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

Cold numbers:

36 issues have been successfully integrated with 7 rejected and 1 delayed. That is 84% success, not bad at all.

Notes:

• Stuff for Moodle 2.7 is landing at good pace. There are still 2 integration cycles (weeks) remaining where new features and improvements will be considered, analyzed and, potentially, integrated. Then freeze will happen, nothing new will be accepted, and everybody will be 100% concentrated on testing and bug fixing aiming to release.
• This week a new CI (continuous integration) server has got the baton, and soon will completely replace the old one. It's bigger, faster and prettier, sure it will give us enough power to automate and to improve various checks and tests, making life a bit easier to everybody.
• Soon after the freeze, a new QA cycle will begin. Human collaboration will be requested, both to run a set of MDLQA manual tests and to cover as many OS/PHP/Database/Browser combinations for both our unit and acceptance tests.
• For people needing to move stuff (self organization), the Moodle 2.8 version has been already created in the Tracker. In the same direction, but for use by Moodle HQ, in order to determine which issues are a must before release, the Moodle "mustfix" 2.7 version has been created too.
• Issues to peer-review are stagnating, 45 right now, any help will be welcome in that area. TIA!

Hot topics:

• MDL-43784 - Phase out old themes, only base and canvas are kept to provide BC compatibility. The move to Bootstrap is now complete.
• MDL-43786 - Introducing and improving "more" a new bootstrap-base theme, highly configurable and including a on-the-fly less compiler embed.
• MDL-44316 - Normalization of the "tag" API to use component and context like many other sister APIs.
• MDL-44510 - Add support to PHPUnit 4. Composer will be the (only) way to run unit tests from now.
• MDL-44084 - Meet atto, the new HTML editor for Moodle 2.7
• And lots more, specially in the area of logging where a lot of reports, calls and uses of the old logs are being replaced by the new counterparts.

Warm thanks:

• To Moodle's HQ Frontend Team, and by extension, to everybody involved in the big transformation that is happening. Moodle never looked so nice and coherent, so accessible and usable. Thanks for your love to the details! No matter of that, please, don't sleep now, there are lots to do! (ROFL)

Ciao all, stronk7 

Cold numbers:

50 issues have been successfully integrated with 8 rejected and 3 delayed. That is 86% success.

Hot topics:

• MDL-29807 - Webservice add admin page: should be able to enter the unique shortname of a service
• MDL-41115 - Use email as login
• MDL-39568 - Using marking guide students do not see marks in the guide before grading

Warm thanks and welcome:

• Moodle HQ welcomes new developers Jetha Chan and Simey Lameze. Jetha has already fixed an installation bug. Good start guys and thanks for making Moodle better!

Cheers, Marina

Cold numbers:

35 issues have been successfully integrated with 9 rejected and 5 delayed. That is 79% success.

Notes:

• 2.7 code freeze is only 3 weeks away (7th April 2014).
• Some discussions are happening in MDL-44357 about the future of theme_clean and LESS compilation from PHP. Please join the discussion if you have useful information to add.

Peer review:

There are currently 41 issues waiting for peer review - its clear we're falling behind there. Please help a fellow developer by reviewing their changes!

Hot topics:

• MDL-43721 - Performance improvements in assignment grading
• MDL-43236 - Behat grammar improvements
• MDL-43497 - Allow course language to be overridden for roles with a given capability

Warm thanks:

• To Juan Leyva, for his work on Moodle Mobile, webservices and a number of Add-ons!

beijos Dan

Cold numbers:

38 issues have been successfully integrated with 8 rejected and 2 delayed. That is 83% success, not bad.

Notes:

• 3 minor releases are coming next Monday (Moodle 2.4.9, 2.5.5 and 2.6.2).
• 2 weeks for 2.7 full demo of new features (March 24th).
• 1 day for Jerome to leave us. We'll miss you, man!
• 0 more things to say, countdown finished.

Hot topics:

• MDL-41266 - Logging interfaces have landed, now reports will begin to use them.
• MDL-43635 - Better handling of custom context levels.
• MDL-43738 - Normalize Behat forms handling.
• MDL-44361 - Yui updated to 3.15.0
• And lots more, including security fixes for the incoming releases, and solutions in areas like quizzes, themes, libraries, glossaries...

Warm thanks:

• To Michael Milette, for his collaboration and help in the Tracker, proposing and solving multiple accessibility issues. Thanks!
  

Ciao all, stronk7 

Cold numbers:

41 issues have been successfully integrated with 10 rejected and 0 delayed. That is 80% success, great (but Sams is still skewing the counts with phpdocs fixes).

Notes:

• Minor release week next week - get ready.
• Public holiday in Perth on Monday so HQ will be quieter than usual
• Scheduled tasks + parallel cron has landed - http://docs.moodle.org/dev/Task_API
• Integrators are reviewing and discussing the use of namespaces in Moodle (https://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDLSITE-2549). Expect a policy written about this "very soon".
• Do you have some spare minutes and some knowledge? Take a look to this list of issues waiting for peer review and let's reduce it to zero.

Hot topics:

• MDL-25505 - Scheduled tasks / Parallel cron
• MDL-41767 - plugins unable to provide "bootstrapbase" or "clean" styles
• MDL-44269 - Change location of navbar (breadcumb) to below logo in Clean theme.
• And lots more in accessibility, testing, javascript and phpdocs

Warm thanks:

• Daniel Neis for reporting, fixing and following up on issues right across Moodle. Thankyou, please do more of that!

Cheers, Damyon

Cold numbers:

74 issues have been successfully integrated with 7 rejected and 0 delayed. That is 90% success, great (but all Sams issues fixing phpdocs have skewed this week).

Notes:

• There is a 2.4 release this week because we were convinced to backport some non-security - but nasty data-loss bugs for the quiz backup/restore
• Up for review next week is - Parallel cron aka scheduled tasks (MDL-25505).
• Work is continuing on Atto (the new text editor), Logging and Clean as the default theme - expect to see them integrated in the coming weeks.
• Do you have some spare minutes and some knowledge? Take a look to this list of issues waiting for peer review and let's reduce it to zero.

Hot topics:

• MDL-27414 - Upgrade the randomsamatch question type to the new question engine
• MDL-44018 - variant field of question_attempts table is not getting backed up by Moodle backup
• MDL-42618 - Importing Grades via CSV with blank or whitespace as useridnumber
• MDL-43504 - Collapsable courses and categories don't work (combo list??)
• And lots more in quiz, themes, events, and phpdocs

Warm thanks:

• To our newest iTeam member Rajesh Tanaja, for jumping enthusiastically into our testing team with David and becoming a Jenkins Jedi.

Cheers, Damyon

Cold numbers:

29 issues have been successfully integrated with 7 rejected and 3 delayed. That is 81% success, not bad.

Notes:

• After some good discussions here and there it seems that, soon, we'll be able to have namespaces under control. Once everything gets reviewed and decided, they will be added to out coding style guidelines.
• Some awesome developments are happening under the scene, into some big development branches, it's time to learn about events (since 2.6), logging, atto and conditional availability enhancements, all them important goals for Moodle 2.7. Read the specs, look at the issues, discuss in forums, now it's the time!
• Do you have some spare minutes and some knowledge? Take a look to this list of issues waiting for peer review and let's reduce it to zero.

Hot topics:

• MDL-42882 - Performance improvement on upgrade when handling files.
• MDL-40938 - Login block using the clean theme.
• MDL-44029 - Quiz user overrides being deleted incorrectly.
• MDL-43200 - Fixes to manual enrolment web services.
• MDL-32724 - LDAP fixes when updating user information.
• MDL-43804 - Move from r0, r1 css alternate styling to newer, widely supported, nth-* selectors.
• And lots more in themes, ajax, quiz, backup, accessibility, installation...

Warm thanks:

• To Justin Filip, for his continuous collaboration and help everywhere. His, always, cool mood and wise words are really welcome, thanks!
  

Ciao all, stronk7 

• MDL-38923 Clean theme now supports the dock in master. If you'd like to see this backported please vote on MDL-43995. Thanks Bas.
• MDL-39617 We have a new CLI script that is used to backup a single course. Thanks Ruslan.
• MDL-43592 We've now got a means of patching YUI when we need to without hitting caching issues.
• Several Quiz and question improvements from Jamie Pratt.

Cold numbers:

26 issues have been successfully integrated with 7 rejected. That is 79% success.

Notes:

• If you use PhantomJS for behat tests please be aware of the new tag to exclude (details)

Hot topics:

• MDL-25500 - Moodle now has a locking framework
• MDL-34055 - we now have a way to bulk insert through dml
• MDL-43761 - database installation performance improvements
• MDL-43040 - please upgrade your module version.php scripts to use $plugin instead of $module if they aren't already

Warm thanks:

• To SITES team for their amazing work on moodle.org. Well done!

Cold numbers:

45 issues have been successfully integrated with 13 rejected. That is 78% success.

Notes:

• This week we welcomed Rajesh Taneja to the iTeam, helping us on our testing effort! Welcome Raj, great to have you on board!
• We gave an update at the General Developer Meeting on Tuesday - the recording is now available for your viewing plesaure!
• CiBot has transitioned off its baby food of SHA1 hashes and now is eating branches whole

Peer review:

There are currently 24 issues waiting for peer review - its clear we're falling behind there. Please help a fellow developer by reviewing their changes!

Hot topics:

• MDL-26680 - MyMoodle reset to default button
• MDL-41688 - Gradebook improvements in bootstrap based themes
• MDL-32523 - Ability to duplicate questions in the question bank

Warm thanks:

• To Martín Langhoff, returning to the Moodle moodle community after a honeymoon in OLPC. Welcome back, we look forward to rejecting your patches soon.

beijos Dan

Cold numbers:

48 issues have been successfully integrated with 7 rejected and 0 delayed. That is 87% success, well done!

Notes:

• After releasing some minor versions this week, here we go, a full-two-months-period where, apart from bug-fixing, everybody will be pushing hard in the construction of Moodle 2.7 (coming in May!).
• Don't forget the next online Developer Meeting, sure it's plenty of exciting stuff.
• Meet CiBoT. You will love (or hate) it. Feelings will grow exponentially along the next weeks. Guaranteed!

Hot topics:

• MDL-43664 - Javascript IE < 8 fixes.
• MDL-33952 - The new assignment module, able to restore instances of the old one.
• MDL-40705 - Clean theme navigation menu fixes.
• MDL-43524 - Old DB text caching dropped (2.7 and upwards).
• MDL-43439 - Option to take screenshots on acceptance tests failures.
• And lots more in themes, ajax, scorm, gradebook, asignment, logging...

Warm thanks:

• To Petr Škoda, Andrew Nicols and Mark Nelson for being the current top peer-reviewers. Many thanks for all your reviews. They are really important in the process.
  

Ciao all, stronk7 

PS: Yay, I did introduce the year (2014) correctly in my post. First time ever!

Cold numbers
65 issues were accepted, 12 issues this week didn't quite make it (and 6 we didn't get time to look at). Thats 84%.

Notes:

• Minor releases next week

Interesting happenings from this weeks run: MDL-18770 - Non-graded Assignment and Quizzes appear in the gradebook and have Max Grade assigned MDL-40551 - Support fully deleting badges MDL-42585 - Refine capabilities that permit user to see assignments and the user feedbacks without ability to grade

Warm thanks:

This week goes to Shamim Rezaie for visiting us in Perth! Shamim is from Iran and has been contributing to Moodle support for multiple calendar types.

Regards Damyon

• MDL-34182 - fixes to help us (or really you) avoid issues when serving content for AJAX requests.
• MDL-41788 - custom menu language drop down breakages have been fixed.
• Several more JS improvements have landed this week thanks to Andrew N
• Several more assignment fixes have landed this week as well, thank you to Damyon and friends.

Cold numbers
40 issues were accepted, 7 issues this week didn't quite make it. Thats 85%.

Notes:

• We will aim for a Tuesday release next week ahead of the Moodle HQ shutdown
• Changes were introduced last week to add behat compatibility with phantomjs - a headless webkit browser that runs much faster. There are a couple of caveats, but I like it alot!
• Martin posted about prototypes for new features in Moodle 2.7. This a great chance to have input into the direction of Moodle. Please try out the prototypes and fill out the surveys.

Interesting happenings from this weeks run: MDL-43326 - Cannot start a new attempt in Assignment (based on previous one) MDL-34432 - Assignment -teachers can no longer comment inline on online text MDL-42965 - Badge cron code is very inefficient and holds up cron MDL-42931 - Decide Moodle 2.7 requirements and push them to environment.xml

Warm thanks:

This week goes to everyone how has already (or will soon) try out the prototypes and give us feedback.

Regards Damyon

Cold numbers
49 issues made it safetly in, only 2 issues this week didn't quite make it. Nothing was delayed. Thats a very impressive 96% rate.

Notes:

• Christmas is nearly here, as we all enjoy the celebrations as much as you HQ will be closed from Wednesday 25th through Wednesday 1st.
• As you're planning your new features for Moodle 2.7 don't forget to think about phpunit and behat tests to accompany them, it'd make us extra happy.

Interesting happenings from this weeks run:

• MDL-42625 Hardcoded behat waits have been removed, tests should be feeling faster.
• MDL-40058 The add_to_log conversion continues on, wiki was completed this week.
• MDL-42932 Calendar types can now be set at a site level.
• MDL-35024 Numerous functions deprecated in 2.0 were removed.
• Several JS blocks we converted to modules built by shifter.

Warm thanks:

This week goes to Jason Fowler who peer-reviewed 11 of the 49 issues that were made it through integration this week. Big thanks Jason helping to keep the development ball rolling.

Regards Sam

Cold numbers:

59 issues have been successfully integrated with 8 rejected and 1 delayed. That is 86% success.

Notes:

• This week we started to accept improvements and new features into master to become Moodle 2.7.
• We'd like to remind developers about our policy on backporting. Particularly we ask that backporting is not forgotten. At this time we are supporting 2.4.x, 2.5.x, 2.6.x and 2.7dev for general bugfixes. From January 2.4.x will enter into security-only bugfixing, but until this time we require fixes are supplies for 2.4.x too.
• The frontend team at Moodle HQ are coming to the end of their initial planning stage for the 2.7 release and we're eagerly awaiting the publication of future plans to the community!

Peer review:

There are currently 27 issues waiting for peer review - its clear we're falling behind there. Please remember peer reviews if ever you can.

Hot topics:

• MDL-32888 - Search/filtering added to the gradebook
• MDL-40191 - Switching role to student when viewing a hidden resource produces 'Coding error detected...' error
• MDL-42597 - New maintenance mode countdown improvements
• MDL-33618 - A way to hide messages that were configured to never be sent

Warm thanks:

• To Simon Coggins, for tackling some important work, collaborating and helping on the forums - thanks!

ciao Dan

Cold numbers:

28 issues have been successfully integrated with 3 rejected. That is 90% success, hurrah!

Notes:

• This integration round brings to an end our on-sync period and we will begin accepting changes in master for 2.7 next week!
• Over the last few days the integration team having our regular debrief meeting following the 2.6 release. We discussed how the release went, our internal processes, how to improve our work with developers, improve testing & quality of releases. We will spread the outcome of these discusisions over the next few weeks. We always have new things to learn and ways to improve and welcome contructive feedback about our work, so if you have suggestions on how we can improve, please do let us know!

Peer review:

There are currently 17 issues waiting for peer review in areas such as SCORM, grades, CSS and forms. Please help review there if you can.

Hot topics:

• MDL-42992 - SCORM window cannot be resized in IE 9
• MDL-37016 - Problems upgrading to 2.4+ with MySQL sites
• MDL-40741 - Behat acceptance tests updated to be less theme-dependent
• MDL-42985 - The curl rule proxybypass is never applied
• MDL-42508 - Module generators for scorm, imscp and folder

Warm thanks:

• To Barbara Ramiro, our in-house designer working hard to help us make Moodle friendlier, prettier and more elegant, one step at a time. Thanks!

bejois Dan

Cold numbers:

25 issues have been successfully integrated with 4 rejected and 0 delayed. That is 85% success, not bad!

Notes:

• The storm of releases has ended, finally. Congrats everybody!
• For 2-3 weeks we'll be running the named "on-sync" period. Along it, we keep the new 26_STABLE branch and master 100%, with all the versions matching. That way, if any regression / problem is found on upgrade, we can apply the same solution for both branches easily. While we are in this period, any issue causing branches to diverge will be held for consideration once the period is over.
• Any 2.6 regression will get priority treatment, please fill any problem you discover.
• Soon, new proposals for 2.7 will be flooding us, feel free to comment, share, discuss any of them. Links to follow: Roadmap, Future major features.

Hot topics:

• MDL-42884 - Allow to delete users with invalid emails.
• MDL-42504 - Warn the student on quiz auto-save problems.
• MDL-42852 - Blocks disappearing in Clean theme with RTL languages.
• MDL-42808 - Random timezone problems with scheduled backups.
• And some more in courses, themes, scorm, administration...

Warm thanks:

• To the people that helped us running the Moodle 2.6 QA tests, namely (source): Adrian Greeve, AL Rachels, Andrea Bicciolo, Ankit Agarwal, Carina Martinez, Chad Outten, Dan Poltawski, David Monllaó, Eloy Lafuente (stronk7), Farhan Karmali, Fernando Rocha, Frédéric Massart, Guillermo M., Hittesh, Jasmin Klindzic, Javier Sola Aréchaga, Joe Murphy, Joseph Rézeau, Kevin Wiliarty, Lehane Boonzaaier, Lisa Caines, Mary Cooch, Michael de Raadt, Michael E, Mitchell van Gerwen, Natalia Giovagnetti, Nicolas Martignoni, Rajesh Taneja, Rossiani Wijaya, Sakshi Goel, Sam Stegers, Séverin Terrier, Stephen Bourget. Thanks!

Ciao all, stronk7 

Cold numbers:

113 issues have been successfully integrated with 5 rejected and 0 delayed. That is 96% success, wow!

Notes:

• First of all, welcome back, moodle.org. We have been missing you!
• Then, after a very intense week, with everybody helping everywhere, Moodle 2.6rc1 (release candidate 1) has been tagged. And the final 2.6.0 version, built on top of it, will be released this Monday.
• Finally, here it's a link to the Moodle 2.6.0 release testing matrix. It's the first time we run it, there are still some combinations to fix (ignore any non-firefox combination, they are not stable enough) but also shows some aspects where we are lacking testing resources (sqlsrv, windows...). We'll improve there!

Hot topics:

• MDL-42887 - Worth noting this. It applies some "responsive" behavior to all the labels in all the forms for all the themes in Moodle. If you find any glitch with the new behavior, please report it ASAP.
• And lots more everywhere!

Warm thanks:

• To everybody involved with the Moodle 2.6.0 release in any way. You did it!

Ciao all, stronk7 

Cold numbers:

NN issues have been successfully integrated with P rejected and Q delayed. That is R% success, good one!

Notes:

• Various things that cannot be shared here have happened in codebase this week.
• One of them was pretty, pretty interesting.
• The others, too, but in a lower degree. We'll continue informing about all them.
• While the weather is hot here, we are 100% frozen. Only bug fixes (and goal issues) will be allowed to land. Everything else, held.
• Still we aren't beta, but will soon. Plz, don't tell!

Hot topics:

• MDL-0f1db - Replacement to COCOCO and CACACA MANAGGGG pages.
• MDL-ab88c - Improved DELETTT of XYWZ.
• MDL-edaad - Organize KAPUTT handlers in core.
• MDL-876bb - Problems with the PHONEXXX theme (soon to be deleted from core, be warned!).
• MDL-1efa2 - More progresses in that BACKXXX area, big thanks to everybody involved!
• And tons more in other areas I cannot bring more details about. Well, yes.. well, no!

Warm thanks:

• To X.Y. Ng , our Digital Marketing Specialist, for the huge amount of new keys to play (nobody else can deserve it more in a post like this, ROFL).

Ciao all, shhh7 

Whilst I sat in the hammock of development this week - Sam, Marina and Eloy have been churning through the mountain of issues and Sam Hemelryk provided me with this update through the power of telepathy[1]:

Cold numbers: 61 issues made the cut this week with 5 being rejected and only a single issue being delayed. That is a success rate of 92.42%! great job everyone.

Notes: Code freeze is next Monday if you haven't got your code in yet or up for integration review you had better hurry. Because of this time frame many interesting changes were accepted this week.

Hot topics:

• MDL-41888 Quiz statistics back-end has been moved to core, so they can potentially be reused by other activities.
• MDL-41398 Changes to bootstrapbase and clean to better handle upgrades lead to a new layout file for those themes.
• MDL-41848 SCORM can now be added by drag+drop.
• MDL-41882 + MDL-41421 The site and testplan generators were backported this week to the 2.5 branch.
• MDL-41878 When loading YUI modules we now use a shorter path, leading to a reduced number of requests on some pages.
• Several more modules were converted to make use of the new events API.

Warm thanks:

This week warm thanks goes to one of our own Damyon Wiese for his awesome work on the Atto editor and continued efforts (with help from the frontend team) to polish it before release.

[1] If only.

Cold numbers:
51 issues have been successfully integrated this week with 7 rejected and 5 delayed. This is 88% success rate.

Notes:
Lots of interesting improvements are landing now. The issues are mostly very big and integrators work 24 hours a day reviewing (and sometimes rejecting) them. But even 24h is not always enough.

Hot topics:

• MDL-31501 New session infrastructure - file, database and memcached storage. Thanks Petr
• MDL-40903 Persistent cache setting renamed to static acceleration and affects data only. Thanks Sam
• MDL-41580 Allow an imsmanifest.xml file to be selected from a file system repository and allow relative linking. Thanks Dan Marsden

Warm thanks:

• To David Monllao for making Moodle automated testing better and better every day!

Regards,
Marina Glancy

Notes:
Code freeze is just around the corner. Beat the rush, get your new features and improvements up for integration now!

Cold numbers:

78 issues have been successfully integrated with 10 rejected and 2 delayed. That is 89% success.

Notes:

Only one more sprint until code freeze. Time to see what you can slip past the integrators so you can claim you are fixing bugs later

Peer review:

Hot topics:

• MDL-18375 - Multi Calendar support
• MDL-32862 - Links to some 1.9 resource types break after upgrade to 2.2 followed by backup and restore
• MDL-38267 - Submit button stays active after cut-off date in Assignment

Warm thanks:

• To All the bots! who test our code, complain alot and keep us company in the wee hours of the mornings. We pretend we don't have favourites, but we really do: Cibot (laptop) is my favourite.

Cheers, Damyon

Cold numbers:

47 issues have been successfully integrated with 16 rejected and 9 delayed. That is 75% success.

Notes:

Code freeze is now 4 weeks away, its crunch time!

David Monllaó has been working on improving our performance comparison and testing tools for the upcoming release, details of his plan are available in Moodle docs and he requests feedback on this proposal. Part of the work which David has already started includes building upon the work which the Sam Marshall contributed for generating large datasets for testing. Developers should be aware of the improved functionality in the tool_generator which can now generate large courses with large amounts of enrolments for testing.

Peer review:

There are currently 9 issues waiting for peer review, including drag and drop fixes, activity chooser subtypes and course related fixes. It's great to see the number under double figures, but lets get to zero!

Hot topics:

• MDL-38190 - Backup and restore now displays progress
• MDL-41402 - Automate large site generation for testing
• MDL-32690 - Missing 1.9 assignment types no longer prevent course restore
• MDL-41267 - Admin tool subplugin support

Warm thanks:

• To Rajesh Taneja for many bug fixes, collaboration and always being willing to bring alternative points of view to technical debates, thanks!

paalam, Dan

Cold numbers:

40 issues have been successfully integrated with 15 rejected. That is 73% success - up from last week.

Notes:

1 week remaining until the next point releases.

Hot topics:

• MDL-36803 - TinyMCE editor doesn't accept keyboard input on iOS6 after touch event - Note that not all iOS issues with TinyMCE are resolved yet - there is more to do.
• MDL-41098 - Add Atto HTML editor to core (the editor formally known as contenteditable)
• MDL-29004 - Wiki: printerfriendly view don't show / print images uploaded via html-editor.
• MDL-41245 - Multiple issues with plugin installing, upgrading, uninstalling and reinstalling
• MDL-41364 - Appalling apostrophe crime in moodle-core-notification

Warm thanks:

• To Nadav Kavalerchik for long dedication to making Moodle great in RTL languages.

Cheers, Damyon

Cold numbers:

50 issues have been successfully integrated with 23 rejected. That is 68% success - the bar is really high and that is a good thing.

Notes:

2 weeks remaining until the next point releases.

Hot topics:

• MDL-30839 - form validation and error recovery (accessibility)
• MDL-36002 - Move action for activities and course sections are not keyboard accessible with javascript enabled
• MDL-38197 - Automated large-course generation for testing
• MDL-36789 - Corrupt modinfo in course table [problem and a fix]

Warm thanks:

• To all addon authors for greatly enhancing the Moodle platform far beyond the standard installation.

Cheers, Damyon

Cold numbers:

40 issues have been successfully integrated with 9 rejected. That is 82% success.

Notes:

Code freeze is fast approaching with freeze for new features in Moodle 2.6 scheduled on Monday October 7th, just over 1 month away! Your chances of success will be increased by submitting sooner rather than later!

After some consideration, we have decided to retire the MyMobile theme to concentrate our efforts on a responsive approach across all themes, follow MDL-40874 for progress and discussion of this issue and many thanks to John Stabinger for his work on this theme.

Hot topics:

• MDL-31487 - Ensure grade items remain hidden if explicitly hidden via gradebook (regardless of activity state)
• MDL-30001 - WebCT Question Import
• MDL-35934 - File picker improvements on mobile
• MDL-40871 - bulk deletion of entries in the database module

Peer review:

There are currently 13 issues waiting for peer review, including support for non-gregorian calendars, backup and course based improvements. Any help reviewing these issues is always appreciated.

Warm thanks:

• To Sam Marshall for many years of development, input and entertainment on the Moodle forums!

Ciao, Dan

48 issues have been successfully integrated with 6 rejected and 0 delayed. That is 89% success.

• MDL-34785 - fixed a performance issue arising from limit differences.
• MDL-40995 - ongoing work to improve our Minify implementation.
• MDL-40438 - all uses of textlib and collatorlib have now been converted.

• This week goes to everyone who was involved in MDL-31226. Especially to Ruslan who was responsible for creating the final solution. Great work guys and girls!

37 issues have been successfully integrated with 2 rejected and 0 delayed. That is a hug 95% success rate, good job everyone!

• MDL-39814 - Course activity and resource editing icons are now displayed within a drop down menu with larger icons.
• MDL-11270 - MSSQL no longer uses ntext instead using nvarchar(max).
• MDL-39430 - We're now encouraging the use of opcache.
• MDL-40678 - The notification JS module has been split into several sub-modules.
• MDL-40806 - YUI config is now included in JS when in developer mode paving the way for further JS improvements.

Many thanks
Sam.

Cold numbers:

73 issues have been successfully integrated with 12 rejected and 0 delayed. That is 86% success, great!

Notes:

Important!

JQuery libs have been updated to 1.10.2 (for Moodle 2.6 only). Developers should now test their plugins against this updated JQuery library before Moodle 2.6 is released. See http://docs.moodle.org/dev/jQuery for more information on using JQuery in Moodle.

Also...

Another reminder about the upcoming developer meeting on Tuesday, July 30: http://docs.moodle.org/dev/Developer_meeting_July_2013

Hot topics:

• MDL-28019 - Implement file management for HTML-related file areas (Wow - 145 votes!)
• MDL-39985 - Add explicit MariaDB support
• MDL-39846 - Define new event dispatcher behaviour and implement it
• MDL-33563 - Rubric grades could be posted in decimal format
• MDL-23493 - Support for including a font through theme CSS
• MDL-40545 - new $CFG->localcachedir (related to clustering)

And more in areas like: right to left languages, mobile, automated testing and performance.

Warm thanks:

To Petr Škoda, for years and years of hard work. The difference you have made to Moodle is immeasurable.

Cheers - Damyon

Cold numbers:

55 issues have been successfully integrated with 9 rejected and 2 delayed. That is 86% success, great!

Notes:

Don't forget the upcoming developer meeting on Tuesday, July 30: http://docs.moodle.org/dev/Developer_meeting_July_2013

Hot topics:

• MDL-30740 - Microsoft SkyDrive Repo
• MDL-13114 - Include bulk course create and remove with Moodle through the use of CSV files

Warm thanks:

To Jamie Pratt, for adding more quiz tests. Have we mentioned we love tests recently?

Warm welcome:

To X.Y. Ng, our brand new Digital Marketing Specialist

Cheers - Damyon

Cold numbers:

62 issues have been successfully integrated with 15 rejected and 6 delayed. That is 80% success, busy week!

Notes:

• We have been processing deprecations in master for 2.6. This is done early in the cycle to give developers plenty of time to test and fix their code. See the deprecation meta issue for more information: MDL-34434.
• moodleforms can now be tested in unit tests. See MDL-40176 for more information.

Hot topics:

• MDL-31776 - Alternate name fields, to allow Asian languages to flexibly display user names in Chinese characters, local phonetic system or Romanization
• MDL-37565 - Better looking tinymce editor: toggle toolbars between 1 and 3 lines
• MDL-40415 - OPcache support
• MDL-38314 - Manage repositories error when the context of an instance is missing

Warm thanks:

• To Adrian Greeve, for completing his "Alternate name fields" enhancement to Moodle. There is great demand for this feature from some countries and despite the technical challenges, we have arrived at a great result.
• To Marina Glancy, for making an extra effort after being left the last integrator standing this week (we had some sickness and scheduled rotations).

Off topic:

• Do we need a tracker issue for curing influenza?

Cheers - Damyon

Cold numbers:

39 issues have been successfully integrated with 9 rejected and 0 delayed. That is 81% success, wow!

Notes:

• Minor releases (2.2.11, 2.3.8, 2.4.5, 2.5.1) will be released on Monday. See http://docs.moodle.org/dev/Releases for more information.
• Backend team have started implementing the new event system for 2.6.
• A great conversation about cluster support this week has resulted in a new draft spec for more features supporting Moodle running in a clustered environment:

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

  Please add your comments if you have opinions on this great new feature.

Hot topics:

• MDL-39558 - Add backup and restore for badges
• MDL-39754 - Decide Moodle 2.6 requirements and push them to environment.xml
• MDL-39986 - Allow non editing teachers and students with award badge privilege award badges from settings block
• MDL-26943 - Enable sub-plugins in Local plugins

Warm thanks:

• To Yuliya Bozhko, for her fantastic, ongoing work supporting the open badges integration in Moodle.

Cheers, Damyon

Cold numbers:

27 issues have been successfully integrated with 1 rejected and 1 delayed. That is 96% success, wow!

Notes:

• Next week is the last one before upcoming minor releases (2.2.11, 2.3.8, 2.4.5, 2.5.1). Last chance to add any critical fix and to complete the release notes.
• This will be the last release in the 2.2.x branch that will become completely unsupported. The 2.3.x branch will be supported for security issues only. See http://docs.moodle.org/dev/Releases for more information.
• A big number of Moodle HQ developers moved to the Australian Moot, sharing, learning a lot.
• A very good conversion of a core library (textlib) to the new Autoload world (2.6 and upwards) is about to land @ MDL-40299. Take a look to it and feel free to share any thought there. It's the future!

Hot topics:

• MDL-40289 - Fixed some problems with badges permissions.
• MDL-40065 - Bootstrap themes and "sides" clarification.
• MDL-40130 - Categories listing improvements.
• MDL-40033 - Robustness of upload/filepicker/filemanager Behat tests.
• MDL-40305 - PHPUnit testcase autoloader.

Warm thanks:

• To Matthias Baume, Sam Chaffee, Daniele Cordella, Amanda Doughty, Ruslan Kabalin, Brian King, Kyle Temkin, Dmytro Vorona and others for their collaboration with a number of important issues and the constructive way they do so. You rock!

Off topic:

• The Sun has arrived to Spain. A bit later this year, but finally! Something to investigate in the context of MDL-15169.

Ciao all, stronk7 

Cold numbers:

42 issues have been successfully integrated with 14 rejected. That is 75% success

Notes:

We continue to see lots of new features and improvements land for Moodle 2.6 in this early open for development period. The integration team have welcomed our newest member Marina to the integration team over the last few weeks, welcome aboard!

Hot topics:

• MDL-39339 - unziping now ignores system files (like Thumbs.db and __MACOSX)
• MDL-39854 - Automatic class loading support is added to core
• MDL-16982 - custom user fields can now be populated by LDAP or external db
• MDL-37761 - course/resource duplication can now be done without uncessary file IO

Warm thanks:

• To Gareth J Barnard for his enthuiasm, bugfixes and contrib course formats, thanks!

Cheers, Dan

Cold numbers:

62 issues have been successfully integrated with 18 rejected and 5 delayed. That is 78% success

Notes:

The on-sync period is over and this is the first week we started integrating new and exciting features for 2.6. It explains the big number of issues but also explains the bigger number of rejects - there is much more code in new features than in bug fixes and much more difficult to break through integrators' reviews.

Hot topics:

• MDL-39824 - Simplification of themes
• MDL-28558 - Make requirement of country and city profile fields optional
• MDL-37459, MDL-37621 - Allow "locked" and "advanced" checkboxes to be added to any admin setting, use them in Assignment module
• MDL-37968 - Dim the hidden courses In Course overview block

Warm thanks:

• To Sam Hemelryk for making (again) themers life easier!

Cheers, Marina

Cold numbers:

35 issues have been successfully integrated with 3 rejected and 0 delayed. That is 92% success, hurrah!

Notes:

There are a number of different specification discusions going on the Using Moodle forums for changes planned in 2.6, all developers are encouraged to contribute and help us make some sound future frameworks.

We are now at the end of the on sync period. New features arriving in integration will be accepted into master from next week.

Some confusion has arisen about changes for MOODLE_23_STABLE. For clarification, we will continue to accept (and encourage) bugfixes landing to become part of Moodle 2.3.8 until its release on Monday 8th July.

Hot topics:

• MDL-39790 - Badges block can now be added to the course page
• MDL-39588 - Oracle installs now autodetect and autoinstall the missing Moodle support package
• MDL-34085 - Fixes to the core_course_duplicate_course webservice
• MDL-21097 - Permissions for show/hiding activites are now properly respecting capabilites

Warm thanks:

• To Russell Smith for jumping in, engaging and contributing to some very tricky Moodle bugs, thanks and welcome!

beijos! Dan

Cold numbers:

20 issues have been successfully integrated with 2 rejected and 0 delayed. That is 91% success, great!

Notes:

Most HQ devs are still busy planning exciting new features for 2.6 and beyond like events, logs and mobile support, so this was another light integration week.

We still in the on sync period. New features arriving in integration will be held until the end of this period.

Hot topics:

• MDL-39778 - delete_course() includes badges function without including library
• MDL-25031 - Moodle 1.9 Upgrade process fails if pagetype null

Warm thanks:

• To Michael de Raadt for motivating, focussing, challenging, respecting and facilitating (and running unit tests on windows).

Cheers, Damyon

Cold numbers:

88 issues have been successfully integrated with 15 rejected. That is 85% success, not bad considering its the last week of major changes in 2.5!

Notes:

As planned, we have moved to MATURITY_BETA and with a very busy week of changes.

We now have two themes without parents. This means changes affecting CSS will need to be update in both /theme/base/ and /theme/boostrap (see MDL-38906 for more details).

Core now has around 1700 behat tests and now is the time to get familiar with behat, run the behat tests for the areas which you are working and write new tests for features you are creating. Over the next month and a bit our focus will be on creating the best quality release yet, bug fixing and polishing Moodle 2.5, please join us and help in this effort.

Hot topics:

• MDL-38708 - Ability to add images and files to course listings
• MDL-38016 - Boostrap base theme lands in core
• MDL-35073 - Openbadges integration
• MDL-38538 - Quiz server-side autosave
• MDL-38509 - Add-ons intallation from within Moodle
• MDL-38481 - various behat tests implementing QA test functionality
• MDL-37009 - Course listings now output through a renderer

Warm thanks:

• To Marina (Alexandrovna) Glancy, for all her work on improving courses for themes and format authors and for volunteering to maintain formslib. We miss you here in Perth (and so does formslib)!

Ciao! Dan

Cold numbers:

27 issues have been successfully integrated with 5 rejected and 0 delayed. That is 84% success, not bad!

Notes:

It was a light integration week as many devs are involved in planning meetings in the new frontend/backend teams.

We are now in the on sync period. This means no new features will be integrated until for 2.6 until 2.5.1 is release and we split the branches. New features arriving in integration will be held until the end of this period.

Hot topics:

• MDL-39697 - Bootstrapbase $THEME->layouts need 'Maintenance' is missing important options.
• MDL-39673 - Backport MDL-38441 (stylesheet system problems with large sheets in IE)
• MDL-28250 - Incorrect link to Creative Commons

Warm thanks:

• To Mark Nelson, for his continuing awesome work on the forum and certificate modules (and for making the HQ office more entertaining)!

Cheers, Damyon

Cold numbers:

66 issues have been successfully integrated with 6 rejected and 17 delayed. That is 92% success, wow!

Notes:

With just 2 weeks+ for releasing Moodle 2.5 (together with point stable releases), it's time to review all the documentation, release notes, all your issues containing the "dev_docs_required" label and ensure everything is ready for the masses.

Everybody is pushing hard, fixing issues, qa testing functionalities, reviewing code, adding automated tests, tidying themes... 24h/day! What an intense month!

Finally, you can take a look to the notes about yesterday's Developer meeting. Was interesting & fun.

Hot topics:

• MDL-38898 - Bootstrap based themes now supporting D&D.
• MDL-38441 - Better handling of IE CSS limits.
• MDL-38565 - Important fixes to session-based caches.
• MDL-39164 - Import of essay questions from multiple formats fixed.
• And lots more in areas like themes, forms, usability, assignment, course, administration...

Warm thanks:

• To Bas Brands, David Scotson, Mary Evans and everybody else because of the hard work with the new "bootstrap" themes that will lead to new amazingly responsive designs in the future.

Ciao all, stronk7 

Cold numbers:

65 issues have been successfully integrated with 11 rejected. That is 86% success.

Notes:

With the start of QA testing this week, our focus continues to be fixing, polishing and ensuring Moodle 2.5 is the most stable Moodle release yet. Thanks to all our QA testers, we are already have 68% pass rate, with 306 completed QA tests! Great job everyone!

Today, Martin Dougiamas introduced a new process to try and prevent issues being stalled on policy decisisons. We hope that with this new process we should be able to make progresss on tough issues and prevent frustrations arising from this.

Hot topics:

• MDL-39203 - Dropbox repository stopped working after API changes
• MDL-39021 - New theme, simple, based on the bootstrap base
• MDL-35434 - Themes can now use the filepicker in admin settings
• MDL-39063 - Improved interface for connecting to external openbadges backpacks
• MDL-34674 - Use of browser spell check in TinyMCE
• MDL-39087 - All plugin types can now be uninstalled
• MDL-38309 - Tab functions are now converted to a renderer
• MDL-38783 - Lots and lots of automated behat tests!

Warm thanks:

• To Yuliya Bozhko (Totara), for her work integrating openbadges through code, documententation, collaboration and acceptance tests! thanks!

Ciao, Dan

Cold numbers:

79 issues have been successfully integrated with 13 rejected and 2 delayed. That is 86% success, yay!

Notes:

Already running the continuous period, until May 13th, were we'll be releasing the new Moodle 2.5 together with minor releases of current stable versions. Everything is continuous these days, fixing, integrating, testing, discussing... a really intense and funny period.

Also, a new QA cycle is about to begin, with Automated Tests taking the responsibility about to verify everything is working as expected. Human intervention will still be necessary, but aiming to get (near) 100% automated coverage for next releases.

Finally, a new goal has been reached this week, and current 2.5 beta+ is passing unit tests for all database drivers, first time ever. Indeed that will lead to better and more reliable testing (unit tests, integration, acceptance...). More coming...

Hot topics:

• MDL-38541 - Upgrade problems using rebuild_course_cache().
• MDL-38935 - Quiz auto save working for essay questions.
• MDL-38973 - Reattempts on blind-marking assignments fixed.
• MDL-38634 - Display multiple folder contents in course pages working.
• And lots more in areas like tests, xmldb/database, assignments, questions, enrolments...

Warm thanks:

• To Adrian Greeve , for his continuous effort in all sort of annoying and important issues. Great work!

Ciao all, stronk7 

Cold numbers:

59 issues have been successfully integrated with 9 rejected and 0 delayed. That is 87% success, 3rd week in a row, (it's not a fluke)!

Notes:

Only 1 week to code freeze! (Read faster, you could be coding).

Hot topics:

• MDL-38542 - Short answer questions don't handle zeros with wild cards well when "0" is given by a student.
• MDL-38450 - Warnings on upgrade from 2.2.7 to 2.2.8
• MDL-38215 - Error on workshop using Oracle
• MDL-36395 - Search for users has max of 100 results
• And lots more in areas like libraries, webservices, functional tests, caches, forms, quiz, glossary...

Warm thanks:

• To all our themers, for their hard work making moodle look so good!

Thanks all!

- Damyon

Cold numbers:

61 issues have been successfully integrated with 3 rejected and 4 delayed. That is 95% success, awesome! Notes: April 1 for code freeze for 2.5 (no it's not a joke!). Also remember - it's only a freeze for new features not bug fixes.

Hot topics:

MDL-25631 Course Import does not import Legacy Course Files (50 votes)
MDL-15727 Include jQuery library in Moodle core
MDL-37033 Decide Moodle 2.5 requirements and push them to environment.xml

And lots more in areas like acessibility, forms, renderers, javascript...

Warm thanks: To David Monllaó for his ongoing work on behat (it really is cool)

Dont eat too many chocolate eggs!

- Damyon

Cold numbers:

28 issues have been successfully integrated with 4 rejected and 0 delayed. That is 87% success, 2nd week in a row, yay!

Notes:

2w to code freeze, 3w to QA testing cycle to start and just 9w to release Moodle 2.5, c'mon!

Brains up, MDL-37033 is still unresolved! We need it landing ASAP to all supported branches.

yui, yui-modules, shifter, jshint, jquery, ajax.. discussions/ideas all over the place... will we rename some beloved platform to Joodle? Impressing stuff!

Hot topics:

• MDL-38303 - Problem with session caches when switching of user.
• MDL-35716 - New performance page about settings affecting throughput.
• MDL-33424 - Problems restoring images from 1.9 backups.
• MDL-38337 - Quizzes now observing their maxgrade global default.
• And lots more in areas like libraries, course, functional tests, administration, quiz, lesson...

Warm thanks:

• To Andreas Grabs, the Feedback activity maintainer for his continued work and dedication. Great work!

Ciao all, stronk7 

Cold numbers:

72 issues have been successfully integrated with 11 rejected and 0 delayed. That is 87% success, very good one!

Notes:

Important: Everybody running Moodle 2.3.4+ with versions between 2012062504.08 and 2012062504.12 is highly encouraged to upgrade to latest version available (2012062504.13 or newer). MDL-37939 introduced one regression that was fixed by MDL-38173, but introducing another regression, finally fixed by MDL-38378.

Unluckily all the regressions, especially the last one, escaped all our eagle-eyes, both human an cybernetic. Will try to avoid the same to happen in the future. Many thanks to Gareth Barnard for his promptly report and fix.

Note the problem-free Moodle 2.3.4+ version 2012062504.13 recommended above is being built right now and should be available everywhere in a couple of hours.

With this integration cycle over, everything is in place for releasing Moodle 2.2.8, 2.3.5 and 2.4.2 next Monday, thanks everybody!

Once published we'll start a 2-months countdown for Moodle 2.5, that's 3 weeks for code freeze, gogogo! 

Hot topics:

• MDL-38149 - AJAX grading problem in activities with no grades.
• MDL-38165 - Caches purging problems.
• MDL-38101 - Problems with manual completion.
• MDL-37127 - Migrate to shifter for YUI deployment. Worth reading!
• And lots more in areas like courses, repositories, testing, navigation, workshop...

Warm thanks:

• To Anthony Borrow, our Contrib/Add-on Coordinator, for his continuous collaboration with Moodle since... ever. Awesome, dude!

Ciao all, stronk7 

Cold numbers:

39 issues have been successfully integrated with 3 rejected and 0 delayed. That is 93% success, near perfection, congrats!

Notes:

Next week, Sam and Aparup will be back to integration, once their 1-month integration leave has ended, welcome! At the same time, Dan will start his leave, enjoy! (note that there is 1 leave vacant for March, anyone?).

Next week is the last integration cycle before releasing Moodle 2.2.8, 2.3.5 and 2.4.2 (due March 11th). So it will be an intense cycle because, apart from the normal issues, we'll need to sort out and test all the security stuff.

Recently, core has passed the 500k NCLOC (non-comment lines of code) mark, that excluding all the 3rd part libraries bundled with Moodle, that's a lot!

In the funny side, and about how all we can be turning and turning for ages around the smallest detail imaginable (aka "bikeshedding"), take a look to CONTRIB-4142, part of some ongoing tasks to release a new codechecker version soon.

Hot topics:

• MDL-38110 - Bad interactions between the MUC and unit tests.
• MDL-37792 - Wrong user conditions for some resources.
• MDL-35175 - Lesson attempts not shown if using groupings.
• MDL-35641 - Backport flowplayer to Moodle 2.3.x
• MDL-38225 - Incorrect links to entries in database module (1.9.x).
• And lots more in areas like assignments, web services, performance, files, caching...

Warm thanks:

• To Martin Dougiamas , we all wouldn't be reading (and writting) these lines, right now, without him!

Ciao all, stronk7 

Cold numbers:

45 issues integrated with 12 rejected and 0 delayed. That is 79% - oh so close!

Notes:

Really want to get over 80 next week!

Hot Topics:

* MDL-29938 - Webservice core_user_get_users

* MDL-31983 - Include Reports Under Settings block -> Course administration

* MDL-34800 - Turning AJAX on in Grader Report causes update button to disappear

* And more in areas like Assignment, Questions and Comments

Warm thanks:

* Bradley Shende for getting Martin up and dancing this week (and keeping us amused):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=3FhrMkmPW4k

Cheers, Damyon

Cold numbers:

40 issues integrated with 11 rejected and 0 delayed. That is 78% - lets get it over 80 next week.

Notes:

Behat is working nicely on our continuous integration server now (thanks to David for some fixes this week), make sure you don't break the behat tests!

Hot Topics:

* MDL-30637 - Simplify moodle forms

* MDL-35819 - Rewrite help popup to use moodle-core-notification and restyle

* MDL-5875 - Please show word count to teachers and students on forum posts

* MDL-34137 - Offer mod_label as an option when drag/dropping media mime-types

* And more in areas like Backup/Restore, Automated Testing and AJAX and Javascript.

Warm thanks:

* Joseph Rézeau for taking on some mforms fixes this week.

Cheers, Damyon

Cold numbers:

38 issues integrated with 12 rejected and 0 delayed. That is 76% - down a bit from last week.

Notes:

"Short forms" (MDL-30637) is up for integration next week.

Hot Topics:

* MDL-25853 - Calendar month block previous/next links broken on non course pages
* MDL-32652 - Make block drag-drop work throughout Moodle
* And more in areas like Quiz, Assignment, Scorm and Accessibility

Warm thanks:

* David Mudrák for his entertaining testing instructions and workarounds.

Cheers, Damyon

Cold numbers:

63 issues have been successfully integrated with 11 rejected and 0 delayed. That is 85% success, will we beat it ever?

Notes:

After a lot of discussions, seeking alternatives, confronting them, the integration team has published one backporting policy aiming to steady stable branches. Take a look to it and feel free to comment here.

With the "training period" over (peer reviewing furiously, getting in touch with the rest of the team and their - bad - habits...), Damyon Wiese has started his role as integrator, welcome!

Some interesting ideas and changes are expected to land soon; stay tunned about possible changes in the current releases calendar, hack-a-thons and other interesting stuff.

Hot topics:

• MDL-37545 - Fixes for some problems happening on caches init.
• MDL-37734 - Some severe sqlsrv problems with transactions.
• MDL-35611 - Behat integration with Moodle landed to master.
• MDL-37640 - Zip problems under windows.
• And lots more in areas like unit tests, themes, questions, database, ajax, courses...

Warm thanks:

• To Matteo Scaramuccia, for his interest and collaboration in the forums, in the tracker along the past years, thanks man!

Ciao all, stronk7 

Cold numbers:

61 issues have been successfully integrated with 11 rejected and 5 delayed. That is 85% success, not bad, but still...

Notes:

After all the QAs and major and minor releases, we are back to normal, peace & calm!

But there is not much time to relax, we are just some days away to finish all the planning for the next 2.5 release and start coding like crazy again. Also, all the regressions found since the 2.4 release are being furiously fixed.

Go, go, DEV and STABLE teams!

Also, we detected that our default configuration to run phpunit tests was ignoring a bunch of unit tests (10 unit tests with 32 test cases and near 700 assertions!). It has been fixed and from now the CI servers will prevent us to miss one unit test anymore.

Hot topics:

• MDL-33652, MDL-37563 - Various upgrade problems.
• MDL-37577 - Fix, for speed, some massive quiz queries.
• MDL-36757 - Better handling of hidden grades.
• MDL-35816 - Progress about various accessibility issues.
• And lots more in areas like administration, assignments, questions, calendar, lessons...

Warm thanks:

• To all our parents, for creating and educating us. This Community wouldn't be the same without their help on that.

Ciao all, stronk7 

Cold numbers:

90 issues have been successfully integrated with 9 rejected. That is 83% success, hurrah!

Since the last update, 547 issues were integrated, CVS was finally retired and Moodle 2.4 was released on schedule! Apologies for the interuption in service, we were kept busy!

Notes:

We welcome a new member to the integration team - Damyon Wiese, who will be rejecting an issue near you soon!

At the most recent integration team meeting we agreed to move towards a stricter policy on backports. We want to be more consistent and reduce uncessary regressions. In the general case, only bugfixes will be backported to stable branches, new features and improvements will not unless discussed and voted by integrators.

We politely request the help of developers on testing days by ensuring they pay attention to their isuses in integration. If an issue enters 'problem during testing' then we will either need to revert the changes, clarify with the tester or integrate a new fix for the problem reported. It is extremely helpful if the issue assignee makes absolutely clear on the tracker issue what needs to be done so the integration team do not need to chase them. This will help prevent the integration cycle running too long.

Hot topics:

• MDL-36297, MDL-34344, MDL-34398 - Caching of HTML purifier strings, CFG and grouplib
• MDL-31682, MDL-30070, MDL-37077 - New webservices mod_assign_get_submissions, core_message_xxx_contacts, core_calendar_delete_calendar_events
• MDL-33688 - Add progress indicator to drag and drop file upload in filepicker

Warm thanks:

• To Frédéric Massart, for providing outstanding peer reviews, MDK and Raspberry pi transportation, thanks!

Ciao! Dan

Cold numbers:

52 issues have been successfully integrated with 7 rejected. That is 88% success, hurrah!

Notes:

Code freeze for 2.4 began last Monday, at the start of #moodledev12. During the hackfest, integration and developement was on hiatus for a rare week so all could be involved in planning, discussing and understanding the future developments. Not all actions were carried out, but the week did present the first time for the integration team to gather together in one room!

Hot topics:

• MDL-16660 - Importing of iCal subscriptions to Moodle calendar
• MDL-34399 - Questionlib caching using MUC
• MDL-36145 - YUI 3.7.1 imported
• MDL-35297 - missing upgrade steps for mod_book users upgraded from old contrib versions

Warm thanks:

• To Rex Lorenzo, from UCLA, for the patches, issue reports and taking copious notes at #moodledev12 for future reference, thanks!

Ciao! Dan

Cold numbers:

45 issues have been successfully integrated with 7 rejected and 10 delayed. That is 87% success, hows that for stability, even success stats are stable since last week.

Notes:

Integration loads have been increasing as patch sizes are ramping up towards freeze as well as developers packing for the long flights into perth for the hackfest. Submit all your patches. 

A cold freeze is coming.

Hot topics:

• MDL-25290 - Moodle Universal Cache (MUC) has landed in master. Feedback welcome @ MDL-25290.
• MDL-28980 - Pre-expiration enrolment notification.
• MDL-34794 - Reset course for Assignment as well as other fixes from Damyon Wiese.
• And lots more in multiple areas like Quiz, AJAX(DnD), Authentication, Enrolments, Themes, Unit tests...

Warm thanks:

• To Sam Hemelryk for his work on the MUC as well as all the people who've taken their time to provid valuable feedback to it.

Cheers to all and have a pleasant journey ahead.

* Code freeze is in 7 days time.

(Edited by Dan Poltawski - original submission Monday, 15 October 2012, 10:58 AM)

Cold numbers:

48 issues have been successfully integrated with 7 rejected and 11 delayed. That is 87% success, back to the nice ones, well done!

Notes:

2w4cf, 2w4hf, 4w4qa, 8w4r *

Lesson (personally) learnt: Don't mix multiple searches (manual or filter) in the Moodle Tracker together with bulk actions or you can, for example, end closing, by error, the most voted issues instead of the week's integrated issues. I hope I reopened all the wrongly closed ones, grrr. 

Hot topics:

• MDL-35754 - Problems with quiz popups.
• MDL-35688 - New assignment features leading to problems with its upgrade tool.
• MDL-34894 - Solve some phpunit problems under Windows.
• MDL-34696 - Enrollment improvements for Moodle 2.4
• MDL-35669 - Fixed gravatar integration, recently broken by changes in the service.
• And lots more in multiple areas like quizzes, questions, web services, libraries, themes, groups, accessibility...

Warm thanks:

• To Tim Hunt, from the Open University, UK. He recently passed the 400-mark (of fixed issues under the new development process), and that's something remarkable.

Ciao all, stronk7

* 2 weeks for code freeze... complete it yourself!

Cold numbers:

50 issues have been successfully integrated with 15 rejected and 3 delayed. That is 63% success, continuining our poor run of acceptance rates.

Notes:

This week, the integration team published the integration review guidelines on the dev wiki: Integration Review. This documentation has been long overdue whilst we'd taken the flawed aproach to try and create something perfect, rather than release, iterate and improve. Hopefully the lesson is learned and we can continue to improve this page into something as a useful guidance document for developers.

The integration team discovered some cases of conflciting advice given by integrators this week. Please don't hestiate to feedback to us if this happens (or any other reason). We will endevaour to upload a consistent firmware to integrator brains.

Hot topics:

• MDL-35506 - Postgres transaction rollback behaviour (hotly debated)
• MDL-33431 - Improved workflow usability for online text assignments
• MDL-35379 - Problems with webdav repository when path is '/'
• MDL-35207 - Workshop submission attachment not being upgraded from 1.9 to 2.x
• MDL-35515 - YUI upgraded to 3.7.1
• MDL-35581 - Various RTL fixes

Warm thanks:

• To Paul Charsley (Massey University), for many web service contributions including new assignment related functions which are landing in 2.4.

pvnb

Dan

Cold numbers:

45 issues have been successfully integrated with 12 rejected and 5 delayed. That is 65% success, the statistics are not looking good.

Notes:

This week saw a lot of work in accessibility improvements for Moodle, particularly with improvements to use of html markup for screen readers. We'd love to see more involvement with more accessibility experts to help guide our developments and ensure future developments continue to be as accessible as possible. So please, join the forums, participate on the tracker and collaborate with us to improve Moodle!

Note that we are now three weeks away from code freeze!

Hot topics:

• MDL-32688 - Guest access improvements to mymoodle
• MDL-35244 - RTL fixes for 2.4
• MDL-35153 - Allow WAYFless URLs with Shibboleth authentication
• MDL-35376 - Shortcut/alias not working for Private file repo
• MDL-33166 - Reintroduce a capability to control auto forum subscription emails
• MDL-33982 - Insert/edit embedded media preview fixed

Warm thanks:

• To Greg Kraus, for helping support accessibility improvements with suggestions and advice on improving Moodle.

Dan

Cold numbers:

55 issues have been successfully integrated with 16 rejected and 6 delayed. That is 77% success, same than last week, mmm...

Notes:

This week we have passed the 3000 integrated issues mark since May 2011. That's a lot, yay! Congrats to everybody that helped getting all them reported, triaged, fixed, tested, integrated and documented.

After spreading the last 2-month fixes and improvements with minor Moodle 2.x releases last week, it's time to get air and push hard to get all the new stuff coming for Moodle 2.4. We are just 4 weeks away from code freeze!

Hot topics:

• MDL-32785 - Improve the "hardfreeze" handling in forms.
• MDL-35171 - Problems with the date picker and 31 day months.
• MDL-34338 - Folder access to guest users.
• MDL-34082 - Upgrade error to 2.3 due to typo.
• MDL-30018 - Better handling of question answers on restore.
• MDL-35071 - Redesigned backup & restore for enrol plugins (2.4).
• And lots more in areas like accessibility, web services, assignment, administration, themes...

Warm thanks:

• To Ralf Krause, for his continue support to Moodle, reporting, helping in the Tracker and maintaining the Moodle packages for Mac OS X, tons of thanks!

Ciao all, stronk7 

Cold numbers:

47 issues have been successfully integrated with 14 rejected and 21 delayed. That is 77% success, still under the mean!

Notes:

Special mention about the number of delayed issues this week (21) by the integration team. Along the process we got stuck on various issues (big patches, regressions, imminent releases...) and while we tried hard beyond the official integration days... it was impossible to get more stuff integrated. The team needs to think about all this and be able to sort it out. Apologies!

Already commented in previous rounds... next Monday (September 10th) new minor releases will be available. They include the bug and security fixes, plus some improvements to all supported Moodle versions (2.1.8, 2.2.5 and 2.3.2), and upgrading is always recommended.

About Moodle 1.9.x (under extended support for security issues only - by Catalyst IT), it has been agreed to to stop rolling both weeklies and minor releases if there aren't changes requiring it.

Finally, and related with reliability/connectivity problems happening on moodle.org last week... don't forget to verify your servers are properly configured and tuned. It can be like day and night. 

Hot topics:

• MDL-31295 - Implement support for extended submissions dates.
• MDL-28346 - Problems in backup & restore with missing files.
• MDL-34945 - Fix WebDAV repo for non admin access.
• MDL-34997 - Allow shorten urls in the multimedia filter.
• MDL-34318, MDL-26504 - Proper removal of blog associations and external blog posts.
• MDL-6424 - Ask for confirmation on block deletion.
• And lots more in areas like libraries, repositories, themes, assignments, admin...

Warm thanks:

• To all the people involved and helping from and for the Moodle Community. You rock!
• Kudos to Dan Poltawski for finding and fixing the configuration problems @ moodle.org

Ciao all, stronk7 

Cold numbers:

52 issues have been successfully integrated with 18 rejected and 6 delayed. That is 74% success, we need to improve!

Notes:

Next week integration cycle will be the last one before packaging and releasing Moodle 1.9.20 and 2.1.8 (only security fixes), and also 2.2.5 and 2.3.2 (fully supported).

Some interesting stuff is happening behind the scenes, that will debut with Moodle 2.4 later this year. Time runs so, the sooner things land, the better. Code freeze is planned for early November. And the release, on month later.

It's important to take a look to the development documentation that you need to complete, to allow everybody to know how to play with your awesome code and APIs. Please, do it with the care you would expect from other Developers.

Today, for some hours, moodle.org has been kaput, down, unreachable, dead. 

The cause for such a disaster, discovered after a rigorous investigation by the Moodle MiB, has been an elephant that accessed (flying, through the window!) to Moodle HQ and, with the help of 2 dangerous peanuts, threatened everybody, causing the caos and the mass hysteria, until our beloved System Admin, Matt Sharpe, was able to tame it from Sidney, only armed with his remote console. Kudos for Matt! 

Hot topics:

• MDL-25492 - Fixes and improvements to the BB6 question importer.
• MDL-34290 - Important fixes both to file references handling and the Dropbox repository.
• MDL-29598 - Problems on restore with the handling of grade letters.
• MDL-34696 - Improvements to the enrolments subsystem.
• MDL-34192 - Problems grading in the assignment under Oracle.
• And lots more in areas like questions, html editor, courses, assignments, libraries, navigation...

Warm thanks:

• To Jean-Michel Vedrine for his great collaboration fixing and improving various problems with question formats. 
• To Damyon Wiese and Raymond Antonio (from Moodle Partner NetSpot) for their continue work fixing and polishing the new assignment module. 
  
• To everybody that has been involved with the GSOC 2012, mentors, students, ... big thanks! 

Ciao all, stronk7 

Cold numbers:

58 issues have been successfully integrated with 13 rejected and 3 delayed. That is 82% success, back to nice levels!

Notes:

Surprisingly, we all forgot the Developer Meeting, initially scheduled for last Tuesday, it has been moved to August 28th. Apologies!

After last week's landing of TintMCE as a better Moodle plugin, lots of things are being created in that area to support custom extensions and other customizations.

In only two weeks (September 10th), new Moodle minor releases will be packaged and spread everywhere, so it's time to review where we are and what's missing for that date.

Hot topics:

• MDL-34872 - Backup fails with deleted users in course.
• MDL-34444 - Hide links to restricted sections.
• MDL-32759 - Warn when changing assignment max grades.
• MDL-34738 - Blackboard question import fixed.
• MDL-34959 - Move to GoogleMaps API v3.
• And lots more in multiple areas like administration, backup, questions, course, unit tests, enrolments, blocks...

Warm thanks:

• To Petr Škoda (skodak), for his 516 fixed issues.
• To Rajesh Taneja, for his 302 tested issues.
• To Sam Hemelryk, for his 1031 integrated issues.

(all numbers since we began with the new development process 15 months ago)

Ciao all, stronk7 

Cold numbers:

37 issues have been successfully integrated with 12 rejected and 4 delayed. That is 75% success, we need to be back in the eighties asap!

Notes:

This week two important libraries have been upgraded and reorganized in master, becoming the first step towards more interesting changes. They are TinyMCE 3.6.0 (MDL-34875) and Yui 2in3 (MDL-34741). Both aiming to better separation between their upstream versions and our particular customizations. Some good documentation for developers should land soon about them and their implications.

Can you imagine one Moodle release without any Yui2 dependency? Or developing your own plugins for TinyMCE? Yay!

Hot topics:

• MDL-34583, MDL-34840, MDL-34782 - Various upgrade problems.
• MDL-25347 - Better control of blog associations with courses and activities.
• MDL-33337 - Continue moving all the uses in core to the new CSV class.
• MDL-34793 - Grading assignments though the gradebook fixes.
• MDL-34728 - Allow complexer JS disableIf interactions to work.
• MDL-34783 - Incomplete query leading to slow performance of the my/ page. 
• And lots more in multiple areas like themes, scorm, repositories, questions, plagiarism, unit tests...

Warm thanks:

• To Mary Cooch, our Documentation Fairy, for her competence and patience creating and tidying tons of information every day.
• To Paul Nicholls and Henning Bostelmann for their continuous effort, always reporting, suggesting, fixing... thanks!

Ciao all, stronk7 

Cold numbers:

55 issues have been successfully integrated with 16 rejected and 9 delayed. That is 77% success, not bad, but can improve.

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Notes:

While furiously bug fixing, aiming to next point releases in one month (9th Sept), multiple inter-version cleanups are happening behind the scenes (dropping old tables and columns, moving deprecated stuff to newer counterparts...).

Also, soon, we all should start reading and discussing drafts for the different projects from the Moodle Roadmap to be included in next major version (Moodle 2.4, due December 2012).

Finally 2 little suggestions, dear developers:

- Use the excellent support for phpunit available since Moodle 2.3 and try to incorporate it to your development cycle (from design to testing).

- Share, participate, enjoy, learn @ the forums. They are full of good ideas, help requests and a lot of people loving Moodle (and some trolls too, they are funny).

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Hot topics:

• MDL-34701 - YUI updated to 3.6.0
• MDL-34685 - Allow auth plugins to provide custom signup forms.
• MDL-22663 - Fix the WebDAV repository to show files properly.
• MDL-34711 - Fix single discussion forums (broken recently).
• MDL-28486 - Problems using YouTube and Vimeo videos under https.
• And lots more in multiple areas like formslib, accessibility, wiki, enrolments, themes, quiz, gradebook...

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Warm thanks:

• To all the people that each Wednesday helps with the task of testing all the bug-fixes, checking that everything works as expected. Rarely recognized, often tedious but, indeed, mission critical. Many, many thanks to all you!
  
  (from the Tracker and by first name: Adrian Greeve, Andrew Davis, Andrew Nicols, Ankit Agarwal, Anthony Borrow, Aparup Banerjee, Dan Marsden, Dan Poltawski, David Monllaó, David Mudrak, Dongsheng Cai, Frédéric Massart, Gerard Caulfield, Glenn Ansley, Helen Foster, Jason Fowler, Jerome Mouneyrac, Marina Glancy, Martin Dougiamas, Marty, Michael de Raadt, Petr Škoda (skodak), Rajesh Taneja, Rossiani Wijaya, Sam Hemelryk, Tim Barker, Tim Hunt).

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