[sakai-core-team] Sakai 10.0 release notes

[Neal Caidin]

Hi PMC,

I've been working on updating the technical requirements for Sakai 10.0 
with the help of the Sakai core team. It occurs to me that it might be 
good for the PMC to review the documentation [1, 2] as it relates to 
policy decisions and messaging. To me the most important of these is 
probably the message we want to send about supporting past releases of 
Sakai?

Here is my draft message:

With the advent of the Sakai 10 series, official Community support for 
Sakai 2.8 ceases and 2.9 is deprecated. Organizations running Sakai 2.9 
and earlier versions are strongly encouraged to upgrade to Sakai 10 in 
order to take advantage of numerous improvements and continued 
maintenance and support. Sakai 2.9 will continue to receive critical 
security patches and selective fixes.


This is my proposed wording. Do we want to say that 2.9 is deprecated 
when Sakai 10 is released? My thinking is that we want to encourage 
everyone to move to Sakai 10 and that this reflects the reality of our 
resource levels and focus? But maybe there are downsides to this 
message, or phrasing it this way, and we should just mention that 
community support for 2.8 ceases? Should we mention that if you are on 
Sakai 2.9, it should be the 2.9.3 version? etc.

Thanks,
Neal

[1] Confluence Release notes - 
https://confluence.sakaiproject.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=86245732
[2] Technical Release notes - https://source.sakaiproject.org/release/10.0/


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Neal Caidin
Sakai Community Coordinator
Apereo Foundation
neal.caidin at apereo.org
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