[sakai2-tcc] Status of Websphere/DB2 support for 2.8.0

[David Haines]

While the precedent of gradual depreciation makes sense for working code I don't see why it would have any weight for code that doesn't currently work and that isn't currently used.  

- Dave

David Haines
CTools Developer
Digital Media Commons
University of Michigan 
dlhaines at umich.edu




On Mar 10, 2011, at 4:17 PM, May, Megan Marie wrote:

> I'm not 100% sold on following precedent.    I'd like to know more about the effort/risks so I can better understand how this will impact the 2.8.0 timeline.   
> 
> As I see it, there are two camps that have weighed in:   
> * Removal from the 2.8 release   
> * Mark it as deprecated and slate for 2.9.0 removal.     (I'm not sure where Noah's suggestion of adding logging about the lack of support  impending removal upon startup is)
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: sakai2-tcc-bounces at collab.sakaiproject.org [mailto:sakai2-tcc-bounces at collab.sakaiproject.org] On Behalf Of Seth Theriault
> Sent: Thursday, March 10, 2011 10:21 AM
> To: Anthony Whyte
> Cc: sakai2-tcc Committee; Berg, Alan
> Subject: Re: [sakai2-tcc] Status of Websphere/DB2 support for 2.8.0
> 
> Anthony Whyte wrote:
> 
>> My view is that we follow past precedent with respect to unsupported 
>> code and mark the WAS project as deprecated and slated for removal in 
>> sakai-2.9.0.  I believe that only fair.
>> This provides both a warning to the community and an opportunity, as 
>> Noah rightly notes, for community members, be it IBM or others, to 
>> take over management of the code.
> 
> This still leaves the open question about what to do for the DB2 conversion scripts for the current release. They are indeed broken and no one, including IBM, is working on them.
> 
> Seth
> 
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