Developer Area/Developer Meetings/77

Agenda for the 77th Mahara developer meeting on Wednesday. 29 January 2019, 7:30 UTC

We will meet using Meet.Catalyst (a Catalyst staff member will initiate the call).

Our #mahara-dev channel on Freenode IRC will be our backup or in case there are problems with the web conferencing tool and we'll need to chat to resolve it. If you don't have an IRC client, you can join us using your web browser.

• Chair: Cecilia Vela
• Minute taker: Doris Tam

Agenda

1. Items from the last meeting
• Catalyst looking at possibilities of posting audio recordings of meetings online
• Peter using Docker with Selenium to run Behat tests
• Peter testing of trigger patches
• Guillaume: Share plugin documentation with the Catalyst team for review. Best to send it to [email protected].
• Kristina: Ask Cecilia what happens during export when page hasn't been converted yet
2. Mahara 20.04 progress
3. Next meeting and chair
4. Any other business

Minutes

1. Attendees

• Cecilia Vela Gurovic from Catalyst IT in Wellington(meeting chair)
• Doris Tam from Catalyst IT in Wellington (minute taker)
• Ghada El-Zoghbi from Catalyst IT Australia in Sydney
• Gregor Anzelj, Computer Science teacher, Mahara community member working on isolated institutions and portfolio moderation, Slovenia, Europe
• Guillaume Nerzic, independent (HSBC) contribute plugins to Catalyst
• Kristina from Catalyst IT in Wellington
• Rebecca Blundell from Catalyst IT in Wellington
• Robert Lyon from Catalyst IT in Wellington

1. Catalyst looking at possibilities of posting audio recordings of meetings online

          Pushed to next meeting (awaiting Bob's feedback)
   

2. Testing of trigger patchesPushed to next meeting (awaiting Peter)

3. Share plugin documentation with the Catalyst team for review (Guillaume)

   • There is a wiki for a dedicated highlight plugin.
   • Background: He developed a plugin as part of a masters project completed for the University of Birkbeck. London. As part of the project, a lot of design documentation was generated to do plugin development and how it fits into the framework of Mahara.
   • Would like to submit this generated documentation to the Mahara community
   • Generation of a lot of design documentation for creating plugins that could be submitted into the Mahara community. Might put something into Mahara.org.
   • Commented that the first bit of Mahara was alright to understand but then had to unpick and would have appreciated more support documentation.

4. Documentation for writing 3rd party plugins(Gregor)

• Started writing documentation for writing 3rd party plugins.
• TODO: Catalyst to review Guillaume's design documentation.

5. Gridstack: exports and imports (Cecilia)

• Mahara keeps the old layout when exporting page that didn't use Gridstack.
• Upon importing that export, it will be installed and convert to work with Gridstck.

6. Mahara 20.04 progress (Kristina)

   Roadmap - https://wiki.mahara.org/wiki/Roadmap/Mahara_20.04_specific_items

Five areas in 20.04
• Usability improvements
• Language Switcher
• Group labelling for sorting -SWITCH (in testing stage)
• SmartEvidence
• Tech update
• Updating/switching libraries appropriately, keeping up to date
• End support for IE 11
• Mahara Mobile
• 20.04 + feature parity
• Library updates: Gulp, PHP 7.3 -> 7.4 (Rebecca), MySQL
• Evonne is working to consolidate elements to improve consistency in styling
• Improving accessibility
• New features (including usability):
• SAML improvements (auto-assign roles based on IDP, auto-setup of an institution on IDP login
• Default login for auto admin on Mahara site
• PDF exports: comine all exports into one
• Issue resolution
• Infrastructure updates - some already processed:
• Proof of concept for testing in the cloud (Aatharsh, Mahara intern)that allows testers to get set up quickly.
• Manual updated to Python 3 to generate manual files.
• Improvement in the running of Behat in Jenkins to run the entire suite only overnight and process parts of it for more quick and efficient testing

7. Changing 'Users' ->'People'(Kristina)

   Translators: translations may not always be needed as the word doesn't have the same connotations in other languages than English.