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

[Eli Cochran]

Happy to share but as Ray pointed out to me, if we'd had 30 more minutes to work on this, we'd have made it a configuration. 

- Eli 

On Aug 25, 2011, at 12:34 PM, Clay Fenlason wrote:

> 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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>>> Educational Technology Services, U.C. Berkeley
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Eli Cochran
project manager, CalCentral project
manager of user experience design
Educational Technology Services, U.C. Berkeley

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