[sakai-core-team] Reminder by Thursday - Re: Samigo Tests (and quizzes) Enhancement Project - Feedback Requested from Core Team

[Neal Caidin]

Thanks for the feedback, including off-list. Every little bit helps. We
think we have enough information to move forward.

Thanks on behalf of the STEP team.



On Thu, Jan 8, 2015 at 10:11 AM, Matthew Jones <matthew at longsight.com>
wrote:

> I was thinking that even if you *just* focused on the cleaning up and
> committing the existing patches on the list (of which there are about
> 10-20) it would probably take up all of the time that's available. I'm sure
> you could spend an equal amount of time working on improving performance if
> you had the right person. So it's going likely be an either or.
>
> I just looked at some of the Dayton tickets and for instance the ticket
> SAM-1408 has the comment
> "However, the manner in which this was developed means there will probably
> need to be some further development before this works in out-of-the-box
> Sakai."
>
> And the Longsight jira at SAM-1263 still has outstanding work of providing
> import export and there's a known bug if you have multiple areas to respond
> to that would need to be looked at and fixed.
>
> So just getting in these 2 patches alone is going to be at *least* a day's
> work, possibly more.
>
> I think the best use of time would be getting in these existing patches
> though.
>
> On Thu, Jan 8, 2015 at 10:01 AM, Charles Hedrick <hedrick at rutgers.edu>
> wrote:
>
>> My priorities would be the items from Dayton and Longsight, which
>> shouldn’t require much time. Beyond that SAM-1437 and performance.
>> In addition to the performance issues listed, we’ve got problems with a
>> faculty member who has a huge number of questions in pools. Performance
>> when creating quizzes and items is incredibly slow. It’s hard to estimate
>> time for bugs and performance issues.
>>
>> On Jan 7, 2015, at 9:31 AM, Neal Caidin <neal.caidin at apereo.org> wrote:
>>
>> final reminder. Not much feedback so far.
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>> On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 8:02 AM, Neal Caidin <neal.caidin at apereo.org>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Sakai core team,
>>>
>>> Welcome back to many of you from holiday vacations!
>>>
>>> The STEP team (Samigo Tests Enhancement Project using funds from the
>>> Sakai Virtual Conference)  is looking for feedback from you, if at all
>>> possible by this Thursday. Please see below for details.
>>>
>>> Thanks for your consideration.
>>>
>>> Sincerely,
>>> the STEP team
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Fri, Dec 19, 2014 at 5:22 PM, Neal Caidin <neal.caidin at apereo.org>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>>  Hello Sakai Core Team!
>>>>
>>>> As you may know, the Sakai Virtual Conference registration fees from
>>>> earlier this year have been pooled and earmarked for Sakai development. The
>>>> Sakai Virtual Conference attendees voted and chose Samigo (a.k.a. Tests and
>>>> Quizzes) as the top pick for use of these funds, and a working group has
>>>> been formed to move the Samigo Tests Enhancement Project (STEP) forward.
>>>> Before we outline the scope of the project, we would like to solicit some
>>>> feedback from members of the Sakai Core Team on the items currently under
>>>> consideration for development.
>>>>
>>>> Toward that end, we have compiled a list of new and existing features
>>>> and patches (most drawn from existing Samigo jiras) that we think might
>>>> improve the tool considerably. We realize that not all of these items can
>>>> be addressed with the resources available to STEP. However, before we
>>>> select our top priority items to put out for bid, we would like to get a
>>>> sense of how easy or difficult the items might be to accomplish from a
>>>> developer perspective.
>>>>
>>>> If you could take a little time to look over our list and provide some
>>>> feedback, it would be most appreciated. We have added a column on the right
>>>> called "Comments from Sakai Core Team" to serve as a place for recording
>>>> your feedback. In particular, we are interested in knowing the level of
>>>> difficulty and time needed to implement the items in the list (for example,
>>>> from "very quick/easy" to "impossible"). Several of the items in the list
>>>> already have existing patches that have been contributed by the community,
>>>> so we would also like to know your impressions about the ease/difficulty of
>>>> merging those patches into Core Sakai. Any other thoughts or comments you
>>>> might have are also welcome. Feel free to add additional columns for
>>>> comments if needed.
>>>>
>>>> We have an ambitious time line for the STEP work, so we ask that you
>>>> please provide your feedback by *Friday, January 9th, 2015.*
>>>>
>>>> Link to our item list for feedback:
>>>> https://docs.google.com/a/longsight.com/spreadsheets/d/
>>>> 1oGjv6KplX1j69kR0p8HnpnSv-X7oD6xLhYiGX0JFxFE/edit#gid=0
>>>>
>>>> Thanks in advance for your help, and happy holidays!
>>>>
>>>> Sincerely,
>>>>
>>>> The STEP Working Group
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
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