[sakai-pmc] Help on SAM-1943

[Mark J. Norton]

Out of curiosity, why would a new question type in Samigo touch over a 
100 files in Sakai?  This really sounds like a design problem to me, 
though perhaps I'm being naive.

- Mark Norton

On 2/10/2014 8:11 AM, Neal Caidin wrote:
> [PMC and Sakai release team]
>
> Hi,
>
> This is probably more a Sakai release team question but maybe the PMC
> has some guidance here would be appropriate.
>
> This is a new question type for Samigo, Extended Matching Item, which
> has been in production for about a year at UCT in Sakai 2.9 .
>
> https://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/SAM-1943
> https://crucible.sakaiproject.org/cru/SAKTRUNK-37
>
> It is a large patch touching many files (upwards of 100 or so). Lydia
> and Karen say that the patch does not have too many conflicts and they
> would be willing to merge into trunk/Sakai 10. They point out that we
> would need to have the patch tested, as well as make sure there are no
> regressions in other parts of Sakai. My sense is that probably we will
> need to do a full regression on Sakai 10 including Test and Quizzes as
> well as other areas. I hope we will be able to bump up the QA testing
> effort after we cut the branch, because we had good participation up
> till now, but we need a lot more to have confidence in the release.
>
> What do you think? Is this okay to get into Sakai 10 or for a later
> release (either 10.x or Sakai 11)? It might make sense to go ahead an
> add it now, if it seems like a good patch, since the issue of the
> patch's size and the need for QA does not go away for a future release.
> 2 cents.
>
> Thanks,
> Neal
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