Proposed Sakai 2.7 Changes

List still being compiled and revised - a work in progress. If you have corrections or additions, feel free to edit or leave a comment.

I've become frustrated with Confluence's limitations for displaying, slicing and dicing these issues. So for the moment work is ongoing in a google spreadsheet. See link below.

New Feature Documentation
Google Spreadsheet

User Impact: High

Short Description	Effects	JIRAs	Documentation	Contact	Comments
Blog: old tool no longer supported	technical	NA	Tool rewrite. Same UX, just rewritten for technical reasons. Uses entirely new DB tables. Would need a data migration.	Adrian Fish	Running in production at Lancaster. Need Db migration script, and full regression testing. Do we have Blog test cases?
Forums: UI refinements	UX	SAK-13736 - Getting issue details... STATUS	Forums UI Enhancement	Gonzalo Silverio
Forums: optional 'mark as read' after displaying all messages	UX	SAK-10869 - Getting issue details... STATUS		Stephen Marquard
Forums: pre-populate with default forum and topic	UX	SAK-11167 - Getting issue details... STATUS	needs sakai.property	David Horwitz
Forums: display last activity time and sort by recent activity in thread view	UX, technical	SAK-9806 - Getting issue details... STATUS		David Horwitz
Messages/Forums: Synoptic tool	UX	NA	Description and Screens	Bryan Holladay	New synoptic tool. Assumes that Messages is being used as well as Forums, which is not true for a significant number of schools.
Tests & Quizzes: auto-save	UX, technical	SAK-15076 - Getting issue details... STATUS			QA: testing=small QA: regression risk=small
Permissions: make permissions settable at group level		SAK-16444 - Getting issue details... STATUS		Zhen Qian

User Impact: Medium

Short Description	Effects	JIRAs	Documentation	Contact	Comments
Admin Tools: paging UI	UX	SAK-14685 - Getting issue details... STATUS - SAK-14629 - Getting issue details... STATUS - SAK-3963 - Getting issue details... STATUS - SAK-14686 - Getting issue details... STATUS	This adds the standard paging widget that's found in other tools with lists.	Savitha	Apparently running in production at Michigan (merged into Ctools branch in January 2009)
Announcements: group info in preview and notifications	UX	SAK-14677 - Getting issue details... STATUS - SAK-14678 - Getting issue details... STATUS	In the Add/Edit announcement page, select Access option, which may be one of the following: Only members of this site can see this announcement This announcement is publicly viewable Display this announcement to selected groups only. Now click "Preview". In the preview page you will see Access field along with the option that was selected.	Savitha
Forums: performance of statistics page	UX, technical	SAK-12754 - Getting issue details... STATUS	NA	Ying Wang	To verify, need to devise a before/after performance test with sites that have large numbers of topics/threads.
Forums: see how many people have read a message	UX	SAK-10559 - Getting issue details... STATUS		Stephen Marquard
Forums: searchable content	UX, technical	SAK-5568 - Getting issue details... STATUS	NA	Stephen Marquard
Forums: email author of message/thread	UX	SAK-11740 - Getting issue details... STATUS		Stephen Marquard
Forums: optional notifications	UX	SAK-11740 - Getting issue details... STATUS		Stephen Marquard
Roster: listing by group/section	UX	SAK-14744 - Getting issue details... STATUS		Greg Thomas
Schedule: display source site of merged calendar items	UX	SAK-14854 - Getting issue details... STATUS		Beth Kirschner
Site Info: notifications use Email Template service by default		SAK-12995 - Getting issue details... STATUS
Site Info: copy manual site participant list from another site	UX	SAK-13797 - Getting issue details... STATUS
Worksite Setup: support for modifying Worksite Setup survey questions	UX	SAK-14748 - Getting issue details... STATUS
Site Info: improved sorting of site participant list		SAK-14723 - Getting issue details... STATUS
Site Info: ability to set an alias for site's URL		SAK-14483 - Getting issue details... STATUS
Tests & Quizzes: integration with Respondus		SAK-7987 - Getting issue details... STATUS
Tests & Quizzes: ability to choose "Average" for scoring multiple submissions		SAK-11690 - Getting issue details... STATUS
Tests & Quizzes: ability for students to view all own submissions/scores		SAK-15073 - Getting issue details... STATUS
Tests & Quizzes: Improve Usability of Samigo Assessment Main Page		SAK-16832 - Getting issue details... STATUS
Permissions widgets: readable permissions language for end-users		SAK-2601 - Getting issue details... STATUS		Zhen Qian
TinyURL Service				Steve Swinsburg
Terracotta clustering	technical	NA	Terracotta Project	John Lewis

User Impact: Low

Short Description	Effects	JIRAs	Documentation	Contact	Comments
Assignments: upload/download options reflect submission type	UX	SAK-14869 - Getting issue details... STATUS - SAK-14461 - Getting issue details... STATUS		Zhen Qian
Assignments: update gradebook service dependency	Technical refactoring	SAK-14709 - Getting issue details... STATUS		Zhen Qian
Chat: Remove old, deprecated code	Technical cleanup	SAK-14768 - Getting issue details... STATUS	NA	Stephen Marquard
Gradebook: update helpers	technical (helpers not yet used)	SAK-14602 - Getting issue details... STATUS		Michelle Wagner
Linktool: verification code for getsession method	technical	SAK-14900 - Getting issue details... STATUS		Stephen Marquard
Portfolio: semantic markup for custom styling	UX	SAK-13798 - Getting issue details... STATUS
Profile: refactoring	technical	SAK-11303 - Getting issue details... STATUS		Steve Swinsburg
Profile: new user info fields	technical	SAK-15165 - Getting issue details... STATUS	needs DB conversion script	Steve Swinsburg
Profile: enhancements for better editing and display of information				Steve Swinsburg?
Roster: single-column layout for picture printing	UX	SAK-14743 - Getting issue details... STATUS		Greg Thomas
Schedule: cleaner event logging	technical	SAK-12651 - Getting issue details... STATUS	new event type for schedule creation	Beth Kirschner
Schedule: set view by day, week, month	UX	SAK-15106 - Getting issue details... STATUS		Beth Kirschner
Schedule: limit synoptic merging	UX	SAK-14880 - Getting issue details... STATUS	needs sakai.property	Nuno Fernandes
Schedule: remove grey shading of PDF	UX	SAK-14680 - Getting issue details... STATUS	NA	Gonzalo Silverio
Site Info: display course management EIDs in non-course site types		SAK-12677 - Getting issue details... STATUS		David Horwitz
Site Info: print out list of site participants as PDF		SAK-15627 - Getting issue details... STATUS		Zhen Qian
Tests & Quizzes: print from question bank		SAK-16765 - Getting issue details... STATUS
Tests & Quizzes: email Notification when publishing/republishing		SAK-7639 - Getting issue details... STATUS
Optional property to switch off presence in users' MyWorkspace	UX (portal)	SAK-11220 - Getting issue details... STATUS
Enable easier customization of login dialog	UX (portal)	SAK-12841 - Getting issue details... STATUS
Add a style support for PDA portal	UX (portal)	SAK-14695 - Getting issue details... STATUS ; SAK-14827 - Getting issue details... STATUS
Ability to embed a bit of HTML from a Site Property in the Background Document of a Site	UX	SAK-15097 - Getting issue details... STATUS
New UserTypeMapper implementation which always sets user types to a given String	technical	SAK-14648 - Getting issue details... STATUS
Update skins so that we can use better, more meaningful, more specific markup	UX	SAK-12071 - Getting issue details... STATUS
Kerberos provider: Use centralized authentication caching	technical	SAK-10227 - Getting issue details... STATUS	Notice of provider-only cache deprecation provided to sakai-dev list and READMEs in 2.5.x and 2.6.0 releases.	Seth Theriault	a version running in 2.5.x at Oxford
Kerberos provider: Support two-step authentication (using TGT)	technical	SAK-10025 - Getting issue details... STATUS	Requires configuration changes by deployers. Need to consult sakai-dev, production lists.	Seth Theriault	running in 2.5.x at Oxford
Kerberos provider: Halt startup if provider is improperly configured	technical	SAK-16816 - Getting issue details... STATUS	Minimal changes but need to alert deployers	Seth Theriault	running in 2.5.x at Oxford

New Tools or Significant New Capabilities (i.e. what appears below would be considered for 2.8)

Profile 2 (Rewritten Tool: http://confluence.sakaiproject.org/display/PROFILE/Profile2)

new tool, uses same storage as old profile, DB conversion for new features
uses same service as profile, service separated from tools
roster integration? roster has dependency on old profile tool (some more work)
Steve Swinsburg supporting, others from lancaster working on it as well
Lancaster running in production

Gradebook2 (Rewritten Tool)

UI level-work, GWT, existing GB services with extensions, DB conversion
New features
UCDavis and Georgia Tech have done some testing, in pilot at UCDavis
full gap analysis? Increased burden to QA if have to test both.

Assignments2 (Re-written Tool)

ground-up rewrite, RSF, site-by-site conversion of posted assignments (not submissions)
new features - basically a new tool. Also includes new gradebook helpers as part of its core UX.
In limited pilot at IU
Needs to be coordinated with gradebook service plans

SiteStats (http://confluence.sakaiproject.org/display/STAT/Home)

Nuno sole developer; some patching from others (4 committers)
Independent tool, new tool, no equivalent functionality elsewhere
Fairly widespread production experience with various versions
Performance issues with earlier releases, improvements have been made

Portal Hierarchy (http://confluence.sakaiproject.org/x/noD3) -

SAK-12350 - Getting issue details... STATUS

Oxford supporting work (Matthew Buckett)
Arrange sites in a hierarchy (like "more" dropdown)
Changes behavior of site tabs and some site navigation
technically moderate change to portal code (skinnable Charon, might add as new portal)
can be turned on or off on institutional basis

OpenSyllabus (http://confluence.sakaiproject.org/display/OSYL/OpenSyllabus+Home)

new tool, HEC supporting, not in production anywhere
functionality cuts across several Sakai tools

Sakora / Simple SIS Integration (http://confluence.sakaiproject.org/display/IMSES/Sakora+Project)

dependencies on scheduling service, messaging service (contrib)
one school working toward production
little risk if not using it
dependent on CM

Blog (Rewritten tool)

Adrian Fish can no longer support earlier Blog tool, but will support the post-2.5 branch.
The post-2.5 branch is a complete rewrite, similar functionality, but far superior UI and DB layer, and much less buggy.
It has been in production for over 12 months at Lancaster University.
It uses new db tables, so Adrian and Steve Swinsburg are working either to roll that into a method that runs when the tool starts up, or on migration scripts.
The post 2.5 blog can be installed and replace the current without risk to the current blog tables as the table names are different, but the old blog data would still need to be migrated.

Basic LTI portlet

Chuck supporting for two years
code at: https://source.sakaiproject.org/contrib/csev/trunk/basiclti/
documentation at: https://source.sakaiproject.org/contrib/csev/trunk/basiclti/docs/sakai_basiclti_portlet.doc
running in production at Michigan, supporting two discipline-specific apps

Wishful thinking (i.e. no development team has actually proposed taking these on)

Content (Page) Authoring? (http://confluence.sakaiproject.org/display/SAKDEV/Content+Authoring)

talk to Nate (simple course?)
needs to attract resource

Conditional Release (http://confluence.sakaiproject.org/display/CR/Home)

K1 issue, Zach doing work?