[cle-release-team] Help with Skin announcement

Tue Aug 7 10:58:35 PDT 2012

The new documentation is checked in to the /reference/docs [1]

And also duplicated in Confluence (shudder) [2]

Feel free lo link to it from the release pages as needed. Feel more than
free to make suggestions/corrections.  Putting it in front of likely
readers (designers, front end devs) would be useful.

Thanks.

  - Gonzalo

[1] https://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/SAK-22463
[2] https://confluence.sakaiproject.org/x/IYjfB

On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 8:34 AM, Gonzalo Silverio <gsilver at umich.edu> wrote:

> 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
>>>>>
>>>>> Instant Message options
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>>>>> AIM: ncaidin at aol.com
>>>>> Jabber: nealcaidin at sakaifoundation.org
>>>>>
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