******** General Announcement ********

[carl-hostrander]

Hello community!

I am Carl and would like to announce that I am the tech lead overseeing the Turnitin Moodle Plugins. My goal is to address the issues and submitted pull requests in a timely manner when they are submitted. We are planning to have plugin releases twice a year, in June and in October where needed.

Unfortunately, I have inherited a lot of unresolved pull requests and issues. The action plan for resolving these will be to work from the latest to the oldest. There is a caveat to the term oldest. Currently we support versions 4.1+ up to and including 4.4+. Moodle 4.1 originally was release in November, 2022. Any issue that has been tagged with version before that will have a comment and then closed. If the issue is still pertinent to you, please retest in supported version of Moodle and either create a new issue or comment on the current issue, denoting version tested on and re-open the ticket. The reasoning behind this is that fixes have gone out that may have already resolved the issue or a fix has been implemented but the issue has not been closed in repo. Also, I don't have the resources right now to investigate every single issue that is not pertinent to a supported release.

Lastly, I would like to say, if you believe an issue or pull request needs immediate action please tag me to let me know. Also, here are a few notes on this repo:

• Please always submit Pull Requests to the Develop branch. Any other Branch the PR will be denied.
• We will be implementing 2 labels that show our progress:
  • investigating : This means we have taken this issue or PR and activately working on it
  • scheduled for next release : This means we have accepted the PR, fixed the issue and merged to develop. Once merged to develop it automatically gets added to next release.

[aspark21]

Welcome @carl-hostrander

I've now reviewed all of our hotfixes and hacks.

These are the maintenance fixes worth looking at for mod_turnitintooltwo

• Fix failing Behat test #707
• replaced deprecated function print_error() #748
• CTP-2397 : now explicitely creating stdClass before assigning values #744
• forcing array type before using current() #746

We don't have fixes for these:

• Submission grades are not synced to grade book #727
• Unncessary session locks in ajax.php #722
• ‘Show/Save Data Dump’ tabs of the plugin settings are not working #741

plagiarism_turnitin - all fixes now merged :) Thank you!

These are nice to haves, we do need to keep maintaining a fork with some of our more bespoke hacks so no big deal if not merged :

• added data generator class #745
• Rollover - set dates further into the future #743

Really appreciating the effort in reviewing all these long standing fixes.
Thanks
Alistair