[cle-release-team] Help with Skin announcement

Tue Aug 7 17:27:16 PDT 2012

Solid work!
If I wanted to fix a few typos in there should I edit the confluence or the
reference/docs file (which one?) or other?
:-)
-AZ

On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 1:58 PM, Gonzalo Silverio <gsilver at umich.edu> wrote:

> 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
>>>>>>
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