[cle-release-team] Trunk Experimental Build changes

[Aaron Zeckoski]

I am all for adding these to the experimental build regardless of
whether they are ever included in a release. My preference would be
that they never are (at least the ones I am responsible for or
involved in).

-AZ


On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 2:30 PM, Matthew Jones <matthew at longsight.com> wrote:
> 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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