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release/2.8 and WeBWorK::Rochester::2013 results

release/2.8 and WeBWorK::Rochester::2013 results

by Michael Gage -
Number of replies: 4
We have just completed another productive code camp, WeBWorK::Rochester::2013 held at the University of Rochester over the weekend of October 5, 2013.

You can read the details in the blog aggregator:  webwork.maa.org/planet  or more permanently at http://michaelgage.blogspot.com/2013/10/webworkrochester2013-october-4-7-2013.html

One of the outcomes is release/2.8 which we plan to merge into the master branch on December 1, 2013.  This gives us two months to apply final bug fixes and feature tweaks.  Please help us with bug reports and requests for (minor) feature improvements.

You can read about the new features in release/2.8 on the wiki at http://webwork.maa.org/wiki/Release_notes_for_WeBWorK_2.8.  

More discursive descriptions will appear on the blogs in the blog aggregator. We invite all of you to contribute howtos, tutorials and other comments by writing a blog post and having it included in the blog aggregator.  To have your blog posts aggregated simply send the url to your blog (at wordpress or blogspot for example) to aubreyja@gmail.com or to gage@math.rochester.edu


-- Mike

In reply to Michael Gage

Re: release/2.8 and WeBWorK::Rochester::2013 results

by Nandor Sieben -
> Please help us with bug reports and requests for (minor) feature improvements.

In the library browser the blue comment line is placed after the problem (closer to the next problem) so it's sometimes not clear which problem it belongs to. Perhaps it would be better to have the comment line between the add button and the problem text.

Also in the library browser, it would help if the problems grouped together were somehow visually separated from other groups after I click on the M button.

It may be possible to write a script that checks every pg file in the OPL to see if the problem has any of the randomization commands. If the pg file does not have any, then the script could add a COMMENT("Static problem.") line to the file.

The lines on the student progress page seem much wider vertically than it used to be in the old days. It requires a lot of scrolling to see how my class progresses. Would it be possible to make it a bit more compact.
In reply to Nandor Sieben

Re: release/2.8 and WeBWorK::Rochester::2013 results

by John Jones -
On visually showing more-like-this groups, I think 2.8 has the feature that a problem which has the "M" has a thin black border.  At that point, it is just helping to signal something special about the problem.

When you click on the M, the entire group is enclosed in that black border showing which problems are being grouped together.

John

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Re: release/2.8 and WeBWorK::Rochester::2013 results

by Louis Zulli -
"One of the outcomes is release/2.8 which we plan to merge into the master branch on December 1, 2013."

It seems this didn't occur. 

Has a new date been set? (Trying to coordinate an upgrade of our system from 2.4 with our IT group.)

Thanks.
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Re: release/2.8 and WeBWorK::Rochester::2013 results

by Andras Balogh -
We also would like to know this for the same reason. 
With the semester ending we would like to install the newest version in the next few weeks.