Rather than performing complicated upgrade procedures from the old (broken) logic in three activity modules, we are adding new capabilities to those three modules to make them all consistent, and using them in a callback from the Ratings API. This is the same as the Comments API.
The downside is that two sets of capabilities need to be enabled for ratings to work. Hopefully this can be mitigated somewhat when build some sort of shortcuts on the module settings forms to set capabilities. In the meantime, the effect is reduced somewhat by having all the rating capabilities enabled by default for student and teacher roles. This means control is in the hands of whatever the modules have set, giving very close backward compatibility.
This is not the perfect solution, but neither were the other two.
The original code was shocking once I started reviewing it, and even
after heavy editing I'm still not happy with it, but at least it works
more like it was supposed to.
Needs more cleaning up to make it clearer and probably safer.
Also, presets can now contain langage packs and they'll be used.
The image gallery is an example.
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WARNING: DEV IS CURRENTLY VERY UNSTABLE.
This is a mega-checkin of the new Roles system. A lot of changes have
been made in core and modules.
Currently there are a lot of rough edges and known problems. We are
working hard on these .. .the reason for getting this into HEAD at this
stage is enable us to move faster (our branch was diverging from HEAD
too much).
Please keep an eye on http://docs.moodle.org/en/Roles for current status
and information for developers on how to use the new Roles system.
Finally, we have an early version good enough for everyone to
start banging on to help us polish it up and find bugs.
Please take a look and file bugs in the bug tracker under "Database module".
We urgently need
- new icons for existing field types
- testing on PostgreSQL install
Coming soon (?):
- Many more field types: calculation, checkbox, relation, date, datetime,
time, email, group, list, user, number, richtext
(Please let us know if you are interested in developing any of these)
- A way to save and restore "presets", which are field/template sets
- Backup/Restore support
- Groups Support
- RSS support
Many thanks to Yu for all the hard work under my whip.
Andrew Davis