Tag: development

Discussing spring security with Christoph Driessen – October 29th

by oaseth, posted in Uncategorized

For a while now, we’re finding Spring security a hard nut to crack. So we thought it would be a good idea to see where it all comes from. Fortunately, Christoph Driessen is available to help us with this: Christoph used to work for ETH Zurich and its spin-off Entwine (later: Extron) when Spring was implemented. So we’re happy to have him with us for a conversation on Spring (and possibly other things), feel free to join for questions you might have: October 29th, 2pm CET (1pm UTC), http://meet.opencast.video/.

Admin Interface BugBash on May 13-14, 2025

by Michael Schwenk (ZMML Uni Bremen), posted in Uncategorized

As mentioned at the recent Summit in Graz, elan and the University of Bremen are collaborating for an Opencast AdminUI BugBash: elan will lead an introductory workshop, to tackle the bottleneck caused by limited expertise in this area.

  • Date: May 13-14, 2025
  • Meetings (meet.opencast.video; p: welcome)
    • Kick-off Workshop AdminUI by elan: May 13, 8am UTC (10am CEST) (will be recorded!)
    • Technical meeting: May 13, 3:15pm UTC (5:15pm CEST)
    • Daily: May 14, 8am UTC (10am CEST)
    • Final: May 14, 3pm UTC (5pm CEST)

The goal of these two days is to bring together as many people as possible to identify bugs, fix them, and review the resulting patches in order to significantly advance the AdminUI.

If you want to help, that would be great. We need people to…

  • test the new user interface to create issues
  • fix issues and create pull requests
  • review pull requests

We would like to take this opportunity to once again highlight the webinar that explains how to test and review Opencast Admin UI pull requests. HERE

To add the necessary fun factor to the event, we will track progress on a leaderboard, just like in the last BugBash. Those who contribute the most can look forward to small prizes.

To participate just show up at the meetings, visit our Matrix channel at #opencast-community:matrix.org or just work in GitHub.

You cannot make it but want to help regardless?

  • You can already start identifying problems and file them as an issue. Please also file usability issues, or other suggestions for improvements.
  • You can put money into hiring developers from the usual suspects when
    it comes to experience with Opencast development.
  • You can help to translate the admin interface on Crowdin.

Admin Interface BugBash: Thank you!

by Lars Kiesow, posted in Uncategorized

This week lots of community members participated in an Opencast BugBash to help to improve the new admin interface and get rid of a lot of minor, yet annoying little bugs which were still present in the project.

BugBash Leaderboard where people could claim points for what they have done.
First release of the admin interface after the BugBash

The event turnout was great. We had admins probe for problems and report not only those but a lot of big ideas for small improvements which can make the life of admins easier. We had developers, including some new ones, picking up the reported issues and fixing what needed to be fixed. And finally, we had community members reviewing the new patches to ensure they actually fix the issues and do not cause new ones.

Further Work

The new version of the admin interface will be part of Opencast 16.0 which is to be released next week. If more patches make it in, there will likely be another admin interface release in preparation for that.

While we have fixed so much, there is quite a bit of work remaining. We identified many issues and a number of them are still open and needs fixing. We also have open patches awaiting reviews. This means that your help is still appreciated.

If you want to help in any way (testing, development, money), but don’t know how to best address this, don’t hesitate to talk to the Opencast Board.

Finally, let me close this post with another thank you everyone for all your help!

Admin Interface BugBash on June 4-5, 2024

by Lars Kiesow, posted in Uncategorized

The new admin interface has a bunch of minor, but still very annoying
bugs. To address this, there will be an Opencast BugBash focused on
the new interface (though no one will complain if you fix other bugs).

The idea for these two days is to bring together as many people as possible to identify bugs, fix them and review the resulting patches so that we can get them into Opencast prior to the release of Opencast 16.

If you want to help, that would be great. We need…

  • admins and users testing the new user interface to create issues
  • developers to fix issues and create pull requests

To participate just show up at the meetings, visit our Matrix channel at #opencast-community:matrix.org or just work in GitHub.

You cannot make it but want to help regardless?

  • You can already start identifying problems and file them as an issue. Please also file usability issues, or other suggestions for improvements.
  • You can put money into hiring developers from the usual suspects when
    it comes to experience with Opencast development.
  • You can help to translate the admin interface on Crowdin.