CDM 2020 03

openEQUELLA Community Dev Meeting March, 2020

2020-03-05 (US) / 2020-03-06 (AU)

List of attendees:

Review Action Items
Specific Topics (Please add to below list, or email the equella dev list to have an item added)
Discuss code enhancements since last CDM
Review tech choices, code structures, direction
Any tech debt concerns
Open PRs to discuss
Q&A
Assign next Chair and Scribe

CB: is talking with Ian Dolphin from Apereo to shutdown the unused Open Equella Slack Channel
CB: has finished a pull request documenting known working environments for OpenEquella
NC: is continuing work on installation guide
CB will send out an update on BlackBoard timeline to mailing list
NC: will test D2L and Moodle in the coming weeks
CB: is continuing to look into same site cookie handling in the Blackboard integration
- Issue may be related to EBI tool
IS: briefly reviewed renovate bot integration, it started working again without changes
IS: will setup shared account for Travis CI to use for releases
CB: reviewed security audits, Java version was not flagged
CB: Axiom cannot be updated without web services, web services is being sunsetted.
CB: Working on a document on committer ship guidelines for oEQ organization
CB: The checkfiles task has been helpful for North American adopters, at some point enable by default in oEQ.
CB: Researching governance

IS: A version 1.1 of moodle-mod for oEQ with some fixes these are tracked in the milestones https://github.com/openequella/moodle-mod_openEQUELLA/milestone/2
- Major add will be the Moodle Privacy API, to help Moodle understand the GDPR compliance of oEQ
CB: A new REST version of oEQ Blackboard is ready for testing
- More features will be added over time
CB/IS: GhostCat CVE, related to Tomcat with AJP, should not affect openEquella since most adopters who do not use AJP
- current release candidate has updated Tomcat and removes secret requirement
- there are some remaining quirks with Apache not connecting as expected
- NC: secret is still recommended, including it may help
- NC: we continue to recommend adopters avoid AJP
- IS: openEquella does not use AJP by default
- IS: The default port/host binding may have changed
- CB: will continue to investigate
CB: Release of version 2020.1.0
- Will be released Monday US time around noon CST
- IS: Note there is an Australian holiday Monday
IS: with recent release there was trouble getting artifacts out of S3
- Will review AWS release process
- Adding new share release account may help (same as admin console)
CB: Moodle licensing, Apereo has not responded, Ian Dolphin is reaching out to contacts.
CB: When openEquella was open sourced there was a test link tool also open sourced, but has not been used, Unicon has been hosting, tests will be archived to Github, and the server will be turned off.

CB: Be aware Tika updates will be involved, they will require a Spring and Hibernate update
IS: Edelex is looking into moving search into new UI/React
- working to migrate code from PureScript to TypeScript
- Updating settings to include a new search section, with some sub-sections
- Material UI is a major version behind, this version will be updated to latest in the coming weeks
- REST APIs will be updated to be tidier, specifically settings and configuration will be centralized into more defined collection of APIs
- CB: would this include removing scala code from these APIs?
  - IS: the plan is to continue to Scala for these APIs

CF: Will material UI update be backported?
- IS: there is not currently a plan to do this