[cle-release-team] revised - Re: Help with Skin announcement

[Seth Theriault]

On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 8:42 AM, Neal Caidin
<nealcaidin at sakaifoundation.org> wrote:

> "Attention: This message is for users of Sakai CLE 2.9 beta releases.   In
> beta release 7 (aka b07), an update has been made to the skin, which
> significantly improves the look and feel of the Sakai CLE. 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."

I find this statement confusing and a bit wrong.

First, the skin changes for 2.9 affect everyone. People using 2.8 and
older need to be on notice that WITHOUT a config setting in
sakai.properties, their existing skins CANNOT be used in 2.9. Period.

Second, for the handful of places using or evaluating 2.9, the
"update" here is abandonment of the original NeoPortal skins in favor
of the ex-2.10-only skin.

I would modify the text to something along the lines of:

"The upcoming Sakai CLE 2.9 release includes a major update to the
look and feel of the CLE. This update required extensive changes to
the existing skinning functionality. *Current skins used in 2.8 and
older can be used in 2.9, but a configuration setting must be enabled
in sakai.properties for them to function.*

In addition, for anyone tracking the 2.9 release and developing or
using skins based on the "NeoPortal" skin, recent changes in the beta7
release (b07) have eliminated the original design and replaced it with
the skin targeted for 2.10. You will need to make changes to your new
2.9 skin based on the b07 release.

Please see https://confluence.sakaiproject.org/display/DOC/Sakai+CLE+2.9+portal+changes
for more details."

Seth