[cle-release-team] Help with Skin announcement

[Aaron Zeckoski]

I would drop the "Rutgers has contributed a " part since the current skin
is actually a result of efforts from lots of schools and individuals and
there will be even more involved by the time it is released. Simply
mentioning it is new and replaces the older ones in 2.9 should be
sufficient IMO.

-AZ


On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 4:52 PM, Neal Caidin
<nealcaidin at sakaifoundation.org>wrote:

> Okay.
>
> Should the naming happen before the announcement? Otherwise there will be
> this announcement and then another announcement announcing the new name?
>
> To keep it simple maybe we should target the message just to folks who are
> using pre-b07, since everyone else will be using the new skin anyway when
> they start their process to convert to 2.9.
>
> How about something like:
>
> "Attention: This message is primarily targeted for users of Sakai CLE 2.9
> beta release 6 (Sakai CLE 2.9-b06) and earlier beta releases of CLE 2.9 :
> Rutgers has contributed a skin update which significantly improves the look
> and feel of the Sakai CLE and has become the new de facto standard for
> Sakai 2.9. Older skins will not be supported and, if possible, you should
> move to the b07 skin. Please see
> https://confluence.sakaiproject.org/display/DOC/Sakai+CLE+2.9+portal+changes
> for details."
>
>
> - Neal
>
>
>
>
>
>
> On Aug 6, 2012, at 4:02 PM, Matthew Jones <matthew at longsight.com> wrote:
>
> Here was the write-up I started:
>
>
> https://confluence.sakaiproject.org/display/DOC/Sakai+CLE+2.9+portal+changes
>
>
> To use the pre 2.9 skins you can use
>   portal.templates=classicskin
>
> All new skins are prefixed by default "neo-" all old skins have no prefix.
> Any 2.9 skins that were used prior to 2.9.0-b07 are unsupported and
> probably don't work.
>
> I think there's 3 pieces of information here for Skins.
>
> - Sakai had a standard look for the past couple of years and the standard
> skins have essentially been unchanged from 2.0->2.9.
> - For the first few betas over the last year of 2.9 there was a set of
> skins (early-neo, 2.9) these skins didn't really look that good (anymore)
> and had some bugs which were hard to fix.  Anyone who started using 2.9
> with these is really out of luck. They can continue using them, but we've
> deleted all of them and don't test anything with them.
>  - For trunk and betas 2.9.0-b07 and afterward theres a new set of skins
> (current-neo, 2.10, dos.equis) which have a different look.
>
> We were also wondering if we could call them something different. :)
>
> For the Why, look at this slideshow, maybe Dr. Dhuck has a more updated
> list of reasons, but I think the ones in here are still good.
>
> http://www.slideshare.net/csev/sakai-29-and-sakai-210-portal-and-plans
>
> On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 3:40 PM, Neal Caidin <
> nealcaidin at sakaifoundation.org> wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> At the last CLE meeting, we discussed the need to announce a replacement
>> skin for CLE 2.9 .
>>
>> I don't know the particulars but I think the key points of the message
>> are:
>>
>> * The default portal skin for 2.9 has changed.
>> * Instructions or pointer to instructions to run your legacy skin are ……..
>> * The benefits of the new skin are an improved look and feel because …..
>>
>>
>> Are those the main points, correctly worded? Can anybody provide details
>> for how legacy skins can be run (or put on Confluence so we can point to
>> it)? Can you provide two or three key changes of the new skin compared to
>> the old?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Neal Caidin
>>
>> CLE Community Coordinator
>>
>> email - nealcaidin at sakaifoundation.org
>>
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