Dear Developers!
As announced at the ILIAS Development Conference in Aachen, the first
strategy paper of the Technical Board is finalized and available here:
http://www.ilias.de/docu/goto_docu_file_5585_download.html
Please review the document, you are cordially invited to take part in
the discussion about it. We have set up a corresponding forum thread for
your remarks and critique:
http://www.ilias.de/docu/goto_docu_frm_5386_4303.html
Best regards,
Michael Jansen
on behalf of the ILIAS e.V. and the Technical Board
Dear ILIAS-Developers!
With the introduction of the Continuous-Integration-Server [1] to our
development process, automated testing gets more traction in the ILIAS
development. In our strategy paper [2] we, the Technical Board of the
ILIAS Society, explicitly set the goal, that unit tests start to become
a requirement for code in ILIAS.
We therefore want to find out what the current state of the art for
automated testing is in our community and thus need your help. We also
want to find out if and where you have common requirements for
facilities to help you write unit tests.
I therefore want to invite you all to a skype session. Please take part
in this doodle [3] to help me find a date for that session.
[1] http://ci.ilias.de
[2] http://www.ilias.de/docu/goto_docu_file_5585_download.html
[3] http://doodle.com/poll/qehnsbt496hgdfvt
Best regards!
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Richard Klees
on behalf of the Technical Board of the ILIAS Society
and also
Lead Developer Qualifizierungsmanagement
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CaT Concepts and Training GmbH
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50969 Köln
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Mail: richard.klees(a)concepts-and-training.de
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Geschäftsführung:
Sven Kapust, Gerald Konrad, Alexandra Oehlke,
Sandra Röbbelen, Volker Röbbelen, Denis Witt
Amtsgericht Köln HRB 57804
Ust-ID-Nr.: DE 814694228
Sitz: Köln
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Dear maintainers of ILIAS components,
I would like to ask you to update the status of your features scheduled for 5.3 until end of the week. This would allow me to give a correct overview over all scheduled and funded features for 5.3. at the upcoming ILIAS development conference in Aachen. This is important especially for those features for which a contract has been settled or that are already in development. If your features are already up-to-date I would like to thank you very much for your support.
And if there a features on the list ‚Release 5.3‘ or on the list ‚Scheduled for 5.3‘ that won’t make it into 5.3 but are planned for 5.4 now, please change the metadata accordingly. A new tag „Suggested for 5.4“ has been introduced today. This will avoid that such feature requests are set automatically to ‚Not scheduled yet‘ when the first beta version of 5.3 has been published.
Thank you very much and kind regards,
Matthias
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Matthias Kunkel
ILIAS Product Manager
General Manager ILIAS open source e-Learning e.V.
Office:
Ebertplatz 14-16 • D-50668 Koeln
www.ilias.de <http://www.ilias.de/>
verein(a)ilias.de <mailto:verein@ilias.de>
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Hello!
The workshop ‚Reminder Service‘, see http://www.ilias.de/docu/goto_docu_dcl_5341_2329.html <http://www.ilias.de/docu/goto_docu_dcl_5341_2329.html>, has been postponed due to open conceptual questions. A new date will be announced in the data collection (see link above) and in the Jour Fixe minutes.
Kind regards,
Matthias Kunkel
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Matthias Kunkel
ILIAS Product Manager
General Manager ILIAS open source e-Learning e.V.
Office:
Ebertplatz 14-16 • D-50668 Koeln
www.ilias.de <http://www.ilias.de/>
verein(a)ilias.de <mailto:verein@ilias.de>
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Dear Developers!
I stumble upon this little game about cross side scripting (XSS) exploits:
http://xss-game.appspot.com
If you have a little time and want to learn how XSS may work I suggest
you have a look.
XSS exploits are a serious issue that allow the stealing of passwords
and other harmful actions that may also affect your code in ILIAS.
Knowing how they work is the first step to prevent them.
And the game is fun as well =)
I also opened a thread in our forum for futher discussion:
http://www.ilias.de/docu/goto_docu_frm_5386_4226.html
Best regards!
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Richard Klees
Member of the Technical Board of the ILIAS Society
and also:
Lead Developer Qualifizierungsmanagement
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CaT Concepts and Training GmbH
Vorgebirgstraße 338
50969 Köln
Fon: +49 (0)221 / 46 75 76 - 56
Mobil: +49 (0)178 / 49 04 598
Fax: +49 (0)221 / 46 75 76 - 09
Mail: richard.klees(a)concepts-and-training.de
Web: http://www.concepts-and-training.de
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Geschäftsführung:
Sven Kapust, Gerald Konrad, Alexandra Oehlke,
Sandra Röbbelen, Volker Röbbelen, Denis Witt
Amtsgericht Köln HRB 57804
Ust-ID-Nr.: DE 814694228
Sitz: Köln
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Dear developers,
Today, ILIAS 5.2. has reached 98% of passed test cases. So we can hold
the release date for 5.2.0 and publish this first stable release of 5.2
tomorrow evening.
Please commit your latest bug fixes for 5.2 until tomorrow 6 p.m. CET
and set related test cases to 'retest'. Our SysAdmin Anton Arsenij will
create the new database template, update all languages and create a
5.2.0 release package on GitHub later that evening.
With the release of 5.2.0 we also will create a release branch for 5.2
and open the trunk for development of 5.3. Anton will send a
notification to this list when the branch has been made and the trunk is
open again.
Thanks to all of you who contributed to 5.2. You all made a really good
job. And last but not least - ILIAS 5.2 is PHP 7 compliant!
Kind regards,
Matthias
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Matthias Kunkel
ILIAS-Produktmanager
Geschäftsführer ILIAS open source e-Learning e.V.
Ebertplatz 14-16 • D-50668 Köln
www.ilias.de
kunkel(a)ilias.de
verein(a)ilias.de
