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Sakai 2.6

General Information

Branch Manager(s): Former user (Deleted), Former user (Deleted)

Questions on the release? Email sakai-dev@collab.sakaiproject.org.

QA Reporting Lexicon (new)

I would like to suggest adopting a standard lexicon of QA terms to be used in jiras and when report results. The following are suggested terminology and definitions:

  • QA SUMMARY - summary of testing plan, OS tested, instance tested on, browser, etc.
  • QA RESULTS - detailed results on the testing
  • QA UFO - Unexpected Functional Oddity: strange anomalies that are not bugs, but perhaps should be addressed or investigated
  • QA VERIFIED - Issues is verified and passes QA, comments
  • QA UNVERIFIED --could not verify because it is not testable or failed QA, comments

Release Schedule

Updated: 23-Apr-2009

The release team reserves the right to adjust deadlines, in order to produce a quality release, and to accommodate holidays, weekends, etc.

 

Event

Weeks
Prior
to
Release

Target
2.6.0
Dates

Description

Responsibility

(tick)

Call for Tool Promotions

23

11-Aug-2008

Put call out call for nominations of tools to be promoted/demoted in the release.

Project Coordinator
Community

(tick) Frozen later than anticipated to accommodate enhancements.

Kernel API Freeze

22

15-Aug-2008

Freeze Kernel API's.

Kernel Team

(tick) Some exceptions granted.

Feature Freeze

21

Preliminary tool and service change specifications should be shared for work intended for the next release. A complete specification for the project should be made available in the project's Confluence space, and a summary should be incorporated into the Sakai Roadmap.

Project Teams
Project Coordinator

(error) Low response rate. There will be no published catalog of tool or service specifications for 2.6.

Specification Freeze

20

07-Sep-2008

Project specifications are frozen. Summaries and full specifications of what is changing should be re-published in their updated form, including for projects seeking tool status changes.

Project Teams

(error) Tool Status being replaced with Scorecard Approach.

Tool Promotion Deadline

20

07-Sep-2008

End of nominations for tool status changes. Discussion of tool promotion can begin prior to this, but all should be underway by this time.

Community
Project Teams

(tick) Frozen late, 06-Oct-2008.

Kernel Freeze

19

07-Sep-2008

Freeze K1 kernel in preparation for Sakai 2.6

Kernel committers

(tick) No major upgrades for 2.6.

Upgrade Freeze

18

15-Sep-2008

Upgrades and additions to shared/common jar files and tools (e.g., java, maven, dbcp, spring, hibernate, tomcat) are completed.

Project Teams

(error) Tool Status being replaced with Scorecard Approach.

Tool Status Freeze

18

15-Sep-2008

Decisions are finalized on promoting and retiring tools. Project teams begin work related to status changes.

Community
Project Teams

(tick) Some exceptions granted up to a week.

Code Freeze

16

All changes to code completed, including sakai.properties settings, appropriate default permissions, work related to tool status changes, database upgrade/conversion scripts, help documentation, etc. Begin determining what features are incomplete and removing them from the release in time for the Test Freeze.

Project Teams

(tick) Pushed as we don't have clear specifications on what is in/out of the release yet.

Test Freeze

15

06-Oct-2008

Complete the removal of unfinished features. Final specifications are published in full and summary forms. Formal QA begins; informal QA, such as verifying Jira's, is likely to have been going on for awhile prior to this. Generally only bug fixes are allowed past this point.

Project Teams
QA WG

(tick)

Branch Freeze

10

06-Oct-2008

2.6 branch for release is cut from trunk. Changes after this point will require merging from trunk to the release branch by Branch Managers.

Branch Manager

(tick) Delayed to 22-Oct-2008 while kernel release candidate was completed.

Alpha tags

15

06-Oct-2008

Begin tagging alpha (QA) releases.

Branch Manager

 

Beta tags

10

 

Begin tagging beta releases.

Branch Manager

(tick)

Beta01

8

02-Feb-2009

Released

Branch Manager


(tick)
 Resolve Kernel issues and merge additional fixes

Beta02

7

20-Feb-2009

Released

Branch Manager

(tick)
 Resolve Kernel issues and merge additional fixes

Beta03

5

01-Mar-2009

Released

 

(tick)
 Delayed until beta (or rc) tagging begins.

String Freeze

3

16-Jan-2009

No more changes in UI text, so the Internationalization WG can create translations and the Help WG can update documentation. Implementors can also begin updating their local documentation. (If you're tool will be ready prior to String Freeze, please let the community know, so that work can get started early on translations and help documentation. See Sakai 2.6 Translations.)

Project Teams
Internationalization WG
Help WG

(warning)
 Delayed due to security and blockers being resolved.

Release Candidates

3

21-Apr-2009

Begin tagging release candidates.

Branch Manager

(tick)

RC01

2

22-Apr-2009

Release candidate tag is cut, distributed to QA server admins for installation, and made available for early adopters.

Branch Manager

(tick)

QA RC Testing

2

22-Apr-2009

Regression and adhock testing of RC releases

QA WG

(tick)

RC02

1

01-May-2009

Release candidate tag is cut, distributed to QA server admins for installation, and made available for early adopters.

Branch Manager

 

Release Documentation

1

05-May-2009

Create, vett and publish documentation for the 2.6.0 release.

Release Management WG

(tick)

RC03

1

07-May-2009

Release candidate tag is cut, distributed to QA server admins for installation, and made available for early adopters.

Branch Manager

(tick)

RC04

1

22-May-2009

Release candidate tag is cut, distributed to QA server admins for installation, and made available for early adopters.

Branch Manager

(tick)

RC05

1

15-June-2009

Release candidate tag is cut, distributed to QA server admins for installation, and made available for early adopters.

Branch Manager

(tick)

RC06

1

30-June-2009

Release candidate tag is cut, distributed to QA server admins for installation, and made available for early adopters.

Branch Manager

 

Official
Release

0

Software is officially released.

Everyone

What's in Sakai 2.6?

Overview

/wiki/spaces/ARCHIVE/pages/19410354290

Possible Release Bundles

There has been discussion about offering more than one type of release for Sakai in the 2.6 timeframe. Such types might include:

  • Essentials - a suite of production-ready tools and services that deliver the essential set of functionality necessary to use Sakai as a CLE. (Similar in content to past releases.)
  • Developer - a stripped-down suite of tools and services that provide a developer with a minimal environment suitable for most Sakai development contexts. (Similar in content to the Programmer's Cafe build or mini.)
  • Demo or Futures - a wide-ranging collection of tools and services, including those of the essentials release, plus Contrib projects that may not be production-ready yet, but which offer important additional functionality; also includes sample data to help demonstrate its feature set. (Goes beyond our demo releases of the past by including Contrib projects.)

Jira Filters

Other 2.6-Related Planning Information:

sakai.properties Changes

Please Document sakai.properties Changes!

If you are adding or modifying a sakai.properties setting for 2.6, please make sure it is also documented in the sakai.properties file in reference.

Jira

Summary

sakai.properties Setting and Default Values

In references
sakai.properties?

Notes

SAK-6545 - Getting issue details... STATUS

Enable control over which and in what order pages appear for Preferences.

preference.pages = prefs_tab_title, prefs_noti_title, prefs_timezone_title, prefs_lang_title, prefs_privacy_title
If not set, then default pages and order is Customize Tabs, Notifications, Timezone and Language; Privacy is not displayed.

(tick)

enable.privacy.status setting is no longer honored.

SAK-10612 - Getting issue details... STATUS

Allow any (matrix/wizard) reviewer to view members independent of group membership

osp.reviewer.groups.allowall.global=false

(tick)

 

(question)

SAK-13431 - Getting issue details... STATUS

Create a property to turn the edit title function on the Site Tool Order page on or off

org.sakaiproject.site.tool.helper.order.rsf.PageListProducer.allowTitleEdit=false

(tick)

 

SAK-14039 - Getting issue details... STATUS

Specifies which servlet container / application server Sakai is deployed on. To deploy Sakai on WebSphere, this option must be set to "websphere".

servlet.container
By default this is commented out, for non-WebSphere deployment (including Tomcat).

(tick)

Can be used for other app servers in the future.

SAK-14206 - Getting issue details... STATUS

Enable/disable caching for rendering of portfolios.

cache.osp.presentation.data=true

(tick)

 

SAK-14382 - Getting issue details... STATUS

Include sender's campus e-mail address on "From" line.

msgcntr.notification.user.real.from and msgcntr.notification.from.address
By default these are set to the value of defaultEmail.

(error)

 

SAK-7924 - Getting issue details... STATUS

Specifies which roles can be switched to

studentview.roles

(error)

Admins must be careful when configuring this option as the possibility of elevate permissions exists

Database Conversions

Those updgrading from a previous installtion of Sakai will likely need to run the db conversion scripts listed below.

(It may get tricky if there are also 2.5.x changes to the same schema, such that it becomes important which version of 2.5 you are upgrading from; might need to offer multiple options and script IDs for those.)

See also the Sakai 2.5.x Maintenance Branch db conversions.

Script ID
(sakai_2_5_x-2_6_0_<db>conversion<ID>_<JIRA>.sql)

Notes

SVN Revision

Roll-up file for Sakai release

?

SAK-13584 - Getting issue details... STATUS : Further Improve the Performance of the Email Archive and Message API

 

 

Kernel

The Sakai 2.6.0 release is based on Kernel 1.0, which is currently at version 1.0.0. If bugs are uncovered in the kernel whose fixes are deemed appropriate for 2.6, then they will be merged to the Kernel 1.0.x maintenance branch, and a Kernel 1.0.1 maintenance release will subsequently be tagged for use by Sakai 2.6.0.

Candidate Jiras for Kernel 1.0.x merging and a Kernel 1.0.1 maintenance release:

  • KNL-68 - Getting issue details... STATUS (formerly SAK-14502 - Getting issue details... STATUS ): NotificationCache.put doesn't check for null
  • KNL-70 - Getting issue details... STATUS : sakai.properties file needs to be moved out of /kernel and back into a main sakai directory.

Tool Promotions/Retirements

Typically for each release nominations are sought for the promotion or retirement of tools in that release. In the past this centered on the tool's status (Core, Provisional, or Contrib), however, that simple approach wasn't serving all the needs of the community, so a working group was formed at the Paris Conference to improve this system. The goal of this Scorecard Working Group is to provide a comprehensive "scorecard" for tool and service evaluation. While this group is actively working on the new scorecard, however, we still need to start discussing what tools and services (and level of availability) are appropriate for Sakai 2.6, and the table below is intended to capture the tools and services for which folks are interested in seeing changes. (Note that the possibility of offering multiple types of releases is also under consideration for Sakai 2.6; see above.)

If you have a tool or service you would like to see added to the list, please contact the Sakai Project Coordinator (Former user (Deleted)). Discussion on the tool and services role in the release will be carried out on the management@collab.sakaiproject.org list.

Tool

Proposed Action

Related Jira Issues

Decision

Email Template Service

Add the Email Template Service to the release as a stand alone service (not part of kernel). Will enable some tools, such as Worksite Setup/Site Info and Reset Password to implement desired functionality for 2.6 (

SAK-1295 - Getting issue details... STATUS

, (

SAK-11324 - Getting issue details... STATUS

). (Vote called for 27-Aug-2008 on sakai-dev list.)

SAK-13900 - Getting issue details... STATUS

(tick)
Included.

Hierarchy Service

Add the Hierarchy Service to the release, though disabled by default, so that tools can begin using it going forward.

 

(error)
Not ready.

MessageCenter

Has been deprecated for both the 2.4 and 2.5 release, since its functionality was split into two independent tools: Messages and Forums tools. For 2.6 it is proposed to remove it from the release simply by removing its tool.id, etc.

SAK-13670 - Getting issue details... STATUS

(tick)
Combined MessageCenter tool will be removed from configuration files. (Functionality is of course still there, split into the Messages and Forums tools.)

Presentation

Leave the code in trunk, but do not include it with the 2.6 release.

 

(warning)
Still to be determined, 23-Oct-2008. (In? Out? Stealthed?)

Mailtool

Leave the code in trunk, but do not include it with the 2.6 release. (A newer, re-written version of the tool is available in contrib.)

 

(warning)
Still to be determined, 23-Oct-2008. (In? Out? Stealthed?)

Conditional Release

Include at least the service from contrib, and perhaps the GB-Resources integration as time allows.

 

(error)
Not included.

CalDAV support

Include service to allow for site events to be published to CalDAV store, off by default.

SAK-13277 - Getting issue details... STATUS

(error)
Not included.

Contrib Project Compatibility

This area is for compiling a list of which (and when) Contrib Projects will have a version that is compatible and easy to deploy for Sakai 2.6.

Project

Tentative Availability

Notes

Profile2

Version 1.1 onwards are ready for 2.6

View the main Profile2 space on Confluence and also the 2.6 Installation guide

QA

Please visit the QA Working Group space.

Adopter Timlelines

Tentative adoption timelines for Sakai 2.6.

Adopter

Tentative Timeline

University of Cape Town

2.5 to 2.6 December 2008

Rutgers

to 2.6 May 2009

Yale

to 2.6 May 2009

Virginia Tech

2.5 to 2.6 May 2009

Stockholm University

2.5 to 2.6 June 2009

UPV

2.4 to 2.6 June/July 2009

Rice

2.5 to 2.6 July/August 2009

UPMC

2.5.x to 2.6.? June/July 2009

University of Delaware

2.5 to 2.6 June or Aug 2009

UC Berkeley

2.5.x to 2.6.x June 2009

Valencian International University (VIU)

2.6.x July 2009

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