[Building Sakai] [sakai-pmc] Removing standalone modes for sections/gradebook

[John Bush]

+1 on getting rid of standalone stuff, I can't imagine anyone is using that.

On Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 12:47 PM, Matthew Jones <matthew at longsight.com> wrote:
> 2 issues are considered blockers for the release of Sakai 10
>
> https://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/SAK-23918
> https://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/SAK-23917
>
> These are both related to sections and gradebook depending on impl's that
> have been moved into edu-services. The cross between edu-services and these
> tools isn't completely clean and much of it is continued support for the a
> feature called "standalone". I've never ran this feature, only read about it
> in some of the old docs. Nobody on the release call was running these tools
> "standalone". The documentation on this mode is over 7 years old and it
> seemed to imply you did need some parts of Sakai to get it to run. The
> release team call suggestion is to just remove standalone capability from
> these tools in Sakai 10. This would simplify the code in these tools and
> remove these dependencies.
>
> However, before I committed this I wanted to a check to verify nobody
> outside of the call was using this mode and would miss it. If so would they
> consider supporting the work to fix this dependency problem and test this
> mode. The alternative I could think of would probably be profiles specific
> for the standalone mode which would only compile these standalone classes
> and include these dependencies when specifically enabled.
>
> Obviously they would remain in versions of Sakai 2.9 and earlier.
>
> I plan to commit the removal of these next week if there is no dissenting
> opinion. I've done this locally for sections and it seems to work fine,
> gradebook looks like a little more involved.
>
> Thanks!
>
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