[sakai-core-team] Sakai 10.0 release notes

[Neal Caidin]

Okay, I mentioned because I was hearing that we strongly are encouraging 
the community to move to Sakai 10.

[1] If we say "... strongly encouraged to upgrade to the latest versions 
of Sakai 2.9 or Sakai 10 in order to take advantage of continued 
maintenance support."

Perhaps it should be something like this:

[2] "With the advent of the Sakai 10 series, official Community support 
for Sakai 2.8 ceases. The latest versions of Sakai 10 and Sakai 2.9 are 
the community supported releases. Organizations running Sakai 2.8 and 
earlier versions are strongly encouraged to upgrade to Sakai 10 in order 
to take advantage of numerous improvements and continued maintenance and 
support."

The phrasing in [2] explicitly acknowledges that Sakai 2.9 is supported, 
but encourages Sakai 10 adoption more explicitly.

Does that seem better, or don't rock the boat and just stick with the 
original phrasing [1] ?

Thanks,
Neal




> Seth Theriault <mailto:slt at columbia.edu>
> June 18, 2014 at 2:01 PM
>
> No, we never say "deprecated." We only announce the end of support for
> the n-2 version.
>
> For example, from the 2.9.0 release page:
>
> "With the advent of the Sakai 2.9 series, official Community support
> for Sakai 2.7 ceases. Organizations running Sakai 2.7 (or earlier
> versions) are strongly encouraged to upgrade to the latest versions of
> Sakai 2.8 or 2.9 in order to take advantage of continued maintenance
> support."
>
> (http://source.sakaiproject.org/release/2.9.0/)
>
> Seth
>
> Neal Caidin <mailto:neal.caidin at apereo.org>
> June 18, 2014 at 11:07 AM
> 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/
>
>

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