[Contrib: Evaluation System] Updating evals to build against 2.6

[Stephen Marquard]

Hi all,

There was some previous discussion on-list about updating evaluations to build against Sakai 2.6 rather than 2.5.

There is a functional requirement for this for sites running evals in 2.6 or later which is described in http://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/EVALSYS-984. So far the only known solution is to build evals against 2.6 rather than 2.5 (pom updates).

So unless anyone knows of another solution to EVALSYS-984 or there's some type of pom profile fix, we have a situation where the same poms cannot be used for both 2.5 and 2.6, putting the burden on one or another group to adjust them locally (or maintain a local branch).

In my view the right thing to do here is to update them to build against 2.6 by default, and place the burden on changing poms on sites running older code, as 2.5 is no longer a supported Sakai release, and there are more sites running evals with 2.6 than 2.5 (c/f http://confluence.sakaiproject.org/display/EVALSYS/Adopters).

So far it seems only UMD and Georgia Tech would be negatively affected by this (to the extent of needing to maintain local pom patches or a local branch), all other sites would benefit.

Please give your opinion (and/or any alternate suggestions) so we can resolve the issue.

Regards
Stephen



 

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