[sakai-pmc] Help on SAM-1943

[Anthony Whyte]

> 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 .


My opinion:

A year of production experience is good.  Get a commitment from UCT/OpenCollab (and others) that they will help test the patch in 10.  If commitments are provided, then merge it.

Anth

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On Feb 10, 2014, at 8:31 AM, Sam Ottenhoff wrote:

> A whole lot of the patch is changing comments.  Example: https://crucible.sakaiproject.org/cru/SAKTRUNK-37#CFR-793
> 
> 
> On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 8:28 AM, Mark J. Norton <markjnorton at earthlink.net> wrote:
> 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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