[Building Sakai] Sakai 2.4.x End-of-Life?

[Makoto Tsuchitani]

On Mar 18, 2009, at 11:58 AM, Knoop, Peter wrote:

> Sakai 2.4.0 was released in May 2007 with a goal of two-years of  
> maintenance support for the Sakai 2.4 series.  We are nearing the  
> end of that period, so I would like to take a brief poll of those  
> institutions that are still running Sakai 2.4 in production to find  
> out what your plans are for the future (see below.)
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> We have not had the resources to make regular maintenance releases,  
> however, as we have been able to do for Sakai 2.5, so those with  
> Sakai 2.4 deployed have had to follow the 2.4.x maintenance branch  
> for patches.  Soo Kim, Steve Githens and Steve Swinsburg are  
> currently serving as the volunteer branch managers, merging  
> applicable bug fixes developed for more recent versions of Sakai  
> back to 2.4.x.  (Thanks, guys!)  If there is sufficient interest,  
> and volunteers from the community continue to help out, then 2.4.x  
> maintenance branch can likely be supported in an unofficial capacity  
> past the original two-year goal.
>
> It is important to note, however, that as Sakai continues to evolve  
> and move forward it becomes more difficult to merge patches back to  
> the 2.4.x maintenance branch.  There are already some bug fixes that  
> cannot be applied to 2.4.x, as the Sakai codebase has changed too  
> dramatically over time, and the resources have not been available to  
> develop 2.4-specific versions of those patches.  At some point it  
> will become too difficult for the resources available to address  
> bugs in the 2.4.x maintenance branch, and the Sakai 2.4 series will  
> have to be retired.
>
> So, if you're currently running Sakai 2.4, here's a quick poll:
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> 1) What version of Sakai 2.4 are you running?
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> a) 2.4.0
> b) 2.4.1
> c) 2.4.0 or 2.4.1, plus patches pulled form the 2.4.x maintenance  
> branch
> d) the head of the 2.4.x maintenance branch

d) the head of the 2.4.x maintenance branch

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> 2) When do you plan to upgrade to a newer version of Sakai?

January 2010

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> 3) To what version of Sakai do you plan to upgrade?

v2.6.x


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> Thanks for your feedback!
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> -peter
> Sakai Project Coordinator
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