[sakai-pmc] Executive Summary Sakai 10

[Neal Caidin]

True. But it is also more meaningful, imho, to link organizations with 
specific contributions. But you are right, it is tricky for the reasons 
you mention. In theory Crowdsourcing the acknowledgements would be a 
solution but from my experience I am doubtful that will be effective.

Perhaps your strategy is the best one. Still a chance of missing an 
institution, but maybe if the Sakai core team and PMC and Sakai 
Commercial Affiliates could help, maybe we could get it 80-90% right.

?

Thanks,
Neal


> Steve Swinsburg <mailto:steve.swinsburg at gmail.com>
> May 21, 2014 at 8:21 PM
> 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
>
>
>
> Neal Caidin <mailto:neal.caidin at apereo.org>
> May 21, 2014 at 3:21 PM
> 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
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