[Building Sakai] Site Management Patch

[Zhen Qian]

Adrian and Steve:

We didn't use the site property approach. We assume those sites with  
"site.template" in its id to be template sites. The performance  
problem was due to the process of getting all sites and filter out  
those with "site.template" inside site ids. I am not sure about the  
performance nowadays for searching site list based on a site  
property, though.

Other difference between SAK-12868 and SAK-16419 are: In SAK-12868,  
template are grouped by site types. If user selects "use template",  
he can late change site information, but not the tool list. The site  
members are not copied, but the tool contents are. The target site id  
is not settable, either.

I think setting template site during run time is a desired feature.  
It is also good to give user more options like whether copy members/ 
contents over or not.  We will need to do performance testing first.  
We might also need to work on the UI a little bit - the site creation  
wizard already has a lot of steps!

Thanks,

- Zhen


On May 26, 2009, at 8:45 AM, Adrian Fish wrote:

> I did have a look at that patch and was put off by the fact that  
> the template ids are read from sakai.properties - it will be a real  
> pain to have to schedule downtimes just to pick up a new template  
> site id. This way seems more  dynamic; tag a site as a 'template'  
> and it's picked up straight away. If there is a 2 minute delay due  
> to db lookups with 10K of sites then that is a bummer, admittedly.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Adrian.
>
> Steve Swinsburg wrote:
>> Hi John,
>> we needed a way to configure this at runtime from any site that we  
>> mark as a template and not necessarily copy content, just the  
>> tools, much the same way as the copySite webservice works.
>>
>> Having to have a certain siteid such as what SAK-12868 does is a  
>> little cumbersome, especially if the site is well established and  
>> you want to copy content as you can't change the siteId  
>> afterwards. Our patch allows any site to be marked as a template.
>>
>> It might be useful to join forces here, using our property method  
>> and the EntityTransferrer method to transfer content if desired.
>>
>> cheers,
>> Steve
>>
>> ---
>> Steve Swinsburg
>> Portal Systems Developer
>> Centre for e-Science
>> Lancaster University
>> Lancaster
>> LA1 4YT
>>
>> email: s.swinsburg at lancaster.ac.uk  
>> <mailto:s.swinsburg at lancaster.ac.uk>
>> phone: +44 (0) 1524 594870
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On 26 May 2009, at 12:28, John Leasia wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Adrian,
>>> also see SAK-12868 which added a template capability.
>>>
>>> John
>>>
>>> Adrian Fish wrote:
>>>> If anybody's interested I've added a feature request and patch  
>>>> for the site-manage tool to JIRA. It allows you to mark any site  
>>>> as a template and then create sites from those templates via the  
>>>> site-manage tool. It'll make my life as a Sakai admin easier, it  
>>>> might do the same for you ...
>>>>
>>>> http://jira.sakaiproject.org/jira/browse/SAK-16419
>>>>
>>>> Cheers,
>>>>
>>>> Adrian.
>>>>
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