#mahara-dev Meeting

Meeting started by aarow_laptop at 08:01:09 UTC (full logs).

Meeting summary

    1. anitsirk is Kristina Hoeppner, Catalyst IT, Wellington, NZ (anitsirk, 08:02:26)
    2. dobedobedoh is Andrew Nicols, Moodle Pty Ltd, Perth, Australia. (dobedobedoh, 08:02:33)
    3. sonn_ is Son Nguyen, Catalyst IT, Welllington, NZ (sonn_, 08:02:35)
    4. anzeljg is Gregor Anželj, developer and translator, Ljubljana, Slovenia (anzeljg, 08:02:40)
    5. aarow_laptop is Aaron Wells, Catalyst IT in Wellington (aarow_laptop, 08:02:50)
    6. mingard is Jono Mingard, newly of Catalyst IT, Wellington, NZ (mingard, 08:02:53)
    7. robertl_ is Robert Lyon, developer, Catalyst IT, Wellington, NZ (robertl_, 08:03:23)
    8. #me is Tobias Zeuch, developer at the KIT, Karlsruhe, Germany (tobiasz, 08:03:53)
    9. /me is Tobias Zeuch, developer at the KIT, Karlsruhe, Germany (tobiasz, 08:04:01)
    10. ghada is Ghada El-Zoghbi, developer, Catalyst IT, Sydney, Aus (ghada, 08:04:15)
    11. tobiasz is Tobias Zeuch, developer at the KIT, Karlsruhe, Germany (tobiasz, 08:04:18)

  2. Items from last meeting: The "Choose a skin" contest (aarow_laptop, 08:06:28)
    1. The contest was a success at locating bugs during the RC stage, and raising interest in skins (aarow_laptop, 08:11:05)
    2. One reported oversight is the inability to set the color of the topnav (aarow_laptop, 08:11:30)
    3. https://wiki.mahara.org/index.php/Page_skins (aarow_laptop, 08:12:42)
    4. we've set up a skins sharing page on the wiki: https://wiki.mahara.org/index.php/Page_skins (aarow_laptop, 08:13:09)

  3. Dropping support for MySQL 5.1, as of Mahara 1.9 (aarow_laptop, 08:14:52)
    1. http://packages.debian.org/wheezy/mysql-server (dobedobedoh, 08:17:59)
    2. http://mirror.centos.org/centos/6/os/x86_64/Packages/ (dobedobedoh, 08:18:57)
    3. https://wiki.mahara.org/index.php/System_Administrator%27s_Guide/Requirements (robertl_, 08:19:58)
    4. ACTION: We should get a look at which OS's & versions we'll be cutting off if we drop support for 5.1 (anitsirk, 08:29:01)
    5. ACTION: also, note that if we can specify 5.1.6 at least, we'll make things easier for ourselves (aarow_laptop, 08:31:11)

  4. Plans & priorities for Mahara 1.9 (aarow_laptop, 08:31:36)
    1. ACTION: sonn_ will look at which OS's & versions we'll be cutting off if we drop support for 5.1. (anitsirk, 08:32:47)

  5. Plans & priorities for Mahara 1.9 (aarow_laptop, 08:33:18)
    1. It's not looking to be as big and exciting of a release as 1.8 (aarow_laptop, 08:33:47)
    2. We've got mingard working on accessibility (aarow_laptop, 08:34:36)
    3. And I'd really like to upstream the improvements to sent messages and notifications being developed by tobiasz (aarow_laptop, 08:35:29)
    4. Automated test, would be great, but outlook uncertain at the moment (aarow_laptop, 08:48:42)
    5. extending mahara with tests (unit tests but also behat) is high on the wishlist as it would facilitate regression testing, compatibility of new code etc. (anitsirk, 08:56:14)

  6. Features funded by Arnes which could go into 1.9 (aarow_laptop, 08:59:20)
    1. IDEA: The idea is to take anzeljg's "Progress bar" plugin, which has static set of artefacts that it observes and based on those artefacts it alculates the Profile completeness. The plugin could be extended in a way to implement page/dashboard for institution admins which would list all available artefacts and the admins would select which artefacts should count towards Profile completeness for their institution. (anitsirk, 09:03:33)
    2. the proof-of-concept around the progress bar plugin and a screenshot can be seen in the Mahara Newsletter, October 2013 https://mahara.org/view/artefact.php?artefact=292431&view=36871 (anitsirk, 09:08:02)
    3. IDEA: Add an interface for site & instititution admins to customize the default dashboard page (aarow_laptop, 09:16:34)
    4. IDEA: Put the profile progress into a non-Block similar to homeinfo (aarow_laptop, 09:16:43)
    5. IDEA: "Cookie directive" plugin, possibly merged into core (anitsirk, 09:20:12)
    6. rkabalin is Ruslan Kabalin, Lancaster University, UK. (rkabalin, 09:25:00)
    7. IDEA: Social site addresses in user's profile (anitsirk, 09:30:12)
    8. the wishlist item for the social sites in the profile has been updated: https://bugs.launchpad.net/mahara/+bug/605749 (anitsirk, 09:36:40)
    9. there is a new wishlist item for changes to the "General" tab at https://bugs.launchpad.net/mahara/+bug/1258067 (anitsirk, 09:37:01)
    10. IDEA: for implementing more flexibility for adding (new) social sites: the advantage to doing something like the iframe page, is that it provides a bit more polish and consistency to the experience. You'd have the admins enter a list of social network sites, potentially define a URL template for each one, and specify whether they want a freetext "Other" option (anitsirk, 09:53:47)
    11. IDEA: (anitsirk, 09:54:04)
    12. IDEA: Adding functionality to place comment/feedback on each individual block on a page (anitsirk, 09:54:08)
    13. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1037531 for additional information from other users for comment / feedback improvements (anitsirk, 10:10:34)
    14. ACTION: dajan to gather some information from tutors and ePortfolio assessors to find out their needs in this area (aarow_laptop, 10:17:22)
    15. robertl updated the release schedule at https://wiki.mahara.org/index.php/6MonthlyCycle (anitsirk, 10:19:06)

  7. Next meeting & chair (aarow_laptop, 10:21:06)
    1. anzeljg will chair the 40th Mahara developer meeting on 23 January at 8:00 UTC. See http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=30th+Mahara+dev+meeting&iso=20130123T08 for the time zone conversion (anitsirk, 10:36:13)
    2. the deadline for the next mahara newsletter will be 24 december 2013. if you have an article to include, please send the 100-150 words to newsletter@mahara.org (anitsirk, 10:40:28)


Meeting ended at 10:43:29 UTC (full logs).

Action items

  1. We should get a look at which OS's & versions we'll be cutting off if we drop support for 5.1
  2. also, note that if we can specify 5.1.6 at least, we'll make things easier for ourselves
  3. sonn_ will look at which OS's & versions we'll be cutting off if we drop support for 5.1.
  4. dajan to gather some information from tutors and ePortfolio assessors to find out their needs in this area


Action items, by person

  1. dajan
    1. dajan to gather some information from tutors and ePortfolio assessors to find out their needs in this area
  2. sonn_
    1. sonn_ will look at which OS's & versions we'll be cutting off if we drop support for 5.1.
  3. UNASSIGNED
    1. We should get a look at which OS's & versions we'll be cutting off if we drop support for 5.1
    2. also, note that if we can specify 5.1.6 at least, we'll make things easier for ourselves


People present (lines said)

  1. aarow_laptop (199)
  2. anitsirk (128)
  3. anzeljg (126)
  4. mingard (33)
  5. dobedobedoh (33)
  6. dajan (32)
  7. robertl_ (31)
  8. ghada (22)
  9. tobiasz (13)
  10. sonn_ (8)
  11. aarow_laptop_ (8)
  12. rkabalin (4)
  13. maharameet (4)


Generated by MeetBot 0.1.4.