[Building Sakai] [sakai2-tcc] Status of 2.9.1 RC01 as of Friday, 30 Nov

[Bryan Holladay]

Is anyone planning on working on this?  If not, then we should remove this
feature for 2.9.1 and put it back in once it's fixed.

-Bryan


On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 10:31 AM, Matthew Jones <matthew at longsight.com>wrote:

> With both of these *easier* fixes in (#1 being the easiest) the gradebook
> would still be slow if the site did have groups and the linked assignments
> actually were grouped.
>
> 1) Fixes the case where the course has no groups at all
> 2) Fixes the case where the course has groups but the linked assignments
> aren't grouped
> 3) (Which is more complex and ideas suggested as comments on the ticket by
> Noah) Fixes the case where the course has groups and the linked assignments
> are grouped.
>
> This seems in testing to be more of a problem (slower) with linking to
> Samigo rather than Assignments, but I'm not sure about Lessons (which also
> links, but unsure if it supports grouping)
>
> The check in testing is about 0.5 - 1 second extra load time for every
> assignment linked to gradebook, so it can get pretty significant, it also
> was filling the log with dozens of error messages.
>
> 2012-11-29 14:14:34,863 ERROR http-bio-42048-exec-28
> org.sakaiproject.tool.assessment.services.assessment.PublishedAssessmentService
> - java.lang.NumberFormatException: For input string:
> "/assignment/a/2012fa-cis-110-190/2630d6ac-2c9a-4bcf-803f-b615b153667c"
>
>
> On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 10:00 AM, Bryan Holladay <holladay at longsight.com>wrote:
>
>> If we could put a band-aide on SAK-22978<https://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/SAK-22978> at
>> a minimum, I would be ok with a 2.9.1 release and have a complete fix for
>> 2.9.2.  A simple band-aide would be two parts:
>>
>> 1) Check if a site has groups before looking up group member items
>> 2) Add a cache in the gradebook service to store the results so it only
>> has to take 15 seconds to load for 1 unlucky user every once in a while
>>
>> Without this minimal fix, my vote is -1
>>
>> -Bryan
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 9:49 AM, Neal Caidin <
>> nealcaidin at sakaifoundation.org> wrote:
>>
>>> [sent to QA, Dev, CLE Release, and TCC lists]
>>>
>>> Hi All,
>>>
>>> We are iffy (uncertain) at this point for the first Release Candidate
>>> for 2.9.1,  2.9.1-rc01,  for next Friday, Dec 7, but still possible.
>>>
>>> The two main issues are whether we will get the updated Help
>>> documentation integrated (SAK-22891). The other is a potential blocker for
>>> performance in the Gradebook -
>>> https://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/SAK-22978 - "Performance issue
>>> with group member items in gradebook (SAK-19668)", which came out of the
>>> new 2.9 feature https://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/SAK-19668 -
>>> "Gradebook - Student Grade Report - items assigned to groups in Tests &
>>> Quizzes, Assignments, and Forums should only appear to group members". One
>>> or both of these issues (SAK-22891 and SAK-22978) could cause delays.
>>> Ideally, we would get both fixed. If SAK-22978 does not get fixed in time,
>>> we might want to consider whether to proceed with 2.9.1 anyway and fix this
>>> problem for 2.9.2. Just a thought. For now, let's wait and see what happens.
>>>
>>> Otherwise, we have a lot of nice fixes for 2.9.1 .  I've made two
>>> temporary filters in Jira:
>>>
>>> "2.9.1 Triage" - lists all the issues that are currently tagged for
>>> 2.9.1 (not all may make it). -
>>> https://jira.sakaiproject.org/secure/IssueNavigator.jspa?mode=hide&requestId=13619
>>> "2.9.1 Triage Review" - lists issues which may need additional review
>>> (development, testing, etc) to get into 2.9.1 -
>>> https://jira.sakaiproject.org/secure/IssueNavigator.jspa?mode=hide&requestId=13620
>>>
>>> At this moment we have 52 issues with the "291triage" tag, out of which
>>> 35 have been fixed and verified, with some already having been merged.
>>>
>>> The basic QA strategy will be to retest the issues that are merged into
>>> 2.9.1-RC01 and look for regressions around those merges.
>>>
>>> Thanks for your attention.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>>
>>>  Neal Caidin
>>>
>>> Sakai CLE Community Coordinator
>>> nealcaidin at sakaifoundation.org
>>> Skype: nealkdin
>>> AIM: ncaidin at aol.com
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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