[cle-release-team] Trunk Experimental Build changes

[Matthew Jones]

Jim Eng put in a request today to add Dashboard to the trunk experimental
build. [1] Experimental used to be a place where contrib tools that may be
considered for a future release, or the most popular contrib tools were put
so at least they had some place to run as a nightly demo. Currently though
there's no tools in experimental that are different from the main build
since everything was approved during the 2.8/2.9 cycles.

Along with dashboard I was thinking there are a few others that might be
worth putting up in there if the effort to get them deployed in trunk is
minimal. Running these tools on experimental wouldn't be a sign of approval
of incubation or any other process. Just that these tools are used in the
community and "well known". Increasing interest could get further support
for them, pushing them toward larger adoption.

* Evaluation - The latest release tag is currently running on qa5-us, and
it needs some initial setup but still could be worth putting here. Unknown
if this would ever make a core tool
* Clog - This is the most supported blog tool (that I know of) and was
considered for previous releases. Blogwow also still appears to be
supported by Sam.
* The Etudes tools (melete, mneme, jforum) - While these never will be in
core, many schools are interested in them
* Signup tool - Just seems like a good tool overall, and great support from
Yale
* GB2 - Because of licensing will likely never make core, but some schools
may want to check it out
* The Edia tools (Scorm player, knowledgebase, etc) - I think knowledgebase
could be a possible replacement someday for help if they were interested in
promoting it
* The newsfeeds tool - This didn't make 2.9 because there was a library
that couldn't be updated in time(wicket-dojo), but I think it was still
functional
* Assignments2 - Has had a lot of work around it, if it runs alongside
assignments seems like it would be worth including.

Any thoughts? Additions? Subtractions?

[1] https://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/INFRSTR-89
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