[Deploying Sakai] Fwd: [sakai-nakamura] Call for feedback on Upgrade Bundle technical requirements/design

[Eli Cochran]

Adding oae-production at collab.sakaiproject.org and oae-dev at collab.sakaiproject.org onto the thread. It's going to take us a while to remember these new lists. 

- Eli 

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> From: "Zach A. Thomas" <zach.thomas at gmail.com>
> Date: September 10, 2011 12:57:49 PM PDT
> To: sakai-kernel at googlegroups.com
> Cc: Eli Cochran <eli at media.berkeley.edu>, production at collab.sakaiproject.org, Sakai UI Development <sakai-ui-dev at collab.sakaiproject.org>
> Subject: Re: [Deploying Sakai] [sakai-nakamura] Call for feedback on Upgrade Bundle technical requirements/design
> 
> Your point is well taken that we need to be disciplined about the scope of this (and indeed all) work. I think I can boil the essential requirement down to this: No institution shall need to devote a senior developer for sixty hours to a data conversion to move between version 1.x and 1.y
> 
> Luckily, the scope of the first pass of this capability should fall in the range of not more than a few weeks for one good dev.
> 
> Zach
> On Sep 10, 2011, at 3:26 AM, John Norman wrote:
> 
>> I'd like to see the problem structured a bit more into stages. It seems to me that there are some basic things that are needed immediately, but others that are potentially nice to have and apply to scenarios that we don't yet experience. Manual upgrades are a pain, but I am not sure how much return on investment this work would produce compared to other priorities.
>> 
>> J
>> 
>> On 6 Sep 2011, at 19:01, Eli Cochran wrote:
>> 
>>> Adding the OAE Pilot Support Group and the front-end devs to this thread. 
>>> 
>>> This was one of the high priorities for the pilot support group. 
>>> 
>>> - Eli 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Begin forwarded message:
>>> 
>>>> From: Chris Tweney <chris at media.berkeley.edu>
>>>> Date: September 2, 2011 2:52:11 PM PDT
>>>> To: Nakamura List <sakai-kernel at googlegroups.com>
>>>> Subject: [sakai-nakamura] Call for feedback on Upgrade Bundle technical requirements/design
>>>> Reply-To: sakai-kernel at googlegroups.com
>>>> 
>>>> Nakamurians,
>>>> 
>>>> In the spirit of open community and participation and all those good things, I want to solicit input on requirements for an Upgrade Bundle. This is the long-awaited tool that will provide a uniform, reliable, decoupled framework for tweaking data structures from one release to the next.
>>>> 
>>>> I've put down a sketchy technical requirements/design at [1].
>>>> 
>>>> Please have a look and offer your feedback on list!
>>>> 
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> 
>>>> -chris
>>>> 
>>>> [1] https://confluence.sakaiproject.org/display/KERNDOC/KERN-2147+Upgrade+bundle
>>>> 
>>>> -- 
>>>> Chris Tweney, Senior Software Developer
>>>> Educational Technology Services
>>>> University of California, Berkeley
>>>> chris at media.berkeley.edu
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>> John Norman
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Eli Cochran
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ETS, UC Berkeley

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