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

[Gonzalo Silverio]

Hi,

Yes - this will be covered.

-Gonzalo

On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 10:04 AM, Steve Swinsburg
<steve.swinsburg at gmail.com>wrote:

> I note that in trunk we now have 17 skins. Is the doco that Gonzalo is
> writing, or some other doco, going to address what all of these mean?
>
> https://source.sakaiproject.org/svn//reference/trunk/library/src/webapp/skin/
>
> I know a lot of them are just examples of what can be done, but it would
> be nice to have a doc that had screenshots so people didn't have to
> activate each in turn to see what it did. The neo work added 9 skins btw.
>
> Cheers,
> Steve
>
> Sent from my iPad
>
> On 07/08/2012, at 23:48, Matthew Jones <matthew at longsight.com> wrote:
>
> I might also mention that these existing skins will not receive any new
> features/changes in future releases. Otherwise good description. Some more
> updates needed in wiki.
> On Aug 7, 2012 9:23 AM, "Neal Caidin" <nealcaidin at sakaifoundation.org>
> wrote:
>
>> Thanks Seth. To me, that looks like it contains the complete set of
>> information the community would need to know. I now understand the
>> ramifications of the skin change, which I didn't before reading that.
>>
>> +1
>>
>> Neal
>>
>> On Aug 7, 2012, at 9:04 AM, Seth Theriault <slt at columbia.edu> wrote:
>>
>> > 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
>>
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- Gonzalo
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