version = 2021052500 release version
requires= 2021052500 same than version
Why 20210525? (25th May 2021) ?
Because master is going to be Moodle 4.0, to be released
on November 2021. And, until then, we are going to have
a couple of "intermediate" releases:
- Moodle 3.10 to be released 9th November 2020. (2020110900)
This version will be using versions from today to 2020110900
(once it's released the YYYYMMDD part stops advancing).
- Moodle 3.11 to be released 10th May 2021. (2021051000)
This version will be using versions from 3.10 release to 2021051000
(once it's released the YYYYMMDD part stops advancing).
That means that all versions from today to 2021051000 are going
to be used by those 2 "intermediate" releases (3.10 and 3.11).
And we cannot use them in master, because it's forbidden to have
any overlapping of versions between branches (or different upgrade
paths will fail).
So, get that 2021051000, let's add it a couple of weeks to cover
the on-sync period (or a 2 weeks delay max!) and, the first version
that master can "own" in exclusive (without any overlap) is, exactly,
25th May 2021, hence our 20210525.
The earlier CONTRIB plugin versions of the tool (<33.2.0, <34.2.0) were
missing the following columns in the data requests table:
* commentsformat
* dpocommentformat
And the upgrade scripts for the merged tool failed in
Moodle 3.3.8+/3.3.0+ failed to add these columns.
So a site which uses the CONTRIB plugin and eventually upgrading to 3.9
will encounter an error during upgrade because of the missing
dpocommentformat column.
Thanks to Luca Bösch and Matteo Scaramuccia that detected
these 2 minor, but ugly details in core version files:
1) Adding comments pointed to versions (3.x, 20190801...) is not
recommended, they easily come outdated.
2) Using plugin->release in core is no sense. Core plugins belong
to the core release.
This commit just gets rid of them. That's all.
This commit is composed of different issues, most of them under
MDL-61306:
- MDL-61888, MDL-61785, MDL-61830, MDL-61874, MDL-59720,
MDL-61486, MDL-61697, MDL-61798, MDL-61685, MDL-61682,
MDL-61684, MDL-61618, MDL-61681, MDL-61680, MDL-61487,
MDL-61499, MDL-61500, MDL-61362 and MDL-59718
Contributions to this patch by:
- Jun Pataleta
- David Monllao
- Andrew Nicols
- Adrian B. Greeve
- Jake Dallimore
- Sara Arjona
Eloy Lafuente (stronk7)