[Building Sakai] Portal NEO Prefix

[Poindexter, David Ray]

Charles,

To be fair, the "age" of 2.9 that you're citing is since official release.
I am suspecting you aren't really intending institutions just pick up a
version the day it's released.

Dave was likely referring to the lifespan of 2.9 development, including
the RC releases which you must admit are quite a bit older than the
official release.

And this is an important topic; one that, quite frankly, I'm shocked is
just now being discussed. That said, it must be discussed as this is
causing all kinds of issues with deployments (pretty sure we all wanted
people to take up 2.9, right?) and many tools with broken styling due to
this craziness with the skin and naming.

Let's be reasonable. The change that adversely affected users should have
been caught. It was not, but has been now. Let's deal with it.
--

David Poindexter

Systems Analyst

Enterprise Student Systems

UITS

Indiana University

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On 3/18/13 10:31 AM, "Adams, David" <da1 at vt.edu> wrote:

>Chuck Severance wrote:
>> Changing the meaning of the default skin in the behavior in the portal
>>now that 2.9
>> is almost a year old will also cause confusion and breakage.
>
>2.9 is at most five months old. Very very few places have deployed it. In
>any case, what other bugs have we decided to keep around because they
>were already in a release?
>
>> breaking the architecture of the portal and its ability to have
>>multiple simultaneous skins
>
>... is not being asked for.
>
>> in order to avoid fixing tools in 4-5 places
>
>... is NOT why this is a bug. You keep bringing this back to the tools.
>No one else is defending the tools. This thread--the issue we are all
>talking about--is that the portal now works in a confusing way for skin
>developers because the default.skin property is now broken.
>
>> I don't understand how if enough people vote that wrong becomes right.
>
>I assume that people vote for what they think is right. Personally, I
>think the current workings of the skin.default property are broken and
>will waste a lot of time and effort in the future and will contribute to
>the general impression that Sakai is sloppy software.
>
>-dave
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