[sakai2-tcc] Towards a fulltime coordinator

[Aaron Zeckoski]

https://confluence.sakaiproject.org/display/REL/Release+Management+Working+Group
-AZ


On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 9:07 AM, May, Megan Marie <mmmay at indiana.edu> wrote:
> How about the release management section?
>
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> From: sakai2-tcc-bounces at collab.sakaiproject.org [mailto:sakai2-tcc-bounces at collab.sakaiproject.org] On Behalf Of Aaron Zeckoski
> Sent: Monday, April 02, 2012 7:25 AM
> To: Sam Ottenhoff
> Cc: Sakai 2 Technical Coordination Committee
> Subject: Re: [sakai2-tcc] Towards a fulltime coordinator
>
> Still looking for opinions and volunteers for this.
>
> Thanks to Sam for putting together the list of 2.9 stuff. I think we probably need to put that stuff on a wiki page somewhere. Anyone have suggestions on a good spot?
>
> I would add in:
> (h) Improved configuration files to include more options and better defaults
>
> Maybe it's also worth mentioning the number of critical+ bugs fixed?
>
> -AZ
>
>
> On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 3:17 PM, Sam Ottenhoff <ottenhoff at longsight.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 12:21 PM, Aaron Zeckoski
>> <azeckoski at unicon.net>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> I think we need the following things to happen to get to a fulltime
>>> coordinator position and I need to ask for volunteers to work on
>>> these.
>>>
>>> 1) A clear list of the features/benefits of 2.9 (and also of
>>> additional 2.8/2.7 releases). We should probably have something like
>>> this anyway but we especially need it in order to ask for funds from
>>> people. This is important for the "Return on Investment" the board
>>> wants.
>>
>>
>>
>> Benefits to 2.9:
>>
>> a) Security improvements
>> b) Accessibility gains especially the default use of the much-improved
>> CKEditor
>> c) Lesson Builder content sequencing making Sakai CLE a viable for
>> online training and online courses
>> d) Look-and-feel refresh including accessibility gains
>> e) Much-requested gradebook features including ability to drop highest
>> / drop lowest in a category
>> f) Runs on the latest version of Tomcat (Tomcat 5.5 is EOL on Sept 30,
>> 2012!)
>> g) Redone build process will allow for more maintenance releases (if
>> there is community demand)
>>
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> 2) Identify possible funding sources - I am not suggesting that we
>>> seek the funding but we should be able to recommend possible sources
>>> of funding for this position including possibly:
>>> (A) the OAE general fund (since the depend on CLE being stable for
>>> the forseeable future)
>>> (B) Special dues (essentially an optional gold level of dues which
>>> would be earmarked directly for CLE position(s) funding) - it was
>>> suggested that some institutions would have a hard time offering
>>> money directly but that it is easy for them to get approval for
>>> paying higher dues as long as they are targetted
>>> (C) Other?
>>
>>
>>
>> (c) The primary SCAs spend quite a bit of $$ sponsoring parts of the
>> annual conference.  Without many other options available, it would be
>> a way to re-allocate enough money to make up the gap between the 2-day
>> a week pot of money and what is costs to hire 1.0 FTE.
>>
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