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

[John Bush]

-1 Seems like there is a maintainability question here, as others have
already brought up.  I'm fine with things living in contrib,
especially competing tools, just don't see a compelling reason for
adoption here.

On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 12:38 PM, Beth Kirschner <bkirschn at umich.edu> wrote:
> Having not received any further discussion, I'd like to open this issue for a vote, with the voting OPEN until Friday, August 19th at 23:59 UTC.
>
> As a reminder, this is a public, on-list vote with a "+1" signifying approval. Per our governance documents, a -1 vote must be accompanied by a detailed explanation. A single -1 vote based on a material objection will block action. However, -1 blocking votes can be overridden by a 2/3 majority roll call vote of active TCC members.
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> - Beth
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> On Aug 11, 2011, at 4:41 PM, May, Megan Marie wrote:
>
>> So where does that put us?    It seems like the proposal as is has a number of concerns.  Is there an alternative path?
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: sakai2-tcc-bounces at collab.sakaiproject.org [mailto:sakai2-tcc-bounces at collab.sakaiproject.org] On Behalf Of Seth Theriault
>> Sent: Wednesday, August 10, 2011 9:59 AM
>> To: Beth Kirschner
>> Cc: sakai2-tcc Committee
>> Subject: Re: [sakai2-tcc] DISCUSS: Tool Promotions & Deprecations for 2.9: News Feeds
>>
>> Beth Kirschner wrote:
>>
>>> If we wanted to include the News Feeds as a core tool, it would be
>>> leap-frogging provisional (stealth) status -- perhaps introducing it
>>> as a stealthed tool would be better? Is there any dependency on the
>>> Sakai contrib wicket project, or does the new News Feeds pull directly
>>> from the Apache Wicket project?
>>> Who would be supporting the News Feeds tool? How many institutions are
>>> currently running this tool in production?
>>
>> I have been using News Feeds for quite a while now. In my experience, the thing just runs and is a major improvement over the current tool.
>>
>> Maintaining the beta wicketstuff-dojo artifact locally has been a pet peeve of mine for a while (can't we get this in a repo
>> somewhere?) but that really goes straight to the heart of the NFS-61.
>>
>> Seth
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