[sakai2-tcc] Draft announcement for Release Candidate 01

[Neal Caidin]

Hey all,

It looks like 2.9.0-rc01 will be built by tomorrow, Wednesday. I was originally taking the day off, but we'll see. 

Here is a draft announcement for the release. I am asking Chuck Hedrick if it is okay to mention Rutgers experience. I think it would be a boost to the community's confidence.

DRAFT - DRAFT - DRAFT 

Please do not distribute

I am happy to announce the first release candidate for the 2.9 release, 2.9.0-rc01 . The typical schedule, from the first release candidate to final release, is usually 2 or 3 more iterations of testing and bug fixing. Rutgers has been running with a 2.9.0 based on the Beta 02 version under load for several weeks, with success. A stretch goal for a 2.9.0 GA (general availability) is mid-October, a feasible date is late October/early November, and it is highly likely we will have a release before Thanksgiving. New bugs found and community participation in fixing bugs and testing fixes are the biggest factors for the release schedule. 
The Sakai 2.9.0-rc01 release is up at: https://qa29.longsight.com/

Artifacts for other qa servers are here:
http://source.sakaiproject.org/release/2.9.0-rc01/artifacts/
You can also build from source as usual from this tag:
https://source.sakaiproject.org/svn/sakai/tags/sakai-2.9.0-rc01/
This release includes about XXYYYXXX fixes that were merged from trunk as
verified.
https://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/SAK/fixforversion/12988

All indies were also released as rc01.  The list above does not include
those fixes.

We originally targeted to release 2.9.0-rc01 with no blockers, but a blocker came up during the 2.9.0-rc01 build, which will be addressed with the next release candidate. Default permissions are missing when you first add the Lessons tool to a site - https://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/LSNBLDR-114 .

The next release is Sakai CLE 2.9.0-rc02, targeted for October 10. 

[Should we mention skinning changes since this was such a big thing between b06 and b07?]






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