[cle-release-team] [sakai-pmc] Two new features for Sakai 10

[Matthew Jones]

I agree, not as big as an audience. I've already made comments on these
specific tickets but will just summarize them.

On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 5:22 PM, Kirschner, Beth <bkirschn at umich.edu> wrote:

> I'd like to propose 2 new features for Sakai 10:
>
> https://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/SAK-25371 - Add Optional Print
> option to Resources "Action" menu. Requires minor kernel change. We're
> currently testing this feature, which will require institutions to
> implement a provider to make it active.
>

Sounds good, just my previous comments on the ticket. It would be nice if
there was a brief document (confluence or README?) that has a sample of how
someone else could take advantage of writing a end service for it. Ideally
it would be an active test running somewhere that QA could connect so we
could avoid regression. Like how we can easily test LTI functionality on
appspot is pretty great (http://simplelti.appspot.com/test.htm). Even if it
just connects and writes out some debugging information, would provide a
great example.


> https://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/SAK-22384 - Add MathJax (finally).
> Looks like Waterloo has something in production that needs to be reviewed &
> merged back to trunk when available.
>

Yea, I'm not sure about this. The patch seems incomplete (no sample skins?
no info about what from MathJax to install) and I'm still not convinced
scanning the entire DOM for TeX is a always good. I for sure would need to
be constrained to this skin but would be better if it just scanned specific
divs. Mathjax can do this but the user would have to know what class id's
to put in (either through a simple plugin that would wrap it or some other
docs? I wonder how much of a demand there is now for that anymore with
fMath included in 2.9 and many places still using Wiris? The only people
who'd be writing plain TeX are Math/Engineering professors, and they can
paste that into the fMath editor and get out an image. I wouldn't be
against it as long as it didn't require that full 30MB+ MathJax package to
run. Maybe some more details about the what's required.


On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 4:33 PM, Anthony Whyte <arwhyte at umich.edu> wrote:

> Yup, proposals such as this should be vetted on the sakai-dev list.
>
> anthony whyte | its and mlibrary | university of michigan |
> arwhyte at umich.edu | 517-980-0228
>
>
> On Dec 17, 2013, at 3:29 PM, Neal Caidin wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I haven't seen any comments on this proposal yet. Also, I notice that
> sakai-dev has not been copied. I presume that we should copy in sakai-dev
> list and put an ending date for comments?
>
> FWIW, SAK-25371 seems like it would be a nice function and would be okay
> with me if it is okay with the folks who know the kernel code well. Also
> seems like this is a manageable thing to QA test.
>
> I don't know much about MathJax but it seems like math and science folks
> would love to have Latex support built-in to the editor. This doesn't seem
> like a really big change to Sakai from a technical perspective?
>
> Thanks,
> Neal
>
>
>   Kirschner, Beth <bkirschn at umich.edu>
>  December 12, 2013 at 5:22 PM
> I'd like to propose 2 new features for Sakai 10:
>
> https://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/SAK-25371 - Add Optional Print
> option to Resources "Action" menu. Requires minor kernel change. We're
> currently testing this feature, which will require institutions to
> implement a provider to make it active.
>
> https://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/SAK-22384 - Add MathJax (finally).
> Looks like Waterloo has something in production that needs to be reviewed &
> merged back to trunk when available.
>
> - Beth
>
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