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

[Steve Swinsburg]

Public community announcement, the swinsborg will be offline this weekend attending to other volunteer duties. Sorry for any inconvenience caused ;)

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On 24/08/2012, at 13:38, Charles Severance <csev at umich.edu> wrote:

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> On Aug 23, 2012, at 11:22 PM, Gregory Guthrie wrote:
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>> Thanks - I realize that I phrased this poorly! My mistake and apologies.
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> No problem - you left yourself sooooo open I figured it was my duty to give you a little nudge in fun :)
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>> 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!
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> 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.
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> /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.
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> Also it is supposed to be mostly self-documenting.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> /Chuck