[Announcements] REMINDER: Important 2.8 planning deadlines

[Seth Theriault]

Hello,

If you are working on new features or other major changes for 
2.8, please remember the following DEADLINES:

1) Major Changes (TOMORROW, 8 September 2010)

Project leads and others should communicate major changes planned  
for 2.8 via this Confluence page by TOMORROW, 8 September 2010:

http://confluence.sakaiproject.org/x/RwghB

The above page will be used by the TCC and others to inform 
future 2.8-related decisions. It is very important that you 
communicate your plans.

If you are not able to edit this page to add information, please 
use drop an e-mail to me or Megan May.

2) Code Freeze (21 September 2010, 23:59 UTC)

The code freeze for Sakai 2.8 (including the kernel) will occur 
at 23:59 UTC, 21 September 2010. A 2.8 branch and alpha tag will 
be created at that time.

As noted on the more detailed schedule page, at the time of the 
code freeze:

"All changes to code completed, including sakai.properties 
settings, appropriate default permissions, work related to tool 
status changes, kernel, database upgrade/conversion scripts, 
upgrades and additions to shared/common jar files and tools 
(e.g., java, maven, dbcp, spring, hibernate, tomcat) are 
completed. , etc."

(see http://confluence.sakaiproject.org/x/8RkhB)

Seth