[sakai2-tcc] Improve the welcome page experience

[Matthew Jones]

I think for part #1 and #2 these users already exist, but not many people
*know* about the SampleUserDirectoryProvider that has been around (in it's
current form) for over 5 years. Most people know about admin, but this
provider (which all of the QA servers use because they start up with
"-Dsakai.demo=true")
provides:

* 1000 sample students with the username of
student0001-student1000 (all password sakai)

The first 10 or so students have "realistic" names (some of them i18n), the
rest are all generic.

* Sample instructor (instructor/sakai)
* A sample ta (ta/sakai)
* Infinite other users (any user name that starts with test and the
password Sakai).

The big advantage of this is if you use the "instructor" user you can
create a course site, add a roster and get all 1000 students enrolled in
it.

I use this all of the time, though it probably *would* be more useful
documented on the front of the QA pages.

Previously, the "welcome page" and other info was stored at
https://source.sakaiproject.org/contrib/qa/trunk/. I'm not sure if the QA
process is organized but I remember when I was running a QA, Alan/Seth did
direct me here to update content. Though it looks like the last change here
was years ago.

[1]
https://source.sakaiproject.org/svn/providers/trunk/sample/src/java/org/sakaiproject/provider/user/SampleUserDirectoryProvider.java


On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 7:45 AM, Steve Swinsburg
<steve.swinsburg at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I've just been having a discussion with a member of the Moodle community
> about how the default Sakai front page isn't really that exciting. This
> applies for both the default QA page and the normal install. I tend to
> agree and think we can do better.
>
> Some thoughts:
> * We could provide some info about how to login straight away.
> * We could also provide some more demo accounts, with users added to sites
> like the mercury site, and have them available on the front page as well.
> This would be in line with the OOTB uPortal install.
> * Maybe some more info about what you'll find inside.
> * A few images wouldn't hurt.
> * We could drop some of the pages on the left (like features and training)
> and incorporate those onto the front page.
>
> Compare:
> http://qa.moodle.net/
>
> And:
> http://qa3-us.sakaiproject.org:8086/portal
>
> I'd be prepared to do any code mods required if we can get a UI person
> involved as well, perhaps Gonzalo? We have made a good move with the
> neoportal, lets go a little further!
>
> https://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/SAK-22122
>
> cheers,
> Steve
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