[WG: Sakai QA] Easy tool description overrides lost in 2.6?

[Ray Davis]

Thanks, Stephen -- moving our shared/lib-deployed "tools.properties" 
file under that directory did the trick.

Since Cape Town and Berkeley were both affected by this change, do you 
think it warrants a mention in the release notes?

Best,
Ray

On 6/2/2009 11:32 PM, Stephen Marquard wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Try:
> 
> config/localization/bundles/src/bundle/org/sakaiproject/localization/bundle/tool/tools_en.properties
> 
> An example from our production build overlay:
> 
> http://source.cet.uct.ac.za/svn/sakai/src_mods/trunk/config/localization/bundles/src/bundle/org/sakaiproject/localization/bundle/tool/tools_en.properties 
> 
> Regards
> Stephen
> 
> Stephen Marquard, Learning Technologies Co-ordinator
> Centre for Educational Technology, University of Cape Town
> http://www.cet.uct.ac.za
> Email/IM/XMPP: stephen.marquard at uct.ac.za 
> Phone: +27-21-650-5037 Cell: +27-83-500-5290 
> 
> 
>>>> Ray Davis <ray at media.berkeley.edu> 2009/06/03 02:02 AM >>>
> For a couple of releases now, we've been overriding some tool names and 
> descriptions by deploying an overriding "tools.properties" file to the 
> top of the shared classpath, thus avoiding a branch. Beth Kirschner 
> mentions that approach in passing here:
> 
> http://osdir.com/ml/cms.sakai.production/2008-08/msg00015.html 
> 
> But so far I haven't bumped into actual documentation of this 
> configuration feature, and it looks from our local QA testing as if it 
> may have been lost in the K1 shuffle. (For obvious reasons, regressions 
> to configuration and customizing features are likely to be missed by the 
> standard QA process, and undocumented configuration especially so.) If 
> so, was the loss intentional? If not so, should the file go to a new 
> location?
> 
> Thanks,
> Ray
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