SAMigo 2.7 plans

Tests and Quizzes (aka SAMigo) will be among the first Sakai tools to have an independent release. Although this next release, SAMigo 2.7 will share a version number with Sakai 2.7, it will come out before Sakai 2.7 and therefore be tested with the Sakai 2.6 release. In this way, SAMigo development will not delay other necessary changes in Sakai, and vice versa. Over time, the versioning of SAMigo and Sakai will continue to diverge.

Anticipated Improvements for SAMigo 2.7

Because this independent release process is new, SAMigo 2.7 will be a "light" release and contain relatively few enhancements and bug fixes. The improvements to be included fall into the three following categories:

• Code previously completed by Stanford: Bug fixes or improvements that Stanford completed locally which may benefit others. Here are the resolved or closed JIRA items for 2.7 that are pending QA; items that correspond with a request from the community are listed in the link below.
• Improvements requested by the community: These are improvements suggested by the community, either in the form of a JIRA request, or contributed code. We've listed improvements that Stanford or other contributors are planning to or currently working on in this spreadsheet (click Tests & Quizzes tab); the spreadsheet indicates our latest assessment of which improvement make it for SAMigo 2.7.
  • Code requested of Stanford by the community: When requests from the community coincide with emerging local requests, Stanford will take on the work locally.
  • Code contributed by other schools: Starting with SAMigo 2.7, contributions will be undergoing a user experience review as part of the SAMigo release process to insure that contributed code does not negatively affect user experience or come in conflict with other recent contributions. The targeted release for contribution is an estimate and may need to be moved into the future if the reviewer recommends changes that cannot be implemented in time.

Schedule for SAMigo 2.7

SAMigo 2.8

At present we anticipate releasing SAMigo 2.8 in April 2010. Anticipated improvements include Respondus integration (SAK-7987) as well as contributed improvements that don't make SAMigo 2.7. Further details will be forthcoming.