[cle-release-team] System requirements draft for 2.9.0

[Neal Caidin]

Question 2 is answered - http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/19/apple-drops-java-mac_n_1989623.html?ir=Technology

There should be a Java 7, but supplied by Oracle, not Apple.


-- Neal

On Oct 19, 2012, at 3:01 PM, Neal Caidin <nealcaidin at sakaifoundation.org> wrote:

> Hi All,
> 
> I have copied the requirements from 2.8 and started modifying for 2.9.0 release notes. 
> 
> https://confluence.sakaiproject.org/display/DOC/%5BEarly+Draft%5D+Sakai+CLE+2.x+system+requirements+for+most+recent+release
> 
> Here are some of my questions, at least to start:
> 
> 1) Should I just remove all the examples of institutions and there configurations?  I have no idea if these are up-to-date or not and it would take a lot of work to find out.  Okay with that?
> 
> 2) I wrote "You may need to install Java SE 7 on Mac OS X.".  Is that true? There does not seem to be an Apple release of Java 7 yet.
> 
> 3) It says "The Sakai Community is overwhelmingly an Apache http/Apache Tomcat user community… ".  Is that still true? What about nginx and others? not catching up?
> 
> 4) "A few schools such as Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and the Universidad de Guadalajara report deploying Sakai on JBoss." - more specific examples. Should I nuke'em?
> 
> 5) "Sakai CLE production installations typically run either Oracle 10g/11g or MySQL 5.0/5.1/5.5."   . I added Mysql 5.5 based on recent CLE discussions. Is MySql 5.0 still supported? What about Oracle versions?
> 
> 6) "Clustering, file storage and load balancing strategies" - I have no idea about this section. Volunteer to review?
> 
> 7) External Authentication choices looks good, unless their are any major ones missing.
> 
> 8) "Integrating with student information systems" - I know there are a lot of options. I also know this is very important to schools. Anyone want to take a shot at reviewing?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> 
> Neal Caidin
> 
> Sakai CLE Community Coordinator
> nealcaidin at sakaifoundation.org
> Skype: nealkdin
> AIM: ncaidin at aol.com
> 
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