[Building Sakai] Removing the old Sakai 2.8 skins and supporting templates from Sakai 10

[Noah Botimer]

Agreed. Surprise configurations are impossible for developers to discover and test. The "DHTML more sites" was a fun one that made ripples for years.

If we don't think people should use something and don't plan to maintain it, get rid of it.

Thanks,
-Noah

On Nov 27, 2013, at 11:14 AM, Matthew Jones wrote:

> I'd remove the code and anything to support old templates.  Anything we're not QAing or using and just complicates software maintenance and future bug fixes.
> 
> I like the flexibility of Sakai, but often it's these options that are by default disabled that cause the most problems. So I think that *most* everything should either just be enabled by default (and disabled if it is locally undesired) or removed completely rather left disabled and hidden.
> 
> 
> On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 10:59 AM, Charles Severance <csev at umich.edu> wrote:
> I have the following JIRA:
> 
> https://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/SAK-25414
> 
> Describing the removal of the Sakai 2.8 skins and templates from Sakai 10.  The code to support multiple skins and templates will be unchanged so schools can restore the old templates if they like and use settings to switch back and forth.
> 
> But since we won't be doing QA on the old skins and templates and won't take bugs on them the code should be removed for Sakai 10.
> 
> Comments welcome.
> 
> /Chuck
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