[Using Sakai] sakai-user Digest, Vol 42, Issue 31

[Gregory Guthrie]

Thanks for the education and orientation!

And yes, I've already gotten some good help and advice from The Sakai expert you reference...

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Charles Severance [mailto:csev at umich.edu]
> Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2012 10:39 PM
> To: sakai-user at collab.sakaiproject.org
> Cc: Gregory Guthrie; Steve Swinsburg
> Subject: Re: [Using Sakai] sakai-user Digest, Vol 42, Issue 31
> 
> 
> On Aug 23, 2012, at 11:22 PM, Gregory Guthrie wrote:
> 
> > Thanks - I realize that I phrased this poorly! My mistake and apologies.
> 
> No problem - you left yourself sooooo open I figured it was my duty to give you a little nudge
> in fun :)
> 
> > I just meant that I thought there were probably some test cases and examples
> somewhere, and I just didn't know enough about the policies and process to find them. Maybe
> not, again I was asking as a naïve newcomer to the project!
> 
> The /direct was never a core part of Sakai back in 2003.  Sakai was all about APIs,
> Interfaces and SOAP Web Services when it was born.
> 
> /direct was originally an underground movement by the pro-REST folks and it grew rather
> organically for a while and ultimately like all good skunkworks projects went mainstream and
> became part of the core.   But while is is really cool - there are missing bits that only get
> fixed when someone feels the pain - so it is a moving target.   Since it is usually pretty
> incomplete and a moving target - folks prefer to work on improving it than documenting the
> current partially-complete state.
> 
> Also it is supposed to be mostly self-documenting.
> 
> And because we all have the source code it is too easy to ask a question and have the
> SwinsBorg swoop in and answer it.
> 
> www.swinsborg.com is better than www.google.com when it comes to Sakai questions.  The
> www.swinsborg.com uses analog technologies for its search algorithm which yields a single
> result that is perfectly relevant for each query.
> 
> /Chuck