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

[Noah Botimer]

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I would like to see our functionality improve over time. If it is clear that this is a better tool for the job, we should focus on the issue of what appears to be a small maintenance burden. Otherwise, tomato - tomato; pick it from contrib if you like it better. (Guess that doesn't work well in print.)

Thanks,
-Noah

On Aug 9, 2011, at 5:07 PM, 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 Nuno Fernandes originally wrote the News Feeds tool but he is no longer active in Sakai.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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