[Building Sakai] Sakai 11 planning

[Adam Marshall]

For what it's worth, I don't think we should consider releasing sakai 11 unless Morpheus is included. Whether this is a fully completed Morpheus or just the framework with some gaps is a moot point. 

We should also aim for a frameless system.

I believe that Sakai is at a stage where it's got to show real progress especially in the UI. (UI after all is what 98% of users judge a system on.) 

To me it's more important to 'get it right' rather than do a release every year.

adam

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Dr A C Marshall, WebLearn Service Manager, University of Oxford.
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-----Original Message-----
From: sakai-dev-bounces at collab.sakaiproject.org [mailto:sakai-dev-bounces at collab.sakaiproject.org] On Behalf Of Neal Caidin
Sent: 16 October 2014 20:36
To: sakai-dev
Cc: sakai-pmc at collab.sakaiproject.org
Subject: [Building Sakai] Sakai 11 planning

[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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