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

• Chair: IanS
• Scribe: SamF

List of attendees:

• CB - Chris Beach
• CF - Cath Fitzgerald
• CM - Christian Murphy (Scribe)
• IS - Ian Stevenson (Chair)
• NC - Nick Charles
• P - Penghai

• 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

• Will be doing a Moodle Module 1.1.0 (IS)
• Bb LTI / REST update (CB)
• GhostCat update (CB)
• Releasing 2020.1.0 on Monday US time (CB)
• Please add more

• 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 will create issue relating to Java LTS

• 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

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