[sakai2-tcc] Policy - naming of Contrib tools

Mark J. Norton markjnorton at earthlink.net
Thu Sep 12 14:12:08 PDT 2013


 >  Would the TCC/PMC like to request for the existing tools to be 
renamed so that it does not cause so much confusion in the community 
(many assume that these are the next generation tools to which they 
should look to upgrade)?

The Sakai community is already familiar with Gradebook2 and 
Assignment2.  Changing those names at this point is likely to cause more 
problems than solve.  Yeah, it makes sense to avoid this in the future, 
but these should be grandfathered in.

- Mark

On 9/12/2013 2:45 PM, Neal Caidin wrote:
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> https://confluence.sakaiproject.org/display/TCC/TCC+CLE+Action+Items
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>  Frustration expressed around naming of Contrib tools in the community 
> that look like a sequel to an existing tool before that has been 
> decided. Assignments2 and Gradebook2 are the examples (are there other 
> tools with this kind of naming)?
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> Would it make sense for the TCC / PMC to have a policy that Contrib 
> tools not be named as a sequential, by default, name?
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> Would the TCC/PMC like to request for the existing tools to be renamed 
> so that it does not cause so much confusion in the community (many 
> assume that these are the next generation tools to which they should 
> look to upgrade)?
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> Cheers,
> Neal
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> Sakai CLE Community Coordinator
> neal.caidin at apereo.org <mailto:neal.caidin at apereo.org>
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