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

Mon Dec 16 15:14:06 PST 2013

Conversely, if a tool developer wishes to progress through incubation, as
Peter has indicated, I see no reason to object to that. The incubation
process is designed to assist developers in ensuring that licensing,
accessibility and internationalisation is squared away, that builds are
standardised, that the development and support model is sustainable and to
answer any questions. This is not an intrusive process. The developers get
one on one assistance and at the end the project will be a sponsored by
Apereo.

On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 1:36 AM, Anthony Whyte <arwhyte at umich.edu> wrote:

> 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 | 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<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;
> 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> 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.
> ------------------------------
> [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!
>
> -------------------------------------------
> Peter Liu
> AITS, Yale University
> New Haven, CT
>
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