[Building Sakai] Announcing Dashboard 1.0.0
Adrian Fish
a.fish at lancaster.ac.uk
Fri Apr 13 02:18:36 PDT 2012
I'll do a write up. I've been holding off until the api stabilises a bit
so the info remains valid for a while. As Jim mentions, I'll be
producing a few slides detailing how CLOG and YAFT were integrated.
Cheers,
Adrian.
On 12/04/2012 02:24, Matthew Jones wrote:
> There was a post about a week ago from Adrian talking about how he
> integrated Yaft into Dashboard. I think it's kind of just on people to
> do it (like with entitybroker) :)
>
> http://collab.sakaiproject.org/pipermail/sakai-dev/2012-March/016310.html
>
> Just looking at the code it seems like it involves
> implementingorg.sakaiproject.dash.listener.EventProcessor and creating
> items when specific events related to your tool occur.
>
> Perhaps a more in-depth writeup about this (Allowing a tool that
> doesn't yet use dashboard to use dashboard) exists or will be provided! ;)
>
> I'm sure we'll have this discussion at the conference.
>
> -Matthew
>
> On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 8:59 PM, Steve Swinsburg
> <steve.swinsburg at gmail.com <mailto:steve.swinsburg at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> Very nice.
>
> What are the plans for others tools to participate in the
> dashboard? For example if an instructor adds a forum post to a
> site or a connection request is approved?
>
> I'd also love to have a discussion around how a dashboard such as
> this could replace the My Workspace site altogether, so rather
> than being a collection of tools that you need to navigate to
> individually, it could all be accessible on the one screen.
>
> cheers,
> Steve
>
>
>
>
> On 12/04/2012, at 6:02 AM, Chris Kretler wrote:
>
> > Hello all,
> >
> > We are happy to announce the 1.0.0 release of the Sakai
> Dashboard. The
> > Dashboard is a Contrib tool that provides a user-centric
> synoptic view
> > of "Assignments and Events" -- showing upcoming Assignments and
> Calendar
> > Events -- and "Recent Activity" -- showing updates about Resources,
> > Drop Box files, Assignments and Announcements. The Dashboard
> provides
> > the end user a concise landing spot with links to their most
> pertinent
> > content. It also gives the user the ability to customize the
> interface
> > by starring important items and hiding less critical ones.
> >
> > An overview video can be found here: http://vimeo.com/39203463
> >
> > The 1.0.0 tag of the Dashboard shows activity related to resources,
> > assignments, announcements and calendar events. With a modest
> > development effort, activity related to other types of Sakai
> entities
> > could be shown in the Dashboard. We will provide up-to-date
> information
> > about that process in confluence.
> >
> > The Dashboard has been through several rounds of functional testing.
> > Most known issues have been fixed. There has been no attempt at
> load
> > testing and we would welcome any input from a group with the
> resources
> > to perform load testing.
> >
> > The 1.0.0 tag can be downloaded from subversion at this URL:
> > https://source.sakaiproject.org/contrib/dashboard/tags/1.0.0/
> >
> > The 1.0.0 version of the Dashboard will build and deploy with an
> > unpatched version of sakai trunk or with a patched version of sakai
> > 2.9.x. Revisions are needed in sakai core and kernel to build with
> > 2.9.x. Information about patching the 2.9.x branch of sakai or
> any tag
> > made from that branch can be found in this confluence page:
> > https://confluence.sakaiproject.org/x/zYHSB
> >
> > Details of the Dashboard project are described in this
> confluence page:
> > https://confluence.sakaiproject.org/x/zIWCB
> >
> > Bugs and other issues related to the Dashboard are tracked in
> this JIRA
> > project: https://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/DASH
> >
> > Unresolved issues related to the Dashboard can be found here:
> > https://confluence.sakaiproject.org/x/xYHSB
> >
> > We plan to release a 1.0.1 tag of the Dashboard very soon. We
> expect to
> > include fixes for some or all of the following tickets in the
> 1.0.1 tag:
> >
> > https://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/DASH-216 - Need to expire and
> > purge dashboard items
> > https://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/DASH-225 - "View in Site" link
> > for announcements does not open in site
> > https://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/DASH-228 - Dropbox items shown
> > too widely with confusing info
> > https://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/DASH-220 - Hidden announcements
> > shown in dashboard under some circumstances
> > https://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/DASH-227 - Entity creator does
> > not see some items in dashboard if entity access is restricted
> by group
> > and creator is not in group
> >
> > Additional work has been outlined for inclusion in a 1.1 version
> of the
> > Dashboard, but the scope of that work remains undecided and no
> timetable
> > has been set.
> >
> > We invite contributions of effort to complete further versions
> of the
> > Dashboard, including the 1.0.2 release (if needed) and the 1.1
> version.
> >
> > - The Dashboard Project Team
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Adrian Fish
Software Engineer
B66 Management School
Lancaster University
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