[Building Sakai] Sakai 3 RC 1 - Development Update

[nicolaas.matthijs at caret.cam.ac.uk]

I just wanted to send out a note in order to inform everyone that
I have done a major update of the K2 (agnostic) development server.

This is sort of interesting because it shows Nathan's latest/last set
of wireframes coming alive. The URL is:

http://131.111.21.17:9090/

and you can create your own account by following the link on the
login page. Do keep in mind that this is very much a moving target
and that some things will not work. Also all of the data will be
removed every time I do a redeploy.

You might also think that the current visual design is less appealing
than the blue sakai (http://3akai.sakaiproject.org), but keep in mind
that these are only wireframes (which conceptually make more sense than
the blue ones) and that visual design will be applied later on.

Some links will point back to the blue design, which will then contain
links to another blue page, ... So it is easy to get lost right now and
you should always attempt to get back to the grey design
(http://131.111.21.17:9090/dev/redesign/).

It's also worth noting that all of the HTML has been reverted (and this is
still very much in progress) to use the Fluid Skinning System.


For the people that would like to have more detail:


The things that should be working are:

- Login
- Registration
- Dashboard (+ reordering, changing layout, adding/removing widgets)
- Some Dashboard widgets
- Search for people
- My contacts
- Invite people to become a contact + accept
- Some of the top bar functionality
- Upload your avatar
- Create a site

- Content authoring
 * Create a page
 * Edit a page
 * Insert a widget (+ some example widgets)
 * New WYSIWYG edit experience
 * Auto-save
 * Page hierarchy
 * Sidebar control
 * Version History of pages
 * edit HTML
 * Preview mode
 * Move a page
 * Save and use page templates
 * Pretty print your page


The things that still need doing:

- User preferences page
- Sending/receiving internal messages
- Profile + Edit profile
- Search for content
- Search for sites
- Widgets + File management
- IM

- Content Authoring / Site Management:
 * Page specific permissions
 * Dashboard pages
 * Edit Site Settings
 * Site member management
 * Site appearance management


Don't hesitate to ask any questions though and try not to hit the
server all at once! Over the next weeks things will be added from time
to time, although we will have to base them on prototyped back-end
functionality sometimes given the current state of K2.


Kind regards,

Nicolaas Matthijs,
CARET, University of Cambridge

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