[Building Sakai] Assignments 2: 1.0 RC 1

[Venstra, Elizabeth]

Beth,

Here is a document we've made available to end users here at Indiana about the differences.  I'm not sure if this is what you need or not.  Also, I'm not confident that it's fully up to date; its last "approved" date is about a year ago.  I'll be taking care of that soon, I hope . . . 

Best,


Elizabeth Venstra
Knowledge Management team
University Information Technology Services
Indiana University
erytting at indiana.edu
812-855-0459

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Message: 7
Date: Mon, 16 May 2011 10:50:30 -0400
From: Beth Kirschner <bkirschn at umich.edu>
Subject: Re: [Building Sakai] Assignments 2: 1.0 RC 1
To: Steven Githens <swgithen at mtu.edu>
Cc: "sakai-dev at collab.sakaiproject.org"
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Hi Steve,

   I haven't had the time to run a close comparison, but I'm wondering if anyone has done a functional comparison between Assignments 1 and 2? I'm wondering how big the functionality gap is and when that gap is expected to be closed?

Thanks!
- Beth

On May 15, 2011, at 11:00 PM, Steven Githens wrote:

> Hello Sakai Dev!
> 
> It's been a while, but we are happy to have a new tag of Assignments 2 
> ready for testing.  Release Candidate 1 is available here:
> 
> https://source.sakaiproject.org/contrib/assignment2/tags/1.0-rc-1
> 
> This incorporates several semesters worth of testing, bug fixes and 
> functionality additions.  For those interested in testing this out, 
> svn checkout the code above and open up the top level README.html for 
> build instructions.  There is a script to adjust the build for you're 
> version of Sakai.  Currently we support 2.7.x, 2.8.x, and Trunk (2.9).
> 
> New stuff includes:
> - Reworking of permissions for various tasks
> - Improved Gradebook interaction and syncing
> - Lot's of work on our Turnitin and OSP integration.
> - Improved bulk uploading and downloading
> - User interface improvements based on user testing and feedback from 
> production support
> - Lot's of bug fixes.
> 
> We plan on releasing the final 1.0 in the next week or two before the 
> conference.  Todo items before then include:
> - More documentation
> - A concurrent release of the Turnitin Module that streamlines the 
> install and setup process for A2 (currently being finalized)
> - Minor tweaks to our setup and build scripts (currently, you need to 
> have an existing Sakai build locally to run the environment setup 
> script.)
> 
> Any feedback, questions, testing reports are greatly appreciated!
> 
> Cheers,
> Steve
> 
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