Poorly prepared presentation on the kind of things developers and administrators have to worry about for Moodle 2.0

1. Worrying about
Moodle 2.0
Dan Poltawski
dan.poltawski@luns.net.uk

2. Sorry!
• This presentation is totally unprepared
• Lots of questions please!

3. Developers Worry
About
• DB Layer
• DDL - non-XMLDB database schema
• DML - mostly just $DB
• Upgrades
• Backups (TBC)
• File API

4. Users Worry about
• Removal of Journal
• Needs Feedback!
• Removal of LAMS
• Needs Maintainer
• New Wiki/Feedback

5. Administrators Worry
About
root@moodle:/var/lib/moodle/filedir# tree
.
• Files API!
|-- 06
| `-- c2
| `-- 03
| `-- 06c2035f868a84424472eb71ec8ef6187bd35031
|-- 14
| `-- fb
| `-- ba
| `-- 14fbbadfc641a29d3fc52c11fd724199d85e8a81
|-- 22
• Upgrade to Moodle 1.9
| `-- cd
| `-- a2
| `-- 22cda26f4e8e91b72bdee683b3ef5a146b675747
• Broken Plugins Everywhere
• PHP 5.2.8

6. commit d22809acbed668bfc43bf6f07d18e3bf69b4e398
Author: Dan Poltawski <dan.poltawski@luns.net.uk>
Date: Wed Feb 18 21:06:01 2009 +0000
Environment php hack
diff --git a/admin/environment.xml b/admin/environment.xml
index bd51baf..34dc1ce 100644
--- a/admin/environment.xml
+++ b/admin/environment.xml
@@ -227,7 +227,7 @@
<VENDOR name=quot;oraclequot; version=quot;9.0quot; />
<VENDOR name=quot;sqlitequot; version=quot;2.0quot; />
</DATABASE>
- <PHP version=quot;5.2.8quot; level=quot;requiredquot;>
+ <PHP version=quot;5.2.3quot; level=quot;requiredquot;>
</PHP>
<PHP_EXTENSIONS>

7. Developers to
Consider
• Text filters allowed at multiple contexts
• Weblib changes
• Exceptions/OO/PHP5isms
• TBC:
• Enrolment Plug-ins
• Text formats
• Everything else ;)

8. The Good Stuff
• Really easy integration with repositories
• Integration with institutional
repositories?
• Send your content everywhere!
• TinyMCE
• Web Services API

9. • Advice from Penny