[Building Sakai] Vote on SAK-13375 - Defaults for Email Archive in Project SItes

[John Norman]

#2 seems the logical choice to me.

John

On 22 Aug 2010, at 15:23, csev wrote:

> In anticipation of Sakai 2.8, I am cleaning up a few old JIRAs assigned to me.  This JIRA:
> 
> http://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/SAK-13375
> 
> It was filed in 2008 by Adam Marshall.
> 
> Is a proposal to change the default on who can post to an E-Mail archive in a project site.  Currently project sites and course sites have the same default configuration - Instructor/maintain can send mail and Student/access can only see mail.
> 
> Adam postulates (and I agree) that this default makes little sense and the default for project sites should be changed.   
> 
> But the default has been this way for a *very long time* and so before I change that default, I figure I would give a shout-out to the wisdom of crowds for some input.  There are effectively one of three choices:
> 
> 1.  Do nothing - leave the default for email archive for project sites alone
> 
> 2.  Change the default for new installs and document the how to change the default in existing installs using the admin UI (very easy and takes less than 2 minutes)
> 
> 3.  Change the default for new installs and make a conversion script for 2.8 that changes it for existing installs
> 
> If I don't get a conclusive answer from the crowd by Saturday August 29, 2010, I will choose #2.
> 
> If you have an opinion on this, put a comment in the JIRA or send me a note.  I will tally the results and go with the wisdom of the crowds on this one.
> 
> /Chuck
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