[Building Sakai] [Deploying Sakai] Issue in 2.7.x content branch from 18 May to 1 Aug

[Daniel Robinson]

Hi Stephen,

We updated our production instance of 2.8.x late June and have some worksites experiencing what seems to be the same problem.

We'd appreciate any help you can offer with the cleanup scripts.

Best wishes,

Daniel

On 5 Aug 2011, at 14:13, Anthony Whyte wrote:

> The ticket in question that tracks this issue is SAK-20280.
> 
> https://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/SAK-20280
> 
> It appears that 2.8.x was also affected by this bug between r92647 (Mon 5 May 2011) and r96021 (Mon 1 Aug 2011).
> 
> Second, a cursory review of the commits associated with SAK-20280 suggests that the content.properties commit r92656 (Thur 5 May 2011) is missing from 2.8.x but the properties file change was indeed merged (r92657) though linked to SAK-20264.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Anthony
> 
> 
> On Aug 5, 2011, at 3:47 AM, Stephen Marquard wrote:
> 
>> Hi all,
>> 
>> There was a bug in the 2.7.x content branch between r93034 (Wed 18 May)
>> and r95999 (Mon 1 Aug) which led to incorrect release and retract dates
>> being set on content folders or items whose properties were updated
>> (e.g. setting a quota on a site's resources folder, or updating a
>> description). This does not affect any 2.7 releases, only the
>> maintenance branch between 2.7.1 and 2.7.2 (still to be released).
>> 
>> The effect of the bug was to set a release date of the current date
>> (when it was revised) with a retract date 7 days later. Hence in due
>> course, many resources (and entire folder structures) became hidden
>> unexpectedly.
>> 
>> If you had this code in production at any time, your users may have
>> been exposed to this issue (and may not realise it until some time
>> later). We unfortunately fell into this trap at UCT, and have written
>> some cleanup scripts to fix the affected resources which we can share if
>> anyone else runs into the same situation.
>> 
>> Regards
>> Stephen
>> 
>> 
>> Stephen Marquard, Learning Technologies Co-ordinator
>> Centre for Educational Technology, University of Cape Town
>> http://www.cet.uct.ac.za
>> Email/IM/XMPP: stephen.marquard at uct.ac.za 
>> Phone: +27-21-650-5037 Cell: +27-83-500-5290 
>> 
>> 
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