[Building Sakai] Is 2.9 officially released yet?

[David Adams]

Hi Neal,
The source.sakaiproject.org/release is what I was talking about. I see that it's been updated now. Speaking of the www.sakaiproject.org site, though, it feels like it's become much harder, or at least more confusing, to find a link to download the source or the binaries.

Most open source projects have a "download" link on the front page that leads to direct links to the source and binaries. For Sakai, you have to go to "Try Sakai CLE" (not where I would assume I'd find the download link) and then click the "download and install" or "get source code" links embedded in the body text, whereas my instinct is to look for download links on the left or right columns of the page.

I don't know if you can do anything about that, or if anyone even agrees with me that this is confusing and sort of looks like we're trying to hide the download and source links. Just a thought.

-dave

Neal Caidin wrote:
> Hi David (and all),
>
> Yes, as Matt says I plan to send the official announcement out today. Can you please point out where that documentation still points to 2.9?
>
> We have updated the documentation at:
>
> https://confluence.sakaiproject.org/display/DOC/Sakai+CLE+2.9+release+notes
>
> and
>
> http://source.sakaiproject.org/release
>
> But somebody pointed out to me this morning that this is now outdated:
> http://www.sakaiproject.org/node/2261 - clicking on CLE Release sends you to - http://www.sakaiproject.org/cle-release
>
> Is that the place you are seeing that is out of date?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Neal Caidin
> Sakai CLE Community Coordinator
> nealcaidin at sakaifoundation.org<mailto:nealcaidin at sakaifoundation.org>
> skype: nealkdin
>
>
>
>
> On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 9:25 AM, Matthew Jones <matthew at longsight.com<mailto:matthew at longsight.com>> wrote:
> 2.9.0 rolled out to QA servers last week. We were just doing some verification and document updates the last few days based on some missing information from the lists. An announcement should be coming really soon.
>
> I'd say the code is safe to checkout and won't change until 2.9.1. There *was* a very small change made last night to the reference (library) that made the new tutorial tool non-functional and caused some javascript errors immediately. Reference was retagged because of this. because it was missing a comma in a javascript file.. I rebuilt and deployed the artifacts to correct this single error. So anyone that picked up the tag from Friday->Last night (EST) would want to update this file.
>
> https://source.sakaiproject.org/svn/reference/branches/sakai-2.9.x/library/src/webapp/js/jquery/qtip/tutorial.js
>
>
> On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 8:48 AM, David Adams <da1 at vt.edu<mailto:da1 at vt.edu>> wrote:
> Last Thursday, there was a note that the 2.9.0 release process was underway and would take a few hours. I see there is a sakai-2.9.0 tag (which was not finalized when I first checked it out late last week), and there has been plenty of discussion about the details of what works with 2.9.0 etc. But I haven't seen any announcement, official or otherwise, to indicate the status of the 2.9.0 release. The sakaiproject.org<http://sakaiproject.org> website points to 2.8.2 as the current release.
>
> So, is the 2.9.0 release process complete? Still being verified? Is the code safe to check out and start working with as if it were final, or should we wait? Thanks!
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> Virginia Tech Learning Technologies
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