[Building Sakai] Core tools with significant planned 2.7 changes

[Silverio, Gonzalo]

Hi,

The UI changes are documented in the attachments to SAK-13736. There was back and forth because there were a few iterations and three institutions involved. I do not think they alter the user experience radically, really. This branch has been in use at Michigan for over a year with good results. Regarding the parallel work - David will be providing a summary of what that entailed.

Best,

    -Gonzalo

On 7/20/09 11:39 AM, "Clay Fenlason" <khomotso at gmail.com> wrote:

Re: Forums, perhaps "sweeping set of changes" goes too far, but if I
start digging into JIRAs and just read through SAK-13736 [1] I find a
fair bit of back and forth about what's really happening, and what
looks like a complex set of UI changes in a subtask (SAK-15535),
issues raised off-list, etc. Just a first impression, but it reads
like a significant volume of activity with some challenge of
coordination, and a not inconsiderable refinement of the UX.

Is there someone who would be in a position to fully document the
user-facing change represented? It's not clear what every change
listed means, exactly. It looks like Gonzalo might be the authority,
but a number of things are happening there in parallel, and David made
some attempt to knit them together in another umbrella JIRA ... I'm
not sure who's in a position to draw it all together.

~Clay

[1] http://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/SAK-13736

On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 11:19 AM, John Norman<john at caret.cam.ac.uk> wrote:
> The description of Forums in this message seems at odds with the
> following quote from the page "A final release, Sakai 2.7 [...]  The
> user experience will not undergo any drastic changes and will remain
> relatively consistent through the end of the 2.x series to provide
> stability for local documentation and training materials and
> customizations"
>
> Looking at the page though, the changes listed read like less than
> "sweeping set of feature and UI changes" - but that doesn't mean such
> changes are not in the code...
>
> The K2 JIRA roadmap link appears to take me to the K1 JIRA
>
> The link to the preview of Sakai 3 functionality will need to be
> updated from 3akai. I think Nico is going to update the demo server
> for the 131.111.21.17 server in the next day or so. That will then
> become the preferred preview for Sakai 3. At that point 3akai will
> become a 'Proof of Concept' for which aspects of Sakai 3 work on Sakai
> 2. Some server renaming may be appropriate at that point.
>
> John
>
> On 20 Jul 2009, at 14:33, Clay Fenlason wrote:
>
>> I'm reviewing the list Peter collected of planned feature changes
>> across various tools. [1]  The focus of this list is changes to
>> existing code and capabilities, not, e.g., entirely new tools (I'm
>> bracketing and setting aside that latter concern right now). So far
>> the following stand out to me as areas of particular risk:
>>
>> (1) Forums - an apparently sweeping set of feature and UI changes,
>> with involvement from IU, Michigan, and UCT
>> (2) Site Info/Worksite setup - a set of changes which, while not
>> dramatic, carry a greater risk because they touch on matters of site
>> membership and site creation workflows
>> (3) Skin/markup changes - it's not clear how significant these changes
>> are, or if they're backward compatible, but there seems to be a strong
>> need for both documentation and some skin testing
>>
>> I suppose I have a few questions, for those who know more detail - is
>> that page accurate, and are there other things there on that page that
>> catch your eye?
>>
>> --
>> Clay
>>
>> [1] http://confluence.sakaiproject.org/x/6ICTAQ
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