[cle-release-team] Help with Skin announcement

Tue Aug 7 05:34:11 PDT 2012

Hi all.

I am almost done with the skin documentation. Normally it gets added to the
source at /reference. Can I also add a child page to the release
documentation? Thanks.

  - Gonzalo

On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 5:50 PM, Matthew Jones <matthew at longsight.com> wrote:

> 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
>>>>
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- Gonzalo
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