[WG: Sakai QA] Sakai 11 proposed schedule

[Neal Caidin]

[sakai-dev, sakai-qa, sakai-pmc (at new apereo.org address)]

Hi All,

On Tuesday, we held a special meeting of the Sakai Core team [1]. The
"special" part was to hold it at a time other than our usual Thursday at 10
am Eastern so that others might have a chance to attend, who normally
cannot make that time.

Based on the discussion we came up with the following schedule [2].
Questions, comments, suggestions, and concerns are all welcome.

2015 April 14 Testing iFrame using Complex tools
2015 May 1 ReflectUtils and Java 8 in trunk
2015 May 11 Morpheus complete
2015 June 5 Identify Scope
2015 June 22 String freeze and cut Sakai 11 branch in Github
2015 August Shift focus to Bug Bashes/ QA
2015 October Release candidate 01
2015 December GA (production release)

This is just a draft. It is based on the current state of Sakai, which
includes that Morpheus (responsive design) is in trunk, as is Dashboard,
and that we are planning to have in the Gradebook Enhancement Project, and
the Lessons Enhancement Project, and hoping, and likely, to get in some
additional Samigo (Test and Quizzes) updates (already a number of updates
in trunk).  We also anticipate some further evolution of Morpheus over the
next month or two.

A couple of notes:
* This schedule provides us the opportunity to use Open Apereo to put the
final touches on Sakai 11 scope, perhaps doing some additional improvements.

* We plan to test the week of April 14, the week after next. Not a full
Morphues test, but testing "inlining", the changes that have been made to
the portal, and undoubtedly could hit some Morphues issues.

* We whether it might be better to branch Sakai 11 later.

* We want to move to Java 8. Java 7 has reached end of life.

* We need to refine our dates a little more from August and later.

* Releasing in the holiday timeframe, December, has significant schedule
risk.


[1] Sakai core team notes - http://etherpad.ctools.org/p/rmmt-2015-03-31

[2] Sakai 11 draft schedule and scope -
https://confluence.sakaiproject.org/display/REL/Sakai+11+Release+Schedule+and+Scope

Thanks,
Neal Caidin
Sakai Community Coordinator
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