[sakai-core-team] Wrapping up Sakai 10.0 - input needed

[Neal Caidin]

[sakai-core-team and sakai-pmc]

Hi Sakai core team,

Sakai 10.0 is in the process of the final steps for a release. The last 
few merges and conversion scripts are getting merged. The groups bug has 
been addressed wrt Sakai 10.0 (more work may be needed later) [1].

The final decision looks like it is about Common Cartridge. We are close 
to being able to say that Sakai 10.0 is CC compliant, but there are a 
couple of code changes that have to happen.

I asked about QA and possible regressions and here is the scoop from 
Charles Hedrick:

 >"To my knowledge, no one else QA’s CC. Basically this is QA. It tests 
the input by loading a set of test cartridges, and tests the output by 
writing cartridges and using an >IMS-supplied validator.
>
>  So far I found two errors:

>* I didn’t recognize the number of points in an essay question, and so 
used 1 point rather than the one specified
>* in output, the new version of the validator is requiring a couple of 
metadata items that looked optional to me in the spec. This is just 
adding some print statements.

>There’s no way there could affect anything other than parsing and 
outputting essay questions.
"

To me, any change introduces some risk, though this seems low. Adding 
print statements sounds very low risk. What do you think? Or is it just 
too late and we should push CC fixes to 10.1 ?

I could think of one QA check as being a quick review of the diff for 
the code, but that might presume someone other than Charles H. is 
familiar with it?


Thanks,
Neal

1) https://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/KNL-1270 - Students are removed 
from groups when added by official rosters
Solution for now is to set authz.synchWithContainingRealm=false and to 
revert https://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/KNL-1250

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