[sakai2-tcc] IMPORTANT: Help needed for 2.8

[Seth Theriault]

Hello,

This is important, so please read it carefully.

There is an ongoing discussion among the Release Management folks 
about revising the date for the first 2.8.0-rc01 release 
candidate (currently next Tuesday, 11 January 2011). This is 
because of the presence of a number of blocker issues and a 
concern that too few QA resources have been volunteered in 
support of functional testing.

While no decision or recommendation has been made, it seems clear 
that 2.8 continues to struggle for any number of reasons and that 
any delay in the release of an RC tag could endanger the current 
1 March 2011 target date.
 
As such, we need your help to release 2.8 in a timely fashion. 
Some concrete ways to help include:

- If you are a tool or project lead, please verify that all bugs 
  and approved features that are supposed to appear in the 2.8 
  release are actually there. If you have specific test plans or 
  the like, make them public. If you have SQL conversions, make 
  sure they are the Jira tickets are marked.

- If you know of or direct QA resources, we need to muster them.  
  Please coordinate with Alan Berg to find out where the greatest 
  need exists.

- Review the current 2.8 critical+blocker list and if you have 
  expertise on any of these or can provide help, make yourself 
  known:

https://jira.sakaiproject.org/secure/IssueNavigator.jspa?mode=hide&requestId=12539

- Volunteer to help out with the release notes, verify conversion 
scripts, etc.

Again, getting the a good-quality 2.8 release out the door will 
allow the TCC to continue its work for 2.9 and the outstanding 
maintenance releases.

Thanks,

Seth