[sakai-pmc] Executive Summary Sakai 10

Wed May 21 17:21:18 PDT 2014

The problem with acknowledgements is that if you miss someone out, they
feel their contribution isn't valuable. There are also a number of people
that worked on some of those features (volunteer or not) that may not be
part of the organisation. I would drop the binding between feature and
organisation and list everyone in alphabetical order, or not at all.

cheers
Steve

On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 7:21 AM, Neal Caidin <neal.caidin at apereo.org> wrote:

>  Hi PMC,
>
> In addition to the detail release notes for Sakai 10, with a list of every
> feature and contribution we can find and add, I think it would be good to
> have an "Executive Summary" and an "Acknowledgements" area on the release
> notes [1].   I've started these sections and pasting in this email for your
> convenience. If anyone is a talented copy writer/editor, happy to accept
> the help!
>
> Sakai 10 Overview
>
> Sakai 10 builds on the solid work of the Sakai 2.9.3 release. We have two
> new tool contributions, better support for audio and video using HTML 5,
> infrastructure improvements, about 50 security fixes, performance
> improvements, a number of new features, and close to 2,000 fixes!
> Highlights include, but are not limited to:
>
>    - Signup tool, previously a Contrib tool, is now part of Sakai core
>    - Delegated Access tool, previously a Contrib tool, is now part of
>    Sakai core
>    - LTI - first LMS with support for LTI 2.0
>    - Peer graded Assignments
>    - Group Assignments
>    - Test and Quizzes has new question types: Calculated question and
>    Extended Matching Items, improved precision on numeric answers, a new
>    accordion-style interface for quiz setup.
>    - Lessons toolbar has been redesigned and simplified, better support
>    for embedded Audio and video, new Table of Contents feature, support for
>    inline use of polls, and better overall look and feel.
>    - Resources has support for drag and drop adding of files from desktop
>    for all browsers, and support for folder drag and drop in Chrome.
>    - Student pages can be owned by a group as well as individuals
>    - Syllabus Tool updated with a new interface, bulk update of syllabus
>    items, accordion view, and better handling of link migration
>    - Gradebook added support for extra credit.
>    - Distributed Cacheing provides support for JCache/JSR-107 which
>    includes improvement to the default cache sizes and better control by
>    configuration. Session replication to failover from one server to another
>    without losing session data. Overall provides better performance for large
>    Sakai installation (though please note that these features are not turned
>    on by default OOTB).
>    - Security Updates. The Sakai community fixed about 50 security issues
>    including various XSS issues and CSRF issues.  AntiSamy is on by default in
>    Sakai 2.9.3 and Sakai 10. AntiSamy ensures that user supplied HTML/CSS is
>    in compliance within an application's rules.
>    - Student Success Portal - new integration available.
>    - Java - added support for JDK 7.x. JDK 8.x support is in process of
>    being added.
>    - Sakai technical organization simplified. Reincorporated many of the
>    "Indies" to make management of Sakai releases and reporting of issues
>    easier.
>
>
> Sakai 10 Acknowledgements
>
>    - Yale for the contribution of the Signup Tool to Sakai core.
>    - Rutgers for ongoing development of the Lessons tool.
>    - S2U (Spanish speaking users group, a consortium of several
>    institutions) for making many contributions to the Sakai 10 release,
>    especially fixing security issues.
>    - Unicon as the lead and primary contributor for the new Sakai
>    cacheing framework
>    - Longsight for conversion of Audio recording from Java applet to HTML
>    5 based
>    - Sakai documentation group for creating brand new Sakai 10 help
>    documentation and to the Apereo Foundation to fund licensing of the
>    software used to support the effort.
>    - Asahi Net for contribution of the new ElasticSearch engine for the
>    Sakai search tool and as primary contributor for the Resources
>    Drag-and-Drop feature.
>    - Oxford for a new Contrib Search tool - Solr
>    - University of Michigan for CSS contributions to Sakai 10 and in
>    Lessons
>
>
> Questions about these sections
> Is the Sakai 10 Overview too long? Should it be more in prose rather than
> bullet points?
>
> There are some other cool features I know about, but didn't include
> (because it was getting to be a long list!). Examples Project Keitai
> [probably this one needs to be up in that list], some fixes to Forums like
> Ranking / Moving a thread to a different topic/ showing topics with unread
> messages, Messages tool has an improved interface, Joinable Groups, Video
> chat is now in core (though off by default), CK Editor improvements
> including Audio recording, .. and I could probably dig up more candidates
> for the "summary".
>
> Can I start with this as a good starting set of Acknowledgements and
> Crowdsource it? Maybe I should put it in alphabetical order of contributor
> so I don't get into trying to rank the importance of the contributions?
>
> Is it okay to say about 2,000 fixes? I count 1750, which seems like an
> incredible amount of Jiras that went into Sakai 10, but suspect it was
> partially due to the Sakai 2.9 delays and fixes aggregating [2]
>
> [1] Sakai 10 draft release notes (still in progress) -
> https://confluence.sakaiproject.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=86245732
> [2] over 1750 issues fixed - use JQL - fixVersion in
> versionMatches("10.*") and resolution = Fixed
>
> Thanks,
> Neal
>
>
> --
> Neal Caidin
> Sakai Community Coordinator
> Apereo Foundation
> neal.caidin at apereo.org
> Skype me! (but let me know in advance for the first interaction) - nealkdin
>
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