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

[Anthony Whyte]

Yes.

Anth


On Jun 3, 2009, at 2:51 PM, Ray Davis wrote:

> 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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