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Description

Name of the software:

Moodle

Project/product Homepage:

https://moodle.org/

Why we should include this into the repository, i.e. what does it do that the alternatives do not?

Probably the best available open-source learning platform used in numerous universities and high-schools all over the world.

Is it open source?

Yes.

If it is open source, please provide a link to the most up to date, versioned source tarball/zipfile. master.zip links will not be accepted.

https://download.moodle.org/download.php/stable34/moodle-latest-34.tgz

If there are no upstream releases but the inclusion policy is otherwise met, please provide a link to the source repository (i.e. GitHub)

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Rejected under our Package Inclusion Policy under Server Software section.

There is a note in the inclusion policy saying: "Web servers and database daemons ARE eligible for inclusion, as they facilitate web developers to work locally." I use a local copy of moodle on Archlinux to develop my classroom materials before publishing them to my website. Shouldn't this type of usage of moodle make it eligible for inclusion into solus?

Web servers - Moodle isn't a web server, it's web software. It doesn't need to be packaged up. The intended purposes of Solus isn't to be a server, it doesn't make sense to have a maintained package for Moodle. This isn't even the case for any other operating system that's used in server instances (you don't sudo apt install wordpress for example).

Thank you for the explanation. I really appreciate it!

@phabby Your best bet to easily install/run it locally would be to use docker/docker-compose (both available in the Solus repo): https://github.com/bitnami/bitnami-docker-moodle