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

[Matthew Jones]

It looks like the most complex form element on the Options page is the Drag
and Drop ordering that is (was) provided by the wicketstuff.dojo.

I don't believe a valid option is to keep it at an old version, and I don't
think we can continue this functionality if wicketstuff are deciding to drop
it. Upgrading 1.4 and replacing it with something like jquery-ui draggable
seems like the best option. However as Steve said, this would be a decent
amount of work.

The tool is a very nice upgrade over the existing news tool, and it would be
unfortunate if it just stayed in contrib, but without any named support that
might be where it remains.

So the only viable options really are:
1) Someone (or some group) decides to update and fix the drag/drop ui
elements
2) We leave it out of core and in contrib as-is

On Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 11:18 PM, Steve Swinsburg
<steve.swinsburg at gmail.com>wrote:

> The issue with News Feeds is that the version of Wicket it was written with
> is unsupported (1.3 series). This was successfully upgraded to 1.4, however
> it also includes an additional library, wicket-dojo, which is incomplete in
> 1.4 and seems to be abandoned as a whole stack of classes are missing.
>
> They need to be migrated, however this requires work outside of Sakai (i.e.
> it would need to be done in the wicketstuff source repo and a release cut)
> and won't happen unless anyone is willing to devote time to a different
> project (wicketstuff).
>
> All of this is noted here: https://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/NFS-61
>
> My recommendations are to either keep it at the unsupported 1.3.x series of
> Wicket (not a good idea though), or rewrite the options page to not use
> WicketStuff dojo (significant investment of time unless we can get Nuno to
> do it).
>
> In both cases, work is required before this can be considered as an
> addition to 2.9.
>
> regards,
> Steve
>
>
>
> On 10/08/2011, at 7:07 AM, Beth Kirschner wrote:
>
> 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
>
>
>
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