer review' issues into integration to try and prevent important issues from getting missed. Please help us avoid needing to do this in future!
• Some interesting discussions have been happening no the general developer forum about the peer review process and code freeze, add your views to the discussion!

Hot topics:

• MDL-44070 - Conditional availability: Enhancements including OR conditions, plugins
• MDL-22999 - Allow maximum points for graded activities to exceed 100
• MDL-33486 - Individual Wiki search fixed
• MDL-31679 - Add a horizontal scroll bar to the top of the gradebook Grader Report

Warm thanks:

• To Ashley Holman - a long lost bug fix from Ash landed this week - thanks for your many Moodle contributions over the years!

beijos Dan

Cold numbers:

60 issues have been successfully integrated with 8 rejected and 1 delayed. That is 88% success, busy week.

Notes:

• ONE last week remaining before the 2.7 freeze.
• SIX MONTHS before the 2.8 freeze, time to start developing new awesome features!

Hot topics:

• MDL-30085 - Webservices to retrieve and update grades
• MDL-35305 - Backup and restore of images embedded in wiki
• MDL-28261 - SCORM session test to detect network failure
• MDL-44862 - Postgres dbport is no longer discarded when dbsocket is used (admins, check your connection settings!)

Warm thanks:

• To Moodle community for reporting bugs, providing patches, voting on issues and talking on forums. It's you who make the project going.

Have a great weekend, Marina