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https://moodle.org/mod/bigbluebuttonbn/view.php?id=8596
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Moodle Developer Meeting — Public Chat Summary
Source: BigBlueButton session, moodle.org (id=8596)
Captured: 2026-09-15, 11:26 AM – 12:31 PM (session end)
- Opening (11:26–11:38 AM)
Attendees greeted each other from around world (Japan, Perth, Bavaria, Sabadell, Winterthur, etc.). Andrew Lyons opened as presenter. - Code review / CLR queue discussion (11:40–11:53 AM)
Main topic: delays in Moodle’s code review process.
- Daniel Ziegenberg asked for stats split by “MoodleHQ Dev” vs “community dev” issues.
- Marina Glancy and Alexander Bias flagged CLR (code review queue stage) as where issues get stuck.
- Philipp Memmel argued “average” is misleading — core team issues get reviewed almost instantly, community fixes can wait indefinitely.
- Neill Magill: found issues waiting over a year for review.
- Alexander Bias: wants visibility into queue position (“you are at position x”).
- Marie Achour clarified there’s no formal queue, just work items tagged by status; acknowledged community devs experience it as a queue since they’re blocked waiting.
- Data point: average elapsed time ~66.9 days (Integration path) vs ~64.3 days (CLR path) — roughly similar.
- Philipp referenced a past comment by Tim Hunt (Zurich): problem isn’t prioritization, it’s having a queue at all.
- Side chatter (11:44–11:46 AM)
Audio issue noted — Scott’s mic rubbing/static. - Wrap-up topics (11:58 AM–12:02 PM)
- Don Hinkelman: supportive of folding R&D into HQ dev process rather than separate lab; sees growing role for national Moodle associations (access to government/education funding) — cites Question Bank consortium as a model.
- Luca Bösch: offered contact for Quiz/Question Bank topics (luca.boesch@bfh.ch).
- Adam Jenkins: expects “MAJ” to pick up leadership of a project.
- Communication tone discussion (12:04–12:16 PM)
- – Marcus Green raised the importance of positive tone, citing Mary Cooch (former HQ employee) as a model. Well received (9× 👍).
- Alexander Bias agreed but cautioned written communication loses emotional nuance, and community actors sound demanding/snippy while just trying to get things done.
- Gemma Lesterhuis added that non-native English speakers can be misread as negative/harsh unintentionally.
- Marie Achour agreed, noting many community members aren’t native English speakers.
- Open Q&A with HQ (12:16–12:27 PM)
- Neill Magill: asked what’s the most important upcoming change devs should know about.
- Travis Windsor: shared roadmap link (https://moodledev.io/general/community/roadmap) and Technical PAG course link (https://moodle.org/course/view.php?id=17257).
- Philipp Memmel: raised concern about AI agent activity in the tracker using Matt Porritt’s Jira tokens — how much AI is working independently on Moodle code.
- Alexander Bias: asked if HQ is happy with how the Marketplace launch went, anything they’d do differently.
- Gemma Lesterhuis: asked about a 5.3 course on Moodle Academy — Marie Achour confirmed yes.
- Mark Sharp: flagged that LTS releases only get 1 year of bug support despite institutions typically upgrading LTS-to-LTS; wants longer support window.
- Daniel Ziegenberg: asked about getting AI to do first-pass peer review to catch sloppy AI community contributions; also asked about official cooperation with CAMP.
- Nadav Kavalerchik: asked about fragmentation in the core AI subsystem and whether there’s a work group to make it more robust.
- Neill Magill: explained their plugins aren’t on Marketplace yet — couldn’t get university sign-off on new terms.
- Alexander Bias: asked about perceived “brain drain” in HQ dev teams and erosion of unwritten Moodle development traditions/integration standards — wanted clarity on who has a say in technical decisions going forward.
- Closing (12:31 PM)
Multiple attendees (Alexander Bias, Christian Abila, Davo Smith, Adam Jenkins, Gemma Lesterhuis, Mark Sharp, Marcus Green, Neill Magill, Visvanath Ratnaweera) thanked the presenters. Adam Jenkins hoped the session becomes a regular occurrence. Session ended.