[Deploying Sakai] OAE, who's going to use email out

[Clay Fenlason]

PS Thanks for the code sample

~C

On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 3:27 PM, Clay Fenlason
<clay.fenlason at et.gatech.edu> wrote:
> Was kidding.
>
> At any rate, I do note that one of the areas of refinement in the 1.1
> plan has to do with email and notification behavior [1]. I'm not
> certain of the details, but concerns raised in these areas would seem
> to be timely.
>
> ~Clay
>
> [1] https://confluence.sakaiproject.org/x/oJGCB
>
> On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 3:20 PM, Eli Cochran <eli at media.berkeley.edu> wrote:
>> Nope. What we did was to disable the email in the UI by making the following change:
>>
>> dev/lib/sakai/sakai.api.communication.js
>>
>> 66 66   var toUsers = "";              // aggregates all message recipients
>> 67 67   var sendDone = false;          // has the send been issued?
>> +  68
>> +  69   // Begin CalCentral change
>> +  70   // Block email delivery of OAE Messages for now.
>> +  71           sendMail = false;
>> +  72   // End CalCentral change
>> 68 73
>> 69 74   ///////////////////////
>> 70 75   // UTILITY FUNCTIONS //
>>
>> The commit can be found here:
>> https://github.com/ets-berkeley-edu/3akai-ux/commit/4991c942ec2aca93f0acb099706c96cdca1a0b5f
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Eli
>>
>> On Aug 25, 2011, at 12:00 PM, Clay Fenlason wrote:
>>
>>> We had the same impression - when the email bug was fixed we were
>>> quickly reminded of the issue. Did your disabling involve restoring
>>> the bug?
>>>
>>> ~Clay
>>>
>>> On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 1:09 PM, Eli Cochran <eli at media.berkeley.edu> wrote:
>>>> A question (or two) for the OAE Pilot Support Group, (OPS-G?)
>>>> Here at Berkeley we've disabled email-out because there isn't a UI that
>>>> allows users set email preferences as to which messages they received. We
>>>> see a risk that the amount of email generated will discourage use of the
>>>> system.
>>>> So there are a couple of questions here:
>>>> - Who has email turned on for their pilot, or will have email turned on?
>>>> - Is this an issue that we want to escalate to the URG?
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Eli
>>>> . . . . . . . . . . .  .  .   .    .      .         .              .
>>>>              .
>>>> Eli Cochran
>>>> User Interaction Developer &
>>>> Manager of User Experience Design
>>>> Educational Technology Services, UC Berkeley
>>>> "The opportunity lost by increasing the amount of blank space is gained back
>>>> with enhanced attention to what remains."
>>>>     - John Maeda
>>>>
>>>>
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>> Eli Cochran
>> project manager, CalCentral project
>> manager of user experience design
>> Educational Technology Services, U.C. Berkeley
>>
>> "A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away."
>>    - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
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