[Building Sakai] URGENT - Samigo: statistics do not show when random draw from pool is used

David Horwitz david.horwitz at uct.ac.za
Wed Mar 14 13:34:31 PDT 2012


The UCT 2.8 msub branch includes this fix and some of the performance 
optimisations that haven't been merged back. People are welcome to use 
this as a post-2.8.3 if they want (this is what Wits is doing)

D


On 03/14/2012 08:47 PM, Karen Tsao wrote:
> After discussing within the Samigo team, we agree with Sam and Matthew 
> that this is more like a new feature instead of a bug. So we would 
> like to be more conservative and decide not to merge to 2.8.x.
>
> For schools want  to have this feature, please follow Sam's 
> instruction above to merge code from trunk.
>
> Thanks,
> Karen
>
>
> On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 3:41 PM, Matthew Jones <matthew at longsight.com 
> <mailto:matthew at longsight.com>> wrote:
>
>     I agree, msub is the place for this in a 2.8 world. This is what
>     it looks like UCT did for it today on revision (105667)
>     https://source.sakaiproject.org/svn//msub/uct.ac.za/samigo-2.8.3/
>
>     That way it at least has some confirmation that it is tested and
>     running in production somewhere. Any change of this
>     size definitely has the possibility of causing regressions or edge
>     cases and rarely gets the QA it needs. There are also related
>     issues, some of them open, I can't tell if they are regressions or
>     not without further investigation.
>
>     People depend on these .x branches for blocker/critical bug fixes
>     and this looks like a minor feature request had been requested 6
>     years ago and was fixed 2 years ago.
>
>     However Samigo is a rare project in the CLE that has it's own team
>     and can release how they want, but I would still advise that this
>     be kept in a separate institutional branch or a some type of
>     separate feature-backport branch.
>
>     -Matthew
>
>
>     On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 6:12 PM, Sam Ottenhoff
>     <ottenhoff at longsight.com <mailto:ottenhoff at longsight.com>> wrote:
>
>         SAM-1620 could be interpreted as a new feature, and the Sakai
>         community has agreed not to introduce large, new features into
>         maintenance branches.  The idea of the maintenance branch is
>         to create a stable environment for bug fixes only.
>
>         Institutions that want to introduce new features into their
>         environment need to learn how to use the "svn merge" command
>         to bring a feature from trunk into their local code.
>
>         The basic process of merging a fix from trunk to a branch:
>
>           $ cd your-local-samigo
>           $ svn merge -c ######
>         https://source.sakaiproject.org/svn/sam/trunk/
>
>         To figure out what the "#####", you need to go into JIRA and
>         investigate the "Subversion Commits" tab.   SAM-1620 is
>         extremely complex so you will need to ignore all of the many
>         branch commits and look for the final commit made to trunk.
>
>         --Sam
>
>
>         On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 6:01 PM, David Wafula
>         <davidwaf at gmail.com <mailto:davidwaf at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>             Thanks Karen,
>             That explains why nothing was changing. Now, correct me if
>             am wrong
>             please. SAM-1620 seems to suggest this was never fixed in
>             2.8.x ,
>             right?
>             As it stands, to fix this, I have to get the diff against
>             trunk and
>             apply it to 2.8.3 ?  So will appreciate the patch for
>             2.8.x..especially .3
>
>             thanks.
>
>             On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 7:33 PM, Karen Tsao
>             <ktsao at stanford.edu <mailto:ktsao at stanford.edu>> wrote:
>             > Hi David,
>             >
>             > SAM-1552 is not for fixing the Statistics link issue,
>             you will need to apply
>             > SAM-1620.
>             >
>             > Thanks,
>             > Karen
>             >
>             >
>             > On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 10:19 AM, David Wafula
>             <davidwaf at gmail.com <mailto:davidwaf at gmail.com>> wrote:
>             >>
>             >> Hi Karen
>             >> I realize i actually used
>             >> https://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/SAM-1552 to for
>             the changes.  And
>             >> yes, it is Samigo 2.8.3, and  it is not working.
>             >>
>             >> Thanks.
>             >>
>             >> On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 5:56 PM, Karen Tsao
>             <ktsao at stanford.edu <mailto:ktsao at stanford.edu>> wrote:
>             >> > Hi David,
>             >> >
>             >> > So you applied the all changes in SAM-1620
>             successfully but still not
>             >> > see
>             >> > the Statistics link for assessments which contain
>             random draw from pool?
>             >> >
>             >> > You have Samigo 2.8.3 but use the patch for trunk? I
>             am not sure if this
>             >> > is
>             >> > reason. But I will work merging the changes to 2.8.x
>             now. Maybe you can
>             >> > try
>             >> > to apply that?
>             >> >
>             >> > Thanks,
>             >> > Karen
>             >> >
>             >> > On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 7:44 AM, David Wafula
>             <davidwaf at gmail.com <mailto:davidwaf at gmail.com>>
>             >> > wrote:
>             >> >>
>             >> >> Anyone out there? Thanks.
>             >> >>
>             >> >> On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 3:38 PM, David Wafula
>             <davidwaf at gmail.com <mailto:davidwaf at gmail.com>>
>             >> >> wrote:
>             >> >> > Dear all,
>             >> >> > I have tried over 3 days now and am out of options:
>             >> >> > https://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/SAM-1620
>             >> >> >
>             >> >> > This patch fails in my case. We are running Samigo
>             2.8.3 under Sakai
>             >> >> > 2.8.0
>             >> >> > I event went directly into the code and even
>             modified the sql in
>             >> >> > question, as suggested, but no luck.  Statistics
>             do not show when
>             >> >> > random draw from pool is used.
>             >> >> >
>             >> >> > Anyone who has ever  got this working, please help.
>             >> >> >
>             >> >> > --
>             >> >> > David Wafula
>             >> >> > University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.
>             >> >>
>             >> >>
>             >> >>
>             >> >> --
>             >> >> David Wafula
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