[sakai2-tcc] Policy - naming of Contrib tools

[Steve Swinsburg]

If the name fits and is logical then it stays. Gradebook2 is quite a bit
different to Gradebook classique in both UI, features and technology, so if
it ever went to core it could be called Grades or something, maybe.


On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 10:56 AM, Mark J. Norton
<markjnorton at earthlink.net>wrote:

>  Still, what would you call Gradebook2 or Assignment2?  These were
> intended to be logical successors to the tools they replaced.
>
> - Mark
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> 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
>
>
> On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 7:12 AM, Mark J. Norton <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)?
>>
>>  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)?
>>
>>  Would it make sense for the TCC / PMC to have a policy that Contrib
>> tools not be named as a sequential, by default, name?
>>
>>  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)?
>>
>>  Cheers,
>> Neal
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>>  Neal Caidin
>> Sakai CLE Community Coordinator
>> neal.caidin at apereo.org
>> Skype: nealkdin
>> Twitter: ncaidin
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