[Building Sakai] Sakai 11 planning

[Neal Caidin]

[sakai-dev and sakai-pmc]

Hi All,

Today on the Sakai Core team meeting call [a] we started brainstorming 
upcoming versions of Sakai. In the next week or two, we will go into 
more depth in the discussion and review the Sakai 11 strawperson plan 
[b]. We will also be looking for updates from all the major projects 
that are possibly targeting a Sakai 11 (like LEaP, Morpheus, Gradebook, 
etc).

So, two requests for you:

1) Plan on attending the next couple of Sakai Core team calls if at all 
possible [c]. They are still on Thursdays at 10 am Eastern / 7 am 
Pacific/ 2 pm GMT

2) If you are working on major functionality changes please provide a 
status update and a rough time line of what you are thinking at the 
moment. Either write to sakai-dev , sakai-pmc or to me at 
neal.caidin at apereo.org

No decisions or recommendations came out of today's discussion but to 
give you a sense of our discussion, I'll mention a few things. We are 
leaning towards a 10.3 release by December, and would appreciate any 
suggestions about important blocker bugs or fixes that would be useful 
to schools upgrading around the January 2015 timeframe (OMG, we are 
talking about 2015. Didn't 2014 just get here?) .

We discussed possibly defining a Sakai 11 based on what we could 
realistically accomplish by the end of January. We also floated an idea 
that if we have major infrastructure changes (iFrame removal, Morpheus 
for mobile responsive design, etc.) that perhaps we should consider a 
Sakai 12 beta during the Spring to give these major changes plenty of 
time to burn in . Or maybe we extend the deadline for code freeze beyond 
January to get more of a feature rich release. Etc.

Now is the time to start ramping up our discussion and planning before 
the holiday season distracts us all. :-)

Cheers,
Neal

[a] Sakai Core team agenda from today - 
http://etherpad.ctools.org/p/rmmt-2014-10-16
[b] Sakai 11 strawperson - 
https://confluence.sakaiproject.org/display/REL/Sakai+11+straw+man
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-- 
Neal Caidin
Sakai Community Coordinator
Apereo Foundation
neal.caidin at apereo.org
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