Andrew Nicols - Help!! How do I turn it off and on again?

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This document summarizes Andrew Nicols' background and areas of expertise in developing Moodle. It also outlines some common issues users face with Moodle and where to find help, including community forums, documentation, and the issue tracker. The document discusses what makes for good and bad bug reports to help improve the issue tracking process.

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Help!!
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Andrew Nicols
Developer
Moodle Pty Ltd
http://github.com/andrewnicols

•Core contributor since 2010
•Previously worked with Schools, Universities, and other organisations in the North-
West of England - Moodle for 1,000 schools
•Developer on migration from IBM Domino to Moodle at Lancaster University
•Moved to Perth in September 2013 to join Moodle HQ
•Component lead for AJAX and JavaScript, and Forums
•Also developer on some other open source projects (YUI, and Mahara)
Andrew Nicols

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•Some of the types of thing which can go
wrong
•Where you can go to seek help
•Bad bug reports and how to make them better
•Other places you can go for help
•How you can help others
I’ll be covering…

•Bug
•Improvement
•New Feature
Types of issue

1. Community Forums (moodle.org)
2. Community documentation
(docs.moodle.org)
3. Issue tracker (tracker.moodle.org)
Where to get help

moodle.org forums
•Other like-minded people, often
trying to achieve similar goals
•Twelve years of forum posts to
search through and more to
come
•Lots of technical advice and
suggestions on different ways
of using activities

docs.moodle.org
•The authoritative documentation
for each version of Moodle
•Wiki-based - you can improve
documentation to ﬁll in the gaps
•Same login as moodle.org

tracker.moodle.org
•All reported Moodle bugs,
feature requests, improvement
suggestions, and more
•3,022 open bugs
•3,145 open improvements
•1,235 open feature requests

Things we I hate
•Duplicate bug reports for the same issue
•Bug reports for things which have been ﬁxed
•Missing information
•Version
•Replication instructions
•expectations
•When you use a fake name!

Things we love
•Replication instructions
•Screenshots or Screencasts to demonstrate the issue
•Version information (the more detailed the better)
•To know what you expected to happen, and what actually
happened
•When you reply to our questions
•The Why

More things we <3
•Patches
•Involvement
•Suggestions
•Problems

•Moodle User Groups (MUG)
•Moodle Partners
•Social Media
•Other conferences

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