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4.3 QA testing cycle starts today!

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by Simey Lameze.  

Hello Moodle community.

We’re excited to announce the commencement of our Moodle 4.3 QA cycle,
which kicks off today, September 11th. This quality assurance journey
will continue for four weeks, concluding on the release date on October 9th.

Understanding the QA Cycle
The QA cycle is a pivotal part of our development process. It’s where
our community steps up as testers to rigorously evaluate Moodle’s next version. Your collective effort ensures that Moodle meets the highest
standards of quality, reliability, and usability.

How You Can Contribute
Here’s how you can actively participate and make a significant impact:

  • Exploratory Testing: Dive into the latest Moodle features on our dedicated QA testing site. Experiment, explore, and provide your valuable feedback.

  • Issue Reporting: If you encounter any issues, whether major or minor, please don’t hesitate to share them with us. Your insights are invaluable and directly contribute to Moodle’s improvement. Report these issues directly on the Moodle Tracker.

For comprehensive instructions into the QA testing process, we encourage you to consult the QA testing guide. If have any questions, please post in this forum or join our new Moodle QA Telegram chat room or Moodle QA chat room on Matrix.

Thank you for being an integral part of our testing and QA, together, we can make Moodle 4.3 an exceptional
release. 😊

rubidity-typed gem – “zero-dependency” type machinery for rubidity

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Hello, as a follow up to Rubidity – Ruby for Layer 1 (L1) Contracts with “Off-Chain” Indexer I have published the first “zero-dependency” rubidity gem. Let’s welcome the rubidity-typed gem bundling-up the “zero-dependency” type machinery incl. (frozen) string, address, uint256, contract and more for rubidity for easy (re)use and experiments. It’s still (very) early. I invite you to join the fun and let’s explore and learn together building a type machinery in ruby.

p2k23 Hackathon Report: Jeremy Evans (jeremy@) on Ruby ports cleanup, database progress, and more

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Next up in our reports from the
p2k23 hackathon
is one from Jeremy Evans (jeremy@).
Jeremy writes:

My travel to Dublin started off not so great, with the airline figuring
out they had to replace the copilot’s chair in the cockpit after
everyone had boarded, forcing everyone to deplane and then reboard an
hour later. I ended up getting to Dublin a couple hours later than
scheduled. This was the day before the hackathon started, so thankfully
I didn’t miss any hacking time. After I arrived, I took a brief nap,
then found out where the hackroom was.

Read more…

Breathing life back into a Minitel 1B with the Minimit

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Regular readers will know that I have a lot of love for the French Minitel system and own a couple. In the past I’ve written about using a Minitel 1B as a terminal and replacing the EPROM in a Minitel 2 to run custom firmware. Today I’m going to blog about a project called Minimit. The Minimit is a small, Minitel-shaped box that attaches to the Minitel’s DIN port and brings the Minitel experience back to life. The box contains an ESP32 which talks to the DIN port outputting Minitel-compatible text and graphics. And the graphics and letters appear slowly just as they would have in the 1980s. Minitel is such a fascinating topic and technology – Teletext, but more versatile. I’m so glad people are keeping it alive like this.

Even more merch: new colours, new shirt, and new longsleeve

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Even more merch: new colours, new shirt, and new longsleeve
We’ve got new merch! The first round of merch turned out to be more popular than I thought, so it’s time to shake things up a bit and get some fresh new stuff in the official OSNews merch store. Before we start, if you want the limited edition quote T-shirt or quote mug, you have to be quick – I’ll be removing them from the store somewhere in the coming days, and they’ll never come back. This is your last chance to show the world how awesome Eugenia is. The first new product is by popular demand – a mug with just the OSNews logo, no quote. There’s really nothing to add here – it’s a mug, it holds liquid. Go nuts. Second, I’ve added a few new colour options to the basic logo T-shirt: night sky navy, revolution red, and white sand. They look pretty great. And I saved the best for last: a brand new T-shirt and sweatshirt, with the ASCII OSNews logo I use for our Gemini capsule. Of course, it comes in the only valid colour combination: phosphor green on black. The Gemini T-shirt goes for the same price as the other T-shirts – $29.99 – and is also made of the same organic cotton as the others. The longsleeve Gemini Sweatshirt goes for $39.99, to maintain that roughly $8 of every product sold that goes to OSNews, and is made from an 80/20 ringspun cotton/polyester blend. If I may say so myself – I think these two terminal shirts look stunning, and I’m quite proud of how they turned out. And thanks to everyone who has already bought merch since we launched the store – it means the world to me!