#mahara-dev: 64th Mahara Developer meeting on 21 March 2018

Meeting started by cecilia at 07:06:03 UTC (full logs).

Meeting summary

    1. anitsirk is Kristina Hoeppner from Catalyst in Wellington, New Zealand (anitsirk, 07:06:35)
    2. cecilia is Cecilia Vela Gurovic, Catalyst Wellington, New Zealand (cecilia, 07:06:40)
    3. robertl is Robert Lyon, Catalyst in Wellington, New Zealand (robertl, 07:06:50)
    4. Guest36158 is Rebecca Blundell from Catalyst Wellington (Guest36158, 07:07:09)
    5. Maria_ is Maria Sorica form Catalyst Eu, UK Brighton (Maria_, 07:07:40)

  1. ToDo items from previous meeting (cecilia, 07:08:39)
    1. there are none (cecilia, 07:09:21)

  2. Mahara 18.04 release (cecilia, 07:09:36)
    1. We are in release candidate phase for Mahara 18.04. See the announcement: (anitsirk, 07:09:42)
    2. https://mahara.org/interaction/forum/topic.php?id=8192 (anitsirk, 07:09:43)
    3. We have a ton of new features in this upcoming release: (anitsirk, 07:09:43)
    4. https://bugs.launchpad.net/mahara/+bugs?field.milestone%3Alist=83189&field.tag=nominatedfeature (anitsirk, 07:09:43)
    5. robertl and i discussed that we'll provide the second release candidate either on Friday or on Monday as we've found a few issues that should be fixed before the .0 release. (anitsirk, 07:11:40)
    6. We are going to release 18.04.0 within the first two weeks of April as planned to give everyone who needs to upgrade time to do so. (anitsirk, 07:12:19)

  3. GDPR update (cecilia, 07:19:49)
    1. The EU GDPR is going into effect on 25 May 2018. We talked about it in the last dev meeting: (anitsirk, 07:19:56)
    2. https://meetbot.mahara.org/mahara-dev/2018/mahara-dev.2018-01-17-07.05.log.html#l-53 (anitsirk, 07:19:57)
    3. since then all the features that we needed to get into this release made it into the release candidate. (anitsirk, 07:19:57)
    4. https://wiki.mahara.org/wiki/Developer_Area/Specifications_in_Development/GDPR_compliance#Must_do_technical_changes (anitsirk, 07:19:57)
    5. You can see a video demoing the features (anitsirk, 07:19:57)
    6. https://youtu.be/LLSvd0lxtjM (anitsirk, 07:19:57)
    7. big thanks go to Maria_, cecilia and robertl for getting all these changes into Mahara! (anitsirk, 07:20:05)

  4. Any other business (cecilia, 07:28:04)
    1. the next Mahara newsletter deadline is 27 March 2018. Please send in any stories to newsletter@mahara.org (anitsirk, 07:28:56)

  5. Next meeting and chair (cecilia, 07:33:02)
    1. https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20180426T07&p1=1440 (anitsirk, 07:47:10)
    2. The 65th Mahara developer meeting will take place on 26 April 2018 at 7:00 UTC. anitsirk will be the chair. (cecilia, 07:49:49)


Meeting ended at 07:52:50 UTC (full logs).

Action items

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  1. anitsirk (56)
  2. cecilia (39)
  3. robertl (14)
  4. Maria_ (13)
  5. rebeccablundell (4)
  6. mahara-meetbot (3)
  7. Guest36158 (1)


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