[sakai-pmc] Feature for 10.3 ?

[Matthew Jones]

I believe we were happy with the trial period of the policy and it was
reviewed and accepted as a good guideline back in 2011. I still reference
and go with it when considering features.

The important qualifications I'd consider are that it is running in
production and that it's non disruptive to the user experience. If it is
disruptive or has i18n changes, then the feature should be able to be
disabled via property so that the schools where it will be disruptive can
leave it disabled.

The problem with even adding a new button somewhere means that any local
schools help or training sessions need to be updated, which we don't like
to do in a minor release. This caused a problem with some features like
extra credit in grade book. A great feature for the next release but I
don't think there was any way to disable it, so not a ideal maintenance
branch candidate.

So for this feature, I don't see any way to disable it and it requires a
couple of new translations. Even though it's been running in production, it
has caused a few regressions. (Which is why we want it to run in
production) I'm all for getting features back into maintenance branches so
schools don't have to worry about maintaining a fork but we also need to
keep the branch stable.

I'm more leaning on target this to 10.x right after the 10.3 release for
10.4 if a property is added to disable it. (Even if all that does is
disable the checkbox) Not so sure about doing it before.

On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 9:41 AM, Neal Caidin <neal.caidin at apereo.org> wrote:

> Thanks Beth.
>
> First line says:
>
> "*This proposal is in effect for a trial period of 6 months, after which
> it should be re-reviewed by the TCC in August 2011." *
> *LOL.  But I guess we can go with this. I think the guidelines are a great
> checklist to think things through. Maybe overdue for a PMC discussion
> though? *
>
> *I will proceed based on those guidelines.*
>
> *-- Neal*
>
>
> On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 9:34 AM, Kirschner, Beth <bkirschn at umich.edu>
> wrote:
>
>>
>> https://confluence.sakaiproject.org/display/TCC/Maintenance+Branch+Merge+Policy
>>
>> On Nov 10, 2014, at 8:45 PM, Neal Caidin <neal.caidin at apereo.org> wrote:
>>
>> > [sakai-pmc and sakai-dev]
>> >
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > There is a new feature [1]  that has been completed and tested for
>> anonymous grading in the Assignment tool.
>> >
>> > Since it is a feature on a maintenance release, do we need to put
>> forward a lazy consensus proposal to get it merged into 10.x (and therefore
>> for 10.3)?
>> >
>> > [1] New feature - https://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/SAK-17606
>> >
>> > Thanks,
>> > Neal Caidin
>> > Sakai Community Coordinator
>> >
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