[sakai2-tcc] Policy - naming of Contrib tools

[Mark J. Norton]

Still, what would you call Gradebook2 or Assignment2?  These were 
intended to be logical successors to the tools they replaced.

- Mark

On 9/12/2013 8:50 PM, Steve Swinsburg wrote:
> Rather than a policy in contrib, have a policy for core. So if a 
> contrib tool is promoted to core and it has a name like Tool2 or 
> ToolWow, and the name isn't great, it's name changes at that point. 
> This could also be part of the incubation process - checking the name 
> of the project for legal or other issues. This happened for TinyUrl 
> which is now ShortenedUrlService.
>
> cheers,
> Steve
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> On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 7:12 AM, Mark J. Norton 
> <markjnorton at earthlink.net <mailto:markjnorton at earthlink.net>> wrote:
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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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>     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
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>     On 9/12/2013 2:45 PM, Neal Caidin wrote:
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>>     Also coming out of the discussion of
>>     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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>>     Neal Caidin
>>     Sakai CLE Community Coordinator
>>     neal.caidin at apereo.org <mailto:neal.caidin at apereo.org>
>>     Skype: nealkdin
>>     Twitter: ncaidin
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