[sakai2-tcc] DISCUSS: Tool Promotions & Deprecations for 2.9: News Feeds

[Beth Kirschner]

At the LA Project Coordination Meetings the News Feeds tool was proposed for the 2.9 release as a core tool alternative to the News Tool, and at the same time, the current News tool would be deprecated. The News Feeds tool is currently a (ufp) contrib tool and would need to be migrated to the Sakai repository in order to be included in the Sakai 2.9 release. I'd like to put it to a vote next week, but please share any concerns or questions now. I've pasted previous comments on the News Feeds tool below.

Thanks,
- Beth

Begin forwarded message:

> From: Jean-Francois Leveque <jean-francois.leveque at upmc.fr>
> Date: August 1, 2011 9:14:34 AM EDT
> To: Steve Swinsburg <steve.swinsburg at gmail.com>
> Cc: sakai2-tcc at collab.sakaiproject.org
> Subject: Re: [sakai2-tcc] News Feeds Issue
> 
> Is the answer Maintenance Team, then?
> 
> On 01/08/2011 15:13, Steve Swinsburg wrote:
>> Nuno Fernandes originally wrote the News Feeds tool but he is no longer active in Sakai.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On 01/08/2011, at 11:05 PM, Jean-Francois Leveque wrote:
>> 
>>> Option 3 seems the only good one in the long run.
>>> 
>>> BTW, who was supporting News and who will support News Feeds?
>>> 
>>> J-F
>>> 
>>> On 01/08/2011 14:25, Steve Swinsburg wrote:
>>>> Hi all,
>>>> 
>>>> As per Megans email, we need to discuss the News feeds tool. We
>>>> discussed including it at the LA meeting but it was only afterwards that
>>>> an issue came to light when we tried to bring its library versions up to
>>>> date. Lets discuss our options on this one.
>>>> 
>>>> 1. Keep it on Wicket 1.3.x - will make the tool work but will mean it is
>>>> depending on an old (and likely soon to be unsupported) version of Wicket.
>>>> 
>>>> 2. Fix wicketstuff-dojo - requires work on an external project, which
>>>> seems abandoned by the developers themselves since when it was brought
>>>> across, half of the classes were missing.
>>>> 
>>>> 3. Rewrite the Options page in the tool to not use wicketstuff-dojo.
>>>> 
>>>> https://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/NFS-61
>>>> 
>>>> cheers,
>>>> Steve
>>>> 
>>>