[sakai-pmc] [Building Sakai] Sign up proposal for Sakai 10

[May, Megan Marie]

I agree with Anthony re: incubation.

I've heard a number of dev's raise concern about JSF tools.  My understanding is that this one of them - have those concerns been alleviated?

From: sakai-pmc-bounces at collab.sakaiproject.org [mailto:sakai-pmc-bounces at collab.sakaiproject.org] On Behalf Of Anthony Whyte
Sent: Monday, December 16, 2013 9:37 AM
To: Liu, Peter
Cc: Hirsch, David; sakai-pmc at collab.sakaiproject.org; Rinaldi, Louis; Adam Marshall; sakai-dev at collab.sakaiproject.org
Subject: Re: [sakai-pmc] [Building Sakai] Sign up proposal for Sakai 10

As in the case of skin-manager, I see no need for Signup to seek incubation status under Apereo.  Advance the proposal under the terms of the lazy consensus as has been done with new tool promotions like roster2 and the news tool replacement.

anthony whyte | its and mlibrary | university of michigan | arwhyte at umich.edu<mailto:arwhyte at umich.edu> | 517-980-0228



On Dec 16, 2013, at 9:27 AM, Liu, Peter wrote:


Thanks Adam! You and your team haven been a big supporter all these years for Signup tool.

Steve,

Yale and me will definitely continue supporting the Signup tool in a long haul.  I would be happy to submit a request to Apereo incubation process and need more detail about this process.

Thanks a lot!
Peter

From: Adam Marshall [mailto:adam.marshall at it.ox.ac.uk]
Sent: Monday, December 16, 2013 5:02 AM
To: Steve Swinsburg; Liu, Peter
Cc: Rinaldi, Louis; Hirsch, David; Adam Marshall; Matthew Buckett; Benjamin Holmes
Subject: RE: [Building Sakai] Sign up proposal for Sakai 10

If you need anything from Oxford then please do say.

We will help you to support the tool: we will help to fix bugs where they are deemed to be important, help with documentation but cannot guarantee to add new feature requests if they don't align with our priorities.

Hope this helps.

adam

From: sakai-dev-bounces at collab.sakaiproject.org<mailto:sakai-dev-bounces at collab.sakaiproject.org> [mailto:sakai-dev-bounces at collab.sakaiproject.org] On Behalf Of Steve Swinsburg
Sent: 15 December 2013 23:02
To: Liu, Peter
Cc: Rinaldi, Louis; Hirsch, David; sakai-pmc at collab.sakaiproject.org<mailto:sakai-pmc at collab.sakaiproject.org>; sakai-dev at collab.sakaiproject.org<mailto:sakai-dev at collab.sakaiproject.org>
Subject: Re: [Building Sakai] Sign up proposal for Sakai 10

Peter, would you be open to submitting this tool through the Apereo incubation process?
http://www.apereo.org/content/incubation
That way we can ensure everything is in order.

Whilst I have worked on the tool considerably thanks to various initiatives, and it is an extremely useful tool with some decent integrations and features, a promotion to core is not a drop off point for code to be maintained by others, as the core team of committers are stretched as it is. If Yale was committed to its support for a while, that would be ideal.
cheers,
Steve

On Sat, Dec 14, 2013 at 6:56 AM, Liu, Peter <peter.liu at yale.edu<mailto:peter.liu at yale.edu>> wrote:
Proposal: Promote Sign-Up tool to Core status for Sakai 10

Rationale:
The Yale Sign-up tool[1] was initially introduced to the Sakai community at a BOF during the Dec. 2007 Sakai Conference in Newport[2] after several months' consultation with partner schools on shared functional requirements.[3] Sign-up was first offered as a contrib tool in 2008, and has since been broadly adopted by the worldwide community. Although we don't have data on the exact number of downloads, schools deploying the tool include Michigan, Indiana, Stanford, Yale, UNISA, Virginia, Texas, Florida, Oxford, Cambridge, UC Berkeley, Australian National, Charles Sturt, and Columbia. We also know that Asahi Net clients are actively using the tool.

In last spring's 2013 Sakai Tool Survey[4], the Sign-up tool was the most actively used contrib tool, showing more than twice as much significant use (45% of the 70 schools polled) as all other contrib tools apart from Gradebook2 (35%).

At Yale we have very limited resources to contribute to open-source community initiatives. The sole programmer for Sign-up, Peter Liu, finds it increasingly difficult to keep up with the community's requests for feature additions as the community grows larger.  Peter will continue to support maintenance and development of the tool however he can, and has recently put in considerable effort to add two new functions necessary for core inclusion (time zone conversion and "import from site"). But rather than risk being unable to maintain the foregoing level of tool support as usage increases, we hope that promotion of the tool to core will ensure its continued viability as a supported tool for the entire community.

There is a growing programming community around the Sign-up tool, with Oxford, Michigan and rSmart contributing components of the code and supporting documentation in recent years.  Key Sakai partners such as Steve Swinsburg have offered assistance in promoting the tool to core.

The tool follows Sakai CLE standards for localization and internationalization (we know of three English versions: American, British, Australian, and one Spanish version of the tool).  We are not aware of any security vulnerabilities. The tool has not yet been fully tested for accessibility compliance.

We are in the process of getting the Apereo licensing agreement signed so that this promotion can be considered. Our local Sakai project lead (David Hirsch) has received verbal confirmation from Yale's Director of Technology Licensing that they have no objections to signing the standard Apereo CCLA.
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[1]https://confluence.sakaiproject.org/display/SIGNUP/Home
[2]https://confluence.sakaiproject.org/display/CONF08/Sign-up+tool+BOF<https://confluence.sakaiproject.org/display/CONF08/Sign-up+tool+BOF?src=search>
[3]https://confluence.sakaiproject.org/display/SIGNUP/Requirements+Discussion
[4]https://confluence.sakaiproject.org/display/TCC/Sakai+CLE+Tool+Survey+Results+Q2+2013



Special thanks for David Hirsh, who has worked on this proposal!

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Peter Liu
AITS, Yale University
New Haven, CT

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