[Building Sakai] 2.8 potential scope

[Adam Marshall]

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| From: sakai-dev-bounces at collab.sakaiproject.org [mailto:sakai-dev-
| bounces at collab.sakaiproject.org] On Behalf Of Clay Fenlason
| Sent: 25 May 2010 14:15
| To: sakai-dev at collab.sakaiproject.org Developers
| Subject: [Building Sakai] 2.8 potential scope
| 
| I'm reviewing a number of likely or potential product changes for a
| 2.8, as raw material for a series of discussions leading into project
| coordination meetings in Denver. 
| 
| CKEditor: replacing fckeditor with ckeditor came up late last year,
| and at the time it seemed desirable both for technical stability and
| accessibility reasons. I don't have a good grasp on how difficult the
| work would be to work this change through in all tools, or who could
| do it. Is it still the consensus view that this would be a good move,
| and is anyone in a position to take on this work?

A big +1 from me on this one.

| 
| Deprecations: a number of items were raised by the maintenance team
| earlier this year, and that list should probably be refreshed and
| considered.

I heard a horrible rumour that 'Search' was on the hit list for removal. I wouldn't agree with this at all. We've been running it for 2 years now with very few problems and a huge number of benefits. 

Where does one find this list?

| 
| New tools: the leading candidate right now seems to be assignment 2,
| but there are open questions about its timeline and we'd have to think
| through implications for what happens with the legacy assignments
| tool. OpenSyllabus may be another, but I don't have a recent update on
| its status.
| 

Assignments2: It may just be me but I don't really understand the implications of doing this - what do we gain and what do we lose? 

Adam