Dear developers,

today some interested developers and the TB had a meeting on skype regarding the change in ilTemplate proposed via PR 1184. We came to the following agreements regarding the further steps with the PR:

* We want to keep the proposed copies of ilGlobalTemplate in some components with seemingly special requirements. Maintainers are free to directly extend the new ilGlobalTemplate instead. They need to be aware, that the interface and implementation of ilGlobalTemplate will be subject to grave changes in the next ILIAS-release. Classes extending ilGlobalTemplate thus might break and extending ilGlobalTemplate is at the maintainers risk. * We consider the presence of copies or specialized versions of ilGlobalTemplate an indicator for problems that should be solved by the maintainer of the respective components, e.g. by streamlining their views. The presence of the copies (or extensions) thus should be temporary. Please get in touch with the TB if you have further questions or need advice regarding that matter. * With the PR, the following components get their own copy of ilGlobalTemplate: Blog, COPage, DataCollection, Init, LearningModule, Portfolio, RTE * Currently the maintenance.json in UICore that contains ilTemplate only lists two "implicit maintainers". As announcing oneself as "implicit maintainer" of a component only implies a general willingness to fix bugs in the component, the UICore currently can be considered unmaintained w.r.t. PRs, Features and other changes. Thankfully, Fabian Schmid agreed to be the one taking the responsibility to merge the PR. This will happen when the branch for 5.4. is split from the current trunk. The TB will discuss the further procedure regarding the maintenance of UICore.

Best regards!

[1] https://github.com/ILIAS-eLearning/ILIAS/pull/1184

-- Richard Klees on behalf of the Technical Board of the ILIAS society

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