Discussion Tool Deprecation (2.x)

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Last updated: Jun 07, 2010Version comment
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Commencing with Sakai 2.5, Sakai packaged distributions, tags or maintenance branches no longer include the Discussion tool. It has been retired and removed from the release, since there was no longer an active project team supporting the tool nor actively used by production institutions. feedback The Forums tool provides a viable alternative.

If you are upgrading and previously used the Discussion tool, you have two options:

  1. Continue using Discussion. A 2.5-compatible version of the Discussion tool is available in Contrib. You can build it and add it to your Sakai instance. No one has committed to supporting this version of the tool though, and you should not rely on it remaining available for future Sakai releases.
  2. Migrate Discussion content to Forums. A utility for converting Discussion tool content to Forums tool content is available in Contrib. See the README.TXT file for more information.