[Building Sakai] Sakai Indie Projects

[Earle Nietzel]

hooray +1 for retiring indies and those pesky overlays.


On Tue, Jun 4, 2013 at 2:28 PM, Noah Botimer <botimer at umich.edu> wrote:

> This is really a question best asked on the sakai-dev list. I have CC'd
> it. Briefly...
>
> There was an effort to allow modules / tools to be released by their teams
> distinct from the main CLE releases. The "indie" is shorthand for
> "independently released".
>
> The basis of this effort was to distribute these larger, independently
> maintained modules as binaries and change the main checkout to omit their
> source to save time and simplify the working copy for developers.
>
> Initially, the indie projects were those like Samigo, Message Center, and
> Profile 2.
>
> However, we have since found that most developers prefer to check out all
> of the source, so the SVN externals were adjusted in the parallel "-all"
> branches. These simply include all of the modules and exclude the
> "core-deploy" module that does the binary installation for indies.
>
> There is discussion around eliminating the indie project pattern and
> reverting to a single, comprehensive checkout, amongst other
> simplifications to the build, release, and deployment processes. Some of
> these ideas were discussed on Sunday:
>
>
> https://confluence.sakaiproject.org/display/TCC/2013+Apereo+TCC+Meeting+Notes
>
> The most specific background and proposal on this topic is the linked PDF:
>
>
> https://confluence.sakaiproject.org/download/attachments/83035608/cle-release-process-proposal.pdf
>
> There will surely be updates sent to the community as this is discussed
> and further changes are planned.
>
> Thanks,
> -Noah
>
> On Jun 4, 2013, at 2:15 PM, Vimalesh Jegannathan wrote:
>
> Hi Nicola / Botimer,
>
> Can you give a back ground about the Indie project ?
>
> Thanks
> Vimalesh
>
> On Tue, Jun 4, 2013 at 2:12 PM, Bhuvaneswari N <bhuvik at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>  Hi,
>>
>> We are analysing Sakai LMS and
>> We have got to understand about the sakai  indie projects.
>> Why are they kept only in -all sakai source version?
>> Are all of the modules keep getting enhanced all the time?
>> What is the main reason and why they are quoted as 'indie'?
>>
>> Could you please help us to understand better?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> N.Bhuvana
>>
>
>
>
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