Automate configuration

[TamaroWalter]

Currently, each repository that uses the workflow needs to declare a config.json where it defines the main supported version and the test
matrix. This could be automated. Instead of parsing the config.json, the index.js file could build the static and test matrix automatically. To do that, the index.js needs to know which moodle and php versions are currently supported and what the support status is (stable or security support).

This would make the config.json file for many plugins obsolete. This would make updating easier.

[bluetom]

That's exactly what you've implemented by now, isn't it? So we can close this issue?

[dlmsr]

I would propose to read the version information from the supports field in version.php and if this field does not exist, use a default.

[TamaroWalter]

A cool addition would be that the plugins reads currently supported version without me manually typing them in the workflow_config.js . But the workflow_config.js is the most important advancement. Technically we can close this issue

[dlmsr]

Yes, let's have the following:

If a repo has supports set in version.php, use this to determine which Moodle versions to use. Otherwise, use the default one which is to use the currently supported Moodle releases.

It would be nice to automatically test with the Moodle versions for which the plugin claims support so that if CI fails and the Moodle version is unsupported, we can drop it.

What do you think, @bluetom, @TamaroWalter?

I don't think we should close this issue now but instead close it when the above is implemented or at least part of it (the automatic retrieval of Moodle releases is optional for me as we can still configure the default centrally in this repo).