Category:Developers

Mailing Lists

Mailing Lists of interest to developers.

Developing for WeBWorK

These articles will help you modify WeBWorK and contribute to its development.

• Coding Standards
• Setting up a Development Server
• openwebwork-devel — Discussion of WeBWorK development, searchable archives.
• openwebwork-cvs — CVS commit notifications, searchable archives.

Adding WeBWorK questions to the National Problem Library (NPL)

There are instructions for contributing to the NPL for those who have commit privileges.

Git Hub

The latest of our repositories

The main "stable" Git Hub repository is at

http://github.com/openwebwork

There are active experimental branch repositories at

https://github.com/mgage (Michael Gage) and https://github.com/aubreyja (Jason Aubrey)

An experimental Git Hub repository for the National Problem Library is at

https://github.com/jasongrout/webwork-national-problem-library

SVN

• Subversion
• Download from SVN
• SVN Commit Access

Administrative tasks

These articles detail how we manage the WeBWorK development and release process.

• CVS Repositories
• CVS Branching
• Preparing a release for distribution (Making tarballs)
• Bugzilla user list pruning
• Create WeBWorK LiveDVD

Design/Implementation Notes

• 2009_03_tasks Notes on projects for summer 2009 from March web-conference
• AIM07/Working_Groups Notes from the August 2007 AIM workshop
• Wishlist
• Google_summer_of_code_projects
• GUI Toolkit Ideas
• PGLanguageV2 — An idea for a markup-oriented approach to PG. No code yet. (cf. PGML.)
• WeBWorK as a web service
• Problem editor ideas
• Hierarchical problem sets ideas
• Technical design philosophy for WeBWorK — Old, but still good for inspiration or laughs.

Localization/ Internationalization

• Localization: follow link for instructions on helping with the translation effort
  • Ben Walter and Grant He have made significant progress on this.

Projects

• ModernPerl -- Updating the perl coding style

• Configuration
• Improving the NPL
  • Collecting metadata tools
• Accessibility
  • Grant He has begun to write tools to make writing accessible HTML code easier. He is starting with a make_label subroutine.
• PG language enhancements
• Unit Testing Create automated tests to insure that WeBWorK is configured and functioning properly.
• LMS integration
  • Blackboard
  • Moodle Integration
  • Moodle 2.0
• Whiteboard
  • Aaron Wangberg
• Adaptive learning
  • Aaron Wangberg
  • Ken Appel

For WeBWorK Consultants

• WeBWorK Consultants, Workshops and Training Sessions
• Documentation for WeBWorK Consultants