New property to set default site publish behavior

In a new feature was added to allow users to select to publish course sites automatically, on a specified date, or manually. I believe we need a new property in the sakai.properties file to allow institutions to set the default publish behavior for their institution.

The preferred behavior depends on the institution’s normal workflow for publishing sites. Some institutions automate everything, and others leave it up to individual faculty to publish. Therefore, some institutions may prefer to default to auto, whereas others will want the default to be manual.

The suggested new property would be:

“site.setup.publish.default = auto | scheduled | manual”

with an OOTB default setting of:
”site.setup.publish.default=manual”

The “manual” setting is less likely to be disruptive to existing expectations, since it is more similar to the prior behavior. We don’t want to surprise people when all of their current sites auto-publish if they have not made a selection.