[Building Sakai] [Management] Gradebook Situation

[Mark Norton]

 > Gradebook 2 includes an indispensable library which is licensed under GPL

Well, that was a pretty silly thing to do.  We've managed to steer clear 
of GPL code for the entire lifetime of Sakai (with the possible 
exception of MySQL).  That, at a minimum, needs to be fixed, IMO.

- Mark Norton

Clay Fenlason wrote:
> We started to talk about the state of various gradebook tools at the
> Project Coordination meetings in Denver, and some discussion between
> Kirk, Karen and I has followed since, so an update is in order.  I
> wanted also to communicate the information more widely and make sure
> the rest of the community was aware.
>
> You can find an overview of the gradebook situation in Confluence [1],
> where the information will be revised as the situation develops.
> Questions and comments welcome, though you'll notice we don't have
> answers to every question yet.
>
> Please note in particular the next step planned around 2.8. In
> mid-August UCDavis and IU are planning to come together to agree on
> the final details of a common data model, and it's expected that this
> work (including conversion scripts) could be completed by the
> projected code freeze in mid-September
>
> ~Clay
>
> [1] http://confluence.sakaiproject.org//x/_hIhB
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