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Problem with current QA process. Testing is getting harder and harder with more and more coming into the release. Further, we are not effectively communicating out what changes are occurring. For example, Davis was surprised at the work in the 2. gradebook
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Core - Provisional - Contrib
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This can be done a couple ways
1) Project teams - self reporting
2) 3rd Party - pick someone that you trust
3) Have someway of empirically proving it
To begin with, we'll begin with project teams doing a self evaulation. From a security perspective - Anthony wants to ensure the XSS doesn't occur. Needs to be multi-faceted
Let's assume we have criteria and methods to get community rating. Now what? What goes into the release?
- Right now you can get something into trunk and abandon it. Quality assessment should be up to date and meet certain standards. If not there there are decision points
1) In the release or out of the release?
2) licensing - does the code in question fit into our licensing model
Talk about different types of packaging of the product.
- Sakai Core: tools very well tested
- Sakai Evaluation: tools that come from trunk or contrib and that have clean licensing.
Thought experiment
Oliver suggested we take a look at Section Info. UCB did the development on the tool and is largely focused on other work at this time. What would happen with that tool? Would it be dropped?
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As to determining what is in the release
- People around the block doesn't need release, they need the a fore mentioned rating.
- People that need to evaluate Sakai are the ones that really need the release.
Q: Who handles choosing what is in the 'Evaluation' release? Michael proposed the Foundation does by performing market analysis/ competitive analysis. The group was in agreement about the to the idea of distribution of Sakai evaluation to the Foundation that was not a criteria base decision.
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Thumbs up to scraping the Core-Provisional Contrib!
Proposal
- Establishing a WG to define a set of criteria (ie score card). This WG will work from the existing set of provisional criteria.
- 2-3 months before the release of 2.6 folks need to fill out the scores card.