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What's coming upin Mahara 15.04?
Aaron Wells (Me)
@AaronTheMad on Twitter
About Catalyst
As seen on Google Street View
Brighton
Riyadh Sydney
Hong Kong Phoenix
Chicago
New York
WellingtonChristchurch
Wellington KaikouraPukerua Bay
There's a nicer one on Level 3
What I see all day
What I should be looking at
15.04
How to count Maharas
1.7, 1.8, 1.9, 1.10, 15.04...
The new versioning scheme
Year Month Version
2015 April 15.04
2015 October 15.10
2016 April 16.04
2016 October 16.10
15.04: A pretty big change
Version Bugs Commits Files changed Lines added
15.04 282 548 2394 234,018
1.10 239 347 2930 206,777
1.9 294 389 933 42,332
1.8 179 299 2,112 114,292
1.7 54 217 520 17,618
15.041.7 1.8 1.9 1.10
New features?
● Not exactly.
SmartEvidence Phase 1: Annotation block
Thanks, University of Canberra!
Behat
© Copyright Talia Carbis, CC BY 2.0, https://www.flickr.com/photos/sunshinetalia/4363524713/Stripes and antennae added by Aaron Wells
Behat: Automated Testing
Feature: Login
@javascript
Scenario: Login
Given I am on homepage
When I fill in "login_username" with "admin"
And I fill in "login_password" with "Password1"
And I press "Login"
Then I should see "Dashboard"
Special Behat Thanks
Jinelle Foley-BarnesMahara Testing Tsar
15.04: Now it's easy!
Public Domain, http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:As_seen_on_TV.svg
It used to be a pain to copy a page
Now it's easy!
It used to be a pain to embed an image in a text field
Now it's easy!
Thanks, Mike Kelly!
It used to be a pain to customize your site's logo globally
Now it's easy!
Did you know Mahara images can have their own feedback?
Did you know how to see an image's feedback?
Now it's easy!
Image feedback
Page feedback
Thanks, New York Institute of Technology!
How do I send a message?
Now it's easy!
Thanks, Tobias Zeuch!
Drag & Drop works on touchscreen
Mahara 1.10 Mahara 15.04
Does [i]anyone[/i] recall [b]BBCode[/b]?
BBCode: slightly easier than HTML
Now it's easy!
Mahara feedback
© Copyright Zorba the Geek, CC BY-SA 2.0, http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/875991
Now it's easy!
Did they update their blogs?
● Now blog entries trigger watchlist notifications (this was just a
straight-up bug)
● And watchlist notifications update the page's “last updated” date
● And you can sort the group pages block by “Last updated”!
© Copyright Cortega9, CC BY-SA 3.0, http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Blog_%281%29.jpg
Now it's easy!
Thanks, SWITCH!
Square thumbnails... but at what cost???
Now it's easy!
Thanks, Holger Manthey!
Faster page loads through AJAX
No more “password1” :(
Thanks Amelia Cordwell, from the Catalyst Open Source Academy!
API changes
© Copyright Microstar, CC BY-SA 3.0, http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Blog_%281%29.jpg
Web services
Public Domain, http://pixabay.com/en/tree-structure-networks-internet-200795/
Web services
Blocks can be ordered!
Public Domain, http://pixabay.com/en/building-blocks-toys-play-abc-123-397143/
Plugins can register menu items
Related projects
Mahara assignment submission plugin for Moodle
Get the new version at the Moodle plugin database: https://moodle.org/plugins/
MaharaDroid 2.0
● Search for “MaharaDroid” in the Google Play store● Or go to https://github.com/MaharaProject/maharadroid
What might the future hold?
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SmartEvidence, Phase 2
Bootstrap CSS Framework
© Copyright Bootstrap contributors, CC BY 3.0, http://getbootstrap.com/
Bootstrap CSS Framework
Bootstrap CSS Framework
Bootstrap CSS Framework
Bootstrap CSS Framework
Pages & Collections list redesign
Your gateway to the Maharaopen-source community:
The Mahara community website:
https://mahara.org
The Mahara wiki:
https://wiki.mahara.org
The Mahara Launchpad project:
http://bugs.launchpad.net/mahara
(but it's usually easier to just link there from mahara.org)
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