[sakai2-tcc] Proposal: eliminate all indies, re-version trunk to CLE 4.0

[Steve Swinsburg]

I support these things. Simple things we can do now to help later. Except the spelling of the message centre artifact ;)

Cheers
S

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On 09/08/2013, at 6:21, Seth Theriault <slt at columbia.edu> wrote:

> On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 5:04 PM, Anthony Whyte <arwhyte at umich.edu> wrote:
> 
>> The proposal represents a first step in the simplification/rationalization
>> process.  I can make time to do the work starting this week, if it meets
>> with your approval.  If Steve and Matt have any time to help all the better.
> 
> There is much to like about this proposal (and indeed I like most of
> it), but I think it can be improved by focusing more squarely on the
> sorely needed simplification and avoiding 2 debates:
> 
> == 2.10 vs. 4.0  ==
> 
> Much ink has been spilled in this thread on what to to number the
> current trunk when it's released. Quite frankly, many of the reasons
> in favor of a jump to 4.0 seem to be somewhat-to-very technical in
> nature and are not the result of community-driven functionality
> changes.
> 
> To move the simplification along, I propose instead that we change the
> Maven coordinates of Message Center in trunk by changing the groupId
> from "org.sakaiproject.msgcntr" to "org.sakaiproject.messagecenter"
> and setting the version to 2.10-SNAPSHOT like the others; the current
> artifactIds would be maintained. This is not an original proposal, but
> I think doing it gets us on the fast track to actually having a new
> simplified release.
> 
> == "move to Git"  ==
> 
> To move to a new VCS, we need simplification. Doing prep work for the
> simplification in Github is immaterial to the actual changes that will
> need to be made in Subversion via patches that will be documented and
> tested. Once the simplification is accomplished, we will be in a
> position to more easily (and quickly) changes to a different VCS.
> 
> For those who care, I am in favor of moving to a better VCS, but not
> before we have simplification.
> 
> Seth
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