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.

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