[sakai2-tcc] Draft announcement for Release Candidate 01

[Matthew Jones]

I think it looks good. I don't think skinning changes need to be
re-mentioned. I would link to the 2.9 release notes page and maybe see if
anyone wants to help fill in details there.
https://confluence.sakaiproject.org/display/DOC/Sakai+CLE+2.9+release+notes

Specifically I'd be interested in:
Any updates around database support
  - I'm pretty sure it works under Mysql 5.5
  - I know for sure trunk does because I'm running trunk locally (forced to
by Ubuntu 12.04) without problem. I believe I had to use
*   hibernate.dialect=org.hibernate.dialect.MySQL5InnoDBDialect*
   rather than the docs that mention the older
   *hibernate.dialect=org.hibernate.dialect.MySQLInnoDBDialect*
*
*
Would for sure be good to verify those. Instructions. Also clean up
anything with Tomcat 7 since that's going to be a lot of questions I think:
Why won't Sakai startup with tomcat 7 (you need to edit catalina.properties
read the guide). Maybe some shell script or something would be useful?

We also (as the release team) need to go through all properties
and permissions added in 2.9 and add them to this page. Searching for that
checkbox finds a lot of them, and there's no way to do a filter by fix
version unless you put in each one individually. (
https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JRA-24152)

On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 4:28 PM, Neal Caidin <nealcaidin at sakaifoundation.org
> wrote:

> 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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