[WG: Sakai QA] [sakai2-tcc] sakai-2.8.0 update (IE9 issues)

[Beth Kirschner]

If we release 2.8 as it stands now, it will be with a known problem that necessitates a 2.8.1 fairly soon. While the IE9 usage is currently low (here at UM and probably elsewhere), it is likely to grow. While the timing is unfortunate, it would seem to generate a lot of busy work to plan on 2 releases (2.8 and 2.8.1) within a relatively short time period. 

I vote for building an additional release candidate with _only_ the KNL-697 change, and target the 2.8.0 release for mid-April.

- Beth

On Mar 29, 2011, at 4:14 PM, Anthony Whyte wrote:

> This is release prep week for sakai-2.8.0 but the recent release of Microsoft IE9 has intersected with our release timeline in a less than harmonious manner.  Preliminary testing reveals that both the FCKEditor and CKEditor need to be upgraded in order to address IE9 incompatibilities.  IE9-related tickets have also been filed against tools such as Messages and Forums and Profile2.
> 
> Matt Jones of Michigan has produced a kernel patch (KNL-697) that forces IE9 to emulate IE8 by enabling compatibility mode in the request filter.   The patch can be enabled/disabled by the following sakai property: 
> 
> sakai.X-UA-Compatible=IE=EmulateIE8
> 
> KNL-697 does not depend on CKEditor/FCKEditor upgrades or any other IE9-related fixes.  Noah Botimer plans to clean up, document, test and then commit both FCKeditor/CKeditor for 2.8.1.
> 
> The question before us is whether or not we proceed with the release knowing that sakai-2.8.0 is currently incompatible with IE9 or instead produce a release candidate that includes the KNL-697 kernel fix?
> 
> My own view is that we should cut another release candidate this week in order for QA to test the KNL-697 patch; releasing sakai-2.8.0 without a workaround for IE9 incompatibilities will doom it to an early grave (when users subject it to IE9) and consign a good deal of release work to the category of wasted effort.
> 
> But what say you?  Proceed with the release as is or get the Jones patch in place and tested?
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Anth
> 
> 
> IE9 tickets (so far)
> 
> https://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/KNL-697 Create compatibility patch for IE9
> 
> https://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/SAK-20296 upgrade FCkEditor to 3.5.2 to support IE9
> https://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/SAK-20058 Upgrade CKeditor to 2.6.6 to support IE9
> 
> https://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/MSGCNTR-495 IE9 - Issue - Race condition can freeze browser when modifying Email address for forwarding in Messages - Settings
> https://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/PRFL-580 IE9 issue - HTML editor in Staff information does not allow you to add a return after writing a word
> https://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/PRFL-480 direct/profile/{userid}/image sent without correct HTTP headers
> https://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/SAK-20284 IE 9 issue - Calendar widget does not pop up when trying to set Due date for Gradebook item_______________________________________________
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