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Stephan Kergomard

Over 13 months, this developer enhanced the ILIAS-eLearning/ILIAS repository by delivering 60 features and resolving 154 bugs, focusing on assessment workflows, data integrity, and user experience. They engineered robust import/export logic, standardized access control, and improved test suite reliability, using PHP, JavaScript, and SQL. Their work included UI/UX refinements, localization, and backend optimizations such as database indexing and permission management. By refactoring legacy code and modernizing dependencies, they reduced regression risk and improved maintainability. The developer’s contributions resulted in more predictable releases, streamlined exam configuration, and a scalable, secure platform supporting both administrators and end users.

Overall Statistics

Feature vs Bugs

28%Features

Repository Contributions

500Total
Bugs
154
Commits
500
Features
60
Lines of code
20,532
Activity Months13

Work History

October 2025

14 Commits • 3 Features

Oct 1, 2025

Month: 2025-10 | ILIAS repository: ILIAS-eLearning/ILIAS. Delivered security and data integrity improvements, expanded import compatibility, and enhancements to the Test/Quiz workflow. Key outcomes include standardized user permissions and role management to prevent unauthorized actions and ensure consistent 'read' permissions, fixed critical data retrieval and NULL handling issues to maintain data integrity, expanded ZIP import MIME type support, and improvements to the Test/Quiz system with settings validation, media handling, and UI messaging. These changes reduce security risk, improve data reliability, compatibility with external content, and overall user experience in assessment workflows.

September 2025

32 Commits • 4 Features

Sep 1, 2025

September 2025 — ILIAS development delivered feature enhancements, critical bug fixes, and strengthened test automation, driving data integrity, reliability, and faster release readiness. Key features delivered include: homogenizing Create/Update Date semantics across all entities to ensure consistent timestamps; ilObjUser Boyscouting enhancements to improve user data integrity and workflow handling; and expanded test coverage with Test Suite Enhancements and Test Coverage Enhancements targeting UI flows, availability, and question handling. Major bugs fixed include: correct handling of user inactivation dates; stabilizing the test suite (ordering previews, modal IDs, availability, and question status) and core functionality improvements (map usage across contexts, on-save callback fixes, and missing test constants). Overall impact: improved data consistency, reduced test flakiness, and increased confidence in releases, enabling faster delivery of new features with fewer regressions. Technologies/skills demonstrated: data modeling and timestamp normalization; frontend-backend integration; test automation and QA engineering; cross-context debugging (maps, RTE callbacks); and robust commit-driven traceability.

August 2025

21 Commits • 2 Features

Aug 1, 2025

2025-08: Focused on user experience improvements, QA coverage, and UI/data stability in ILIAS. Delivered a streamlined user flow by removing the Roles tab and implementing a robust redirect path. Expanded QA coverage for QuestionTitles rendering and related export/redirect behaviors. Fixed a set of UI bugs impacting navigation and data presentation, and stabilized important UI components such as the Dropzone and LogTable. These changes contribute to smoother daily operations, more reliable content exports and redirects, and a more stable user interface across modules.

July 2025

16 Commits • 2 Features

Jul 1, 2025

July 2025: Strengthened reliability, correctness, and data integrity of ILIAS assessment workflows. Delivered targeted improvements across five areas: user profile/test result reliability, question feedback accuracy and UI rendering, test personal settings, import messaging/content handling, and ordering/data integrity. The work reduces null-pointer risks, ensures accurate test reporting, avoids double-encoding, preserves user preferences, enhances import feedback, and fixes cloning-related ordering issues, delivering tangible business value through more trustworthy results, faster content iteration, and smoother user experiences. Technologies demonstrated include PHP defensive coding, type-casting consistency, fullscreen media handling, robust input validation, and DB field adjustments.

June 2025

6 Commits • 1 Features

Jun 1, 2025

June 2025 ILIAS repository work focused on hardening data integrity, security, and test flow robustness across the ILIAS/eLearning/ILIAS project. Delivered key features for test management and improved reliability of export/import paths, with strong emphasis on permission checks, UI/state consistency, and type safety. This period included several critical bug fixes and enhancements aligned with business value: protecting tests’ data from unauthorized autosaves, ensuring correct boolean handling during export of settings, improving test attempt finishing logic across multiple tries, stabilizing GUI state after saves, and preventing array-access errors during question export.

May 2025

33 Commits • 4 Features

May 1, 2025

May 2025 performance summary for ILIAS repository (ILIAS-eLearning/ILIAS). Overview: Delivered targeted improvements to exam configuration, import capabilities, data integrity, and UI/UX robustness. Strengthened access control and test reliability to reduce risk and operational overhead. These efforts improved configuration portability, data accuracy, user experience, and security, enabling faster deployment of exams with fewer manual interventions. Key features delivered and impact: - Export/Import Exam Conditions Setting: Added ability to export and import exam configuration conditions to standardize settings across environments (commit 0837bde3e7028c5243be7ddf979e5a036ae82e19). - Import: Allow Import of Tests Without Questions: Broadened test import capabilities to include tests that contain no questions, reducing manual data preparation (commit fcddb1bdd69e83e73f327a565e3469c23cedfcd2). - Accessibility and UI improvements: Implemented accessibility enhancements for LongMenu-Qst and removed a misleading info-box to improve clarity and keyboard/screen reader navigation (commits 8713c8f353248ce5bb8ca1c329594eb51cfbcb60; 93edd44b204e08d354997e69e342fee41eec320b). - Data integrity in import: Fixed critical import topics to ensure accurate question counts and prevent duplicates (commits cef02bae317c4d14e1535d8cefc92355fe3dcfad; d23b631102daa34fdb75d19b4f0d57d4e3f1ae7d). - Access control and test reliability: Improved permission handling and MobID type handling, plus stabilization of random test workflows to reduce flakiness in CI/tests (commits f6a43de98daea7fc41badff306343a9bbad4b850; 39c952d3454225d3e4e3c549958c39e2e5443503; 4fea97c7fab530c7e0a0bfca1c835d146ac88d04; b9d6a4bab56ddedc5a57491db99d84d116b9b9f3; 53ff0d61a4dbd6b46be92a06e61eed110f0ea097). Top 3-5 achievements: - Export/Import Exam Conditions Setting enabling configuration portability across environments (commit 0837bde3e7028c5243be7ddf979e5a036ae82e19). - Import: Allow Import of Tests Without Questions expanding import capabilities (commit fcddb1bdd69e83e73f327a565e3469c23cedfcd2). - Fixed import data integrity: correct question counting and deduplication during import (commits cef02bae317c4d14e1535d8cefc92355fe3dcfad; d23b631102daa34fdb75d19b4f0d57d4e3f1ae7d). - UI/UX polish and accessibility: remove misleading UI element and enhance LongMenu-Qst accessibility (commits 93edd44b204e08d354997e69e342fee41eec320b; 8713c8f353248ce5bb8ca1c329594eb51cfbcb60). - Strengthened access control and test reliability: improved permission handling, MobID string handling, and stabilized test workflows (commits f6a43de98daea7fc41badff306343a9bbad4b850; 39c952d3454225d3e4e3c549958c39e2e5443503; 4fea97c7fab530c7e0a0bfca1c835d146ac88d04; b9d6a4bab56ddedc5a57491db99d84d116b9b9f3; 53ff0d61a4dbd6b46be92a06e61eed110f0ea097).

April 2025

15 Commits • 3 Features

Apr 1, 2025

April 2025 performance highlights for ILIAS: Delivered user-facing UI/UX and localization improvements; enhanced formula question handling for accurate scoring; fixed critical display and sorting bugs to improve test results, player interfaces, and participant management; implemented a database index to boost access-control performance. Focused on stability, reliability, and scalable permission checks to support larger deployments while maintaining high-quality user experience.

March 2025

28 Commits • 7 Features

Mar 1, 2025

March 2025 ILIAS repository: focused on feature delivery, data import/export reliability, UI consistency, and test stability. Key outcomes include enhancements to plugin lifecycle and labeling, expanded file-import flexibility, and robust exports, underpinned by a strengthened test suite and RBAC/security improvements.

February 2025

72 Commits • 7 Features

Feb 1, 2025

February 2025 focused on stabilizing and increasing the reliability of the ILIAS product through a comprehensive test-suite overhaul, RBAC/user stability improvements, maintenance refactors, and enhanced data import workflows. Major deliveries include a strengthened test suite across core modules, fixes to RBAC and user data handling, maintenance cleanup (dependency updates and GUIFactory removal), improved import/taxonomy handling (including container scenarios), and UI/UX/observability enhancements that improve feedback during scoring and reminder communications. These efforts reduced regression risk, improved data integrity, and provided clearer signals for incident response and future refactors.

January 2025

94 Commits • 6 Features

Jan 1, 2025

January 2025 (ILIAS repository): Delivered stability, localization, and UX improvements across the ILIAS project. Focused on strengthening the test suite, upgrading critical dependencies, and enhancing rendering capabilities, while hardening data exports and access controls. Result: reduced regression risk, improved localization consistency, and more robust data handling, contributing to faster release cycles and higher confidence in production changes.

December 2024

88 Commits • 7 Features

Dec 1, 2024

December 2024 monthly summary for ILIAS development. Delivered stability and reliability across the test suite, tightened access controls for user management, fixed IRSS migration edge cases, and expanded correctness/test-coverage. Consolidated test infrastructure improvements and test utilities, along with UI/internalization refinements. These efforts reduced flaky tests, lowered risk on releases, and strengthened data integrity across test and import/export workflows, delivering clear business value in faster, more predictable releases and improved user confidence.

November 2024

70 Commits • 11 Features

Nov 1, 2024

November 2024 performance summary for ILIAS repo (ILIAS-eLearning/ILIAS). Focused on stabilizing test infrastructure, restoring critical data export capabilities, and advancing localization and editor reliability. Key milestones include a language property refactor for robust localization, restoration of Results Export functionality, and significant test suite hardening across multiple modules. The work also included alignment of object naming after component renames and targeted dependency upgrades to improve compatibility and security. These efforts reduce deployment risk, improve data integrity, and enable downstream analytics and user-facing features.

October 2024

11 Commits • 3 Features

Oct 1, 2024

October 2024 — Focused delivery across UI cleanup, security hardening, data integrity, and modernization in ILIAS. The month delivered tangible business value by simplifying the user interface, hardening access controls, ensuring robust content/LTI data handling, and modernizing the codebase for maintainability and reliability.

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Quality Metrics

Correctness84.6%
Maintainability86.2%
Architecture78.4%
Performance77.6%
AI Usage20.0%

Skills & Technologies

Programming Languages

CSSEnglishGermanHTMLHungarianINIJavaScriptPHPPlain textSQL

Technical Skills

AJAXAPI IntegrationAccess ControlAccess Control ManagementAccessibilityAsset ManagementAuthenticationBack End DevelopmentBack-end DevelopmentBackend DevelopmentBug FixingCSSCode ClarityCode CleanupCode Formatting

Repositories Contributed To

1 repo

Overview of all repositories you've contributed to across your timeline

ILIAS-eLearning/ILIAS

Oct 2024 Oct 2025
13 Months active

Languages Used

HTMLJavaScriptPHPPlain textCSSEnglishGermanHungarian

Technical Skills

AJAXAPI IntegrationAccess ControlBackend DevelopmentCSSCode Refactoring

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