[LON-CAPA-dev] Meeting Notes 9-05-2007

[Stuart Peter Raeburn]

9-05-2007 

Ron - bubble validation for multi-line scantron answers
     - parser works for most response types (imageresponse excl.)
A - Discussions with Guy to understand some details better 

Mark - CofEng grants - one to submit
A - CofEng funded grant (CPATH), activities beginning 

Phil - Student user guide -> thedump
 - userguide to be pdf and OpenOffice formats for 2.5
 - correspondence
 - helping Kenney at Case Western
 - organising chemistry collaboration for the dump
A - correspondence
 - lonplot (extend font support) 

Felicia - medschool spreadsheet completed
LC calendar updated with semester dates to 2012
A - BT documentation review
 - feedback on bug 4058
 - fix errors in med school problems using tables
 - rank bugs in advance of future directions meeting
 - expanding LIR offerings 

Stuart
 - dc cloning can clone course based on wild card settings
 - css/html/wording clean-ups in help request screen
 - gnuplot 4.2 rpm on Fedora 7 (Fedoras look easy)
 - search user improvements
 - "begins with" user search
A- username outside constraints
 - filesystem auth to be removed
 - gnuplot 4.2 on dists other than Fedora
 - cleanup MSU users on lon-capa
 - machine maintenance
 - 4400 diagnostics
 - s6 fan
 - cse101 disks
 - start building sandbox cluster 

Guy - 2.5.1 ready
 - Future directions meeting announcement 9/26
 - responseIDs added to information returned to authors for bombs
 - problems with "no answer defined" used in course give a warning
 - blank values in PARM considered uninteresting (ignored).
 - image icons origin switched from 8080 to 443 in cases where browser would
complain
 - HTML page editing caching issues resolved
 - maxima 5.9.1 supported for SLES 9
 - reset times now resets problems in top level sequence
 - division between LON-CAPA page elements and problem itself clarified for
white backgrounds.
A - 2.5.1 release
 - click-on-image in .page
 - course-defined timezones
 - support several levels of undo in CSTR
 - language tags
 - maxima jails
 - line width for gnuplot to 2.5.1 

Gerd - clicker registrations handles multiple registrations for a single
clicker.