[sakai2-tcc] TCC - CLECC summary - June 13, 2013

Fri Jun 14 10:01:43 PDT 2013

Anthony,
I assumed there would be bugs and issues that might come up and as a
result we would want to plan to release a 2.9.4 around the holidays
for a christmas upgrade. We can certainly choose to not do this but
that was the thinking. It's not meant to be a huge effort. Just
merging some fixes.

-AZ

On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 9:40 AM, Anthony Whyte <arwhyte at umich.edu> wrote:
> On the subject of 2.9.4, I thought our San Diego conversation had trended
> away from a Nov/Dec 2.9.4 maintenance release in favor of focusing on 2.10
> alpha/beta work and that a proposal would be crafted along those lines?  I
> question whether we have the capacity to do both and maintain a reasonable
> level of quality as regards output.
>
> Some of the ideas which have been discussed include (but not finalized) -
> Dashboard, Project Keitai, Updated LTI, Common Cartridge Export (Lessons),
> Elastic Search, TinCan API (Learning Analytics), Many potential Samigo
> improvements, new Online Help (this is currently still in requirements
> phase, no set timeline), perhaps the Signup Tool
>
>
> A number of the above listed improvements are already in trunk.  Do we
> really want to hold back on Keitei, TinCanAPi, LTI 2.0, Lessons improvements
> et al by diverting energy away from trunk in favor of a fourth 2.9
> maintenance release?  One could I suppose cherry pick certain of these
> improvements and back port them to 2.9.x but that could prove messy plus it
> would violate our current practice of restricting *.x branch enhancements to
> those of the minor variety.
>
> There is also the desire to root out the indies and simplify our
> build/release practices--the focus of this work will be on trunk not 2.9.x.
>
> I suggest that the idea of 2.9.4 be held in reserve and only exercised if
> unforeseen 2.9.x blockers bubble to the surface post-2.9.3.  Note, that the
> "stuff" of 2.10--or whatever folks want to version the next major/minor
> release--is far more compelling that what a 2.9.4 can hope to deliver.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Anth
>
>
>
>
> On Jun 13, 2013, at 11:06 PM, Neal Caidin wrote:
>
> Next meeting - Tuesday, June 25, 1 pm Eastern Daylight / 5 pm GMT
> (alternating between East coast morning for 2nd week and afternoon for 4th
> week seems to be best balance of TCC attendee availability)
>
> * CLA update (Licensing/Audit) - Neal plans to work with Anthony W. in early
> July. Some Apereo-level discussion also happening in parallel.
>
> * Post Sakai CLE 2.9.2 items? Have updated all Jira projects to have
> appropriate release versions/release dates/fix versions. 2.9.3-related
> version numbers were added a few weeks back. Some cleanup work may still be
> needed, but the main tasks are done (including SiteStats).
>
> * Background for 2.9.3 and 2.10 discussion - TCC discussions in San Diego -
> https://confluence.sakaiproject.org/display/TCC/2013+Apereo+TCC+Meeting+Notes
>
> * Discussion only. CLE 2.9.3
>       - release in July (earlier the better) to provide schools an
> opportunity to use for August/September school term.
>       - AntiSamy on by default? Sam O. initiated that discussion already.
>       - Minimal release - maybe a few Kernel issues, Security issues and
> others.
>       - Update of online help information being discussed (Perl script does
> not include new help documents or deleting help documents, only updates)
>       - other Jiras, like translations, could also potentially get into the
> release, if fixed and verified in time, but would not hold up the release?
>       - probably a proposal coming soon to TCC since we need a fast decision
> to line things up.
>
> * Discussion only. CLE 2.9.4
>      - tentatively plan for a "meatier" 2.9.4 for the October timeframe so
> that schools could implement for a January 2014 release?
>
> * Discussion only. CLE 2.10
>       - What would it take to have a beta by November? Or is it really more
> of an alpha?
>       - Need a good story/significant content to justify a 2.10 release over
> a 2.9.x update.  Some of the ideas which have been discussed include (but
> not finalized) - Dashboard, Project Keitai, Updated LTI, Common Cartridge
> Export (Lessons), Elastic Search, TinCan API (Learning Analytics), Many
> potential Samigo improvements, new Online Help (this is currently still in
> requirements phase, no set timeline), perhaps the Signup Tool
>       - mid-September through mid-November might be an ideal time to capture
> contributions from the Community (after the semester start)
>       - Should we have each potential major project assigned to a TCC member
> to monitor? Chase down some work from schools likely to contribute (Indiana,
> UMich, Stanford, Yale, Virginia, Cape Town, etc) ?
>
> * Documentation cleanup from Confluence to a more controlled approach - Neal
> will get information on Apereo web redesign efforts to coordinate with
> effort being led by Seth (see details at
> https://confluence.sakaiproject.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=83036135
> and sample structure at http://etherpad.ctools.org/sakai-docs) .  Need to
> get a better handle on time frames for these efforts and ownership of
> content/site etc.
>
> * Still need date for completing Tools survey summary for community
> (received more data recently). Starting to think about a community outreach
> survey. Neal will discuss with TCC Chair/Vice Chair
>
> * Open Apereo 2013 - some feedback that technical infrastructure was not
> reliable (e.g. internet speed). Conference committee aware of this and
> addressing. A survey will be sent out soon.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Neal Caidin
>
> Sakai CLE Community Coordinator
> nealcaidin at sakaifoundation.org
> Skype: nealkdin
> AIM: ncaidin at aol.com
>
>
>
>
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