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[This is a copy of a forum post I've written over at sloodle.org. I'm posting it here to ensure it stays online, even if the original gets deleted.]

I've explained this issue before to no avail, personally and in code reviews (afaik), so now I'm doing it publicly to see if I get any better results. Team members will know exactly who I'm addressing here, but I will happily name-and-shame if this doesn't get sorted, because I'm fed up of trunk code that looks like a script-kiddie attacked it.

The database upgrade code (in "db/upgrade.php") should not drop tables unless they are actually being deleted.

SLOODLE is breaching the GPL

Written by Peter R. Bloomfield | Monday, 25 January 2010 11:43 | 0 comments
As SLOODLE is a GPL project, we are required to make source code available for everything we produce. This allows users to look at how things work, and it allows other developers to work on tools and contribute to the project and so on. Withholding this means we are breaching our own licence and damaging the future of SLOODLE.

However, since September 2009, SLOODLE has been breaching the GPL in exactly this way. I have made many repeated attempts since then via the issues tracker, forums, IMs, emails, and community meetings to have this resolved, but I have been ignored. Random other development sidetracks have been happily pursued while the responsibility for what we already have has been cast aside.
Hello readers!

I am plastering everywhere else on the web with this, so I thought I might as well put it on my own blog too! :)

I am conducting a survey alongside the SLOODLE project and as part of my PhD work. Your participation would be greatly appreciated:

Link removed because this survey has now closed.

SLOODLE Presenter

Written by Peter R. Bloomfield | Monday, 22 December 2008 23:16 | 0 comments

I've just created and uploaded a new SLOODLE video, and this one is a kind of preview tutorial about the new SLOODLE Presenter tool which will be released in SLOODLE 0.4:

SLOODLE website gets a face-lift

Written by Peter R. Bloomfield | Friday, 28 November 2008 16:03 | 0 comments

After much discussion and chatting and ideas and then silence for a few months, we have finally given the SLOODLE website a face-lift. I am really very pleased with the result. Check it out: