[WG: Sakai QA] Proposal - By default we should turn on new features in Sakai 10

[Neal Caidin]

There were three +1 votes on this : Beth Kirshner, Steve Swinsburg, and 
Alan Berg. No -1 votes. Monday, December 16 was the last day for input. 
By lazy consensus this proposal has passed . Please see below.

Thanks,
Neal


> Neal Caidin <mailto:neal.caidin at apereo.org>
> December 11, 2013 at 10:05 AM
> [sakai-dev, sakai-pmc, sakai-qa]
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> I’m not sure if this needs a proposal or not, but seems like a good 
> idea to put this out in the community and get a discussion going.
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> Proposal:
> By default we should plan on turning on all new features for Sakai 10 
> in source code, by default, except for features with performance or 
> security concerns, or settings which are too ambiguous to guess at a 
> standard need across institutions.
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> Rationale:
> New features are more likely to be QA tested and adopted if they are 
> turned on. Institutions are therefore more likely to reap the benefit 
> of the work put into developing the feature, and we are more likely to 
> improve the quality of the feature over time, since more institutions, 
> by default, will be using it.
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> Implications
> Our current process is that the defaults are set in source code and 
> documentation is added to default.sakai.properties, the place where 
> the property can be set to override default behavior. This proposal 
> does not change the current process for adding properties to Sakai. It 
> will still be easy for any given institution to turn off a feature 
> they don’t want by setting the value they need in sakai.properties or 
> local.properties (which I believe is recommended and best practice).
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> For Sakai 10 we are documenting which features to turn on [1]. 
> Essentially we are using the criteria in this proposal as our lens for 
> our recommendations already.
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> Community input and Decision making:
> A material objection raised by a Sakai PMC member will block this 
> proposal.  Other opinions are welcome, indeed encouraged.  Silence 
> equals consent. Input must be received by Monday, December 16, close 
> of business, your time zone.
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> [1] - https://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/SAK-23912
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> Thanks,
> Neal
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> Neal Caidin
> Sakai Community Coordinator
> neal.caidin at apereo.org <mailto:neal.caidin at apereo.org>
> Skype: nealkdin
> Twitter: ncaidin
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Neal Caidin
Sakai Community Coordinator
Apereo Foundation
neal.caidin at apereo.org
Skype me! (but let me know in advance for the first interaction) - nealkdin

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