[cle-release-team] Help with Skin announcement

[Matthew Jones]

I've updated this on the wiki.

On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 4:55 PM, Aaron Zeckoski <azeckoski at unicon.net> wrote:

> 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
>>>
>>> Instant Message options
>>> ------------------------------------------
>>> Skype (preferred) : nealkdin
>>> AIM: ncaidin at aol.com
>>> Jabber: nealcaidin at sakaifoundation.org
>>>
>>> _______________________________________________
>>> cle-release-team mailing list
>>> cle-release-team at collab.sakaiproject.org
>>> http://collab.sakaiproject.org/mailman/listinfo/cle-release-team
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> cle-release-team mailing list
>> cle-release-team at collab.sakaiproject.org
>> http://collab.sakaiproject.org/mailman/listinfo/cle-release-team
>>
>> --
>> Aaron Zeckoski - Software Architect -
>> <http://collab.sakaiproject.org/mailman/listinfo/cle-release-team>
>> http://tinyurl.com/azprofile
>>
>>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://collab.sakaiproject.org/pipermail/cle-release-team/attachments/20120806/3477aef6/attachment-0006.html