[Building Sakai] Change the Sakai CLE release date policy ?

[Neal Caidin]

>"Frequency of Updates. Sakai has not had significant updates in years
(only bug fixes), and the fixes that do occur are annual, which is not
frequently enough. The LMS candidates that we are investigating update
tools, add functionality, and address bugs much more frequently."

Yeah, that is clearly not a true statement. We have had lots of tool
updates over the last couple of years and plan many more for Sakai 11.
Major ones, not just minor tweaks. I was hoping to edit this video
recording of a recent presentation a little better before sending out the
link, but this includes a good summary of Sakai 10 release and the Sakai 11
roadmap [1].

I'm not seeing in your links where Moodle guarantees 2 month release cycles
for maintenance releases?

Our maintenance release cycle depends on a number of factors, needs of
Sakai institutions based on feedback and collective knowledge and
understanding of the academic calendar (which is tricky, since it varies),
Sakai developer availability to fix bugs, community resources for QA
testing, and, of course, the results of testing (e.g. if we find a new bug
during QA testing, we need more time to get the bug fixed and retest).

[1] Sakai 10 release and the Sakai 11 roadmap -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibeiIyNwPUY&list=UUzDbnWaP_5kd6HpvDUjoT4Q

Cheers,
Neal



On Wed, Aug 6, 2014 at 11:36 AM, <yleny at laposte.net> wrote:

>
> Hello,
>
> Maybe Sakai CLE developpers need to change the release date policy because
> of this example :
> I found this blog post when I made research about Sakai CLE and I think
> that Sakai CLE developpers need to read it to improve Sakai CLE for a
> better LMS for the users.
>
> The LMS Transition Initiative
> http://wheel.ucdavis.edu/lms/
> extract :
> "Frequency of Updates. Sakai has not had significant updates in years
> (only bug fixes), and the fixes that do occur are annual, which is not
> frequently enough. The LMS candidates that we are investigating update
> tools, add functionality, and address bugs much more frequently."
>
> When you take a look at all official releases of Sakai CLE web page (that
> I have created), grouped by branch in reverse chronological order:
> Sakai Release Date list
> https://confluence.sakaiproject.org/display/DOC/Sakai+Release+Date+list
> you can see that users neeed to wait 3 months for a minor release (2.9.x)
> and 10 months between a major release (from 2.9.3 to 2.10.0) and  it's only
> 2 months between a minor release for Moodle.
> All official releases of Moodle, grouped by branch in reverse
> chronological order:
> http://docs.moodle.org/dev/Releases
>
> For the to support policy, you can compare these two tables :
> For Moodle  :
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moodle#Releases
> and
> for Sakai CLE
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sakai_CLE#Releases
>
> Is it possible to have a minor release every two months to fix the bugs,
> to have minor improvements and to have the latest translations ?
>
> Best regards
>
> Yannick
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