Open Source

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. 😊

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.

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…

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.