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

[Matthew Jones]

Yea, that's kind of why I anyone could continue using the 2.9 and earlier
Gradebook which is pretty solid. The documentation that exists mentions
really old versions of tomcat and Sakai so I imagine if anyone is running
it, that they are probably still running Sakai 2.4 or 2.5. We've just be
carrying along all this old code and having random problems when it doesn't
compile and it's unable to be tested. Though I wasn't 100% sure. I expected
that if Berkeley or IU didn't say anything then it was probably good to
pull out.

Though in the gradebook case, nearly all of the test cases are in the
standalone app. I would be nice to preserve the ones that can still work
here. So I might not do a full cleanup, as much as I did with sections
anyway. Or maybe these tests need to be moved around a little. Haven't
tried to do anything with gradebook yet.


On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 8:59 AM, Sam Ottenhoff <ottenhoff at longsight.com>wrote:

> I imagine there are 1 or 2 people in this community who have experimented
> or used the standalone versions of these tools, and a survey would be a
> pretty inefficient way of finding them.
>
>
> On Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 2:47 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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