[Building Sakai] sprited portal

[Charles Severance]

I agree with Matt here - casting the TCC as an uber-judge panel on all things is a mistake.

If someone does not like an idea they should just say so on this list.  There is no need to push things to a committee right away.  This dev list is where we work things out.

If there is severe disagreement on this list that seems to have no chance of converging after a good chunk of talk, the TCC is there to "unstick" us.

But so far - it seems that most on the dev list support this new direction.

/Chuck

On Apr 11, 2013, at 9:45 AM, Matthew Jones wrote:

> Anything committed to trunk doesn't need explicit TCC approval. The TCC can provide advice or direction but doesn't need to be consulted on every issue.
> 
> This came up last month on the dev list. http://collab.sakaiproject.org/pipermail/sakai-dev/2013-February/021176.html and it looks like Gonzalo decided to try it out. It's possible that the negatives of this change mentioned may outweigh the positives so it would be worth reverting. There shouldn't be anything wrong with reverting any change that doesn't improve the code.
> 
> 
> On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 1:01 AM, Steve Swinsburg <steve.swinsburg at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm a bit concerned about local skins and needing to change the icons. Right now its a simple matter of dropping in a new icon and adjusting the CSS. With this sprite change, you'd either need to change the sprite or change the CSS to refer to a standalone image, thus adding back in the HTTP requests. 
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> And browsers cache the images anyway, so wouldn't the HTTP requests be eliminated anyway (except for first page load)? Maybe we should put in more aggressive cache settings if that is an issue.
> 
> Also, did this change go through the TCC? IMO this is a fairly major change that impacts everyone with a custom skin.
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