TCC Project Coordination Meetings at 2013 Conference

Who is coming?

Name	Attending Sunday?	Attending Thursday?
Alan Berg
Noah Botimer
Matthew Buckett
John Bush
David Horwitz *Will be@ conference
Matthew Jones
Beth Kirschner
Jean-François Lévêque
Megan May
Sam Ottenhoff
Charles Severance
Steve Swinsburg
Seth Theriault
Anthony Whyte
Aaron Zeckoski
Neal "Non-TCC" Caidin
Richard Webber
Former user (Deleted) (non-tcc)
Charles Hedrick
Makoto Tsuchitani
Bob Long
Lydia Li

Brief Summaries of Meetings   

 Agendas & Detailed notes are available on the 2013 Apereo TCC Meeting Notes page

  Who we are & how we work

• PMC Proposal
  
  • No disagreement about this. 
  • Anthony Whyte will float final proposal to list for discussion and vote
• Project organization & Release simplification 
  
  • Anthony, Matt, & Aaron will work on proposal and send to lists
• Documentation
  
  • Group is working on pulling together definitive documentation for things like What is Sakai, How to get it/build it, How to get involved, ect. 
  • These will be static pages and likely included in sakaiproject.org
• ACL clean up for SVN
  
  • Beth will check it in changes. Please see email
• Email Distribution lists
  
  • An attempt to consolidate Sakai email lists will be undertaken in collaboration with groups using those lists
• SVN vs GIThub
  
  • Will not pursue moving the repo to GIT at this time.  This will be something that is revisited once simplification in svn occurs
• Future Release Cycles 
  
  • Maintenance releases - only plan for 3 maint. releases and if we need to do a 4th.
    
    • 2.9.3 light
  • Next Major Release (ie 2.10) 
    
    • changes is there confidence around including right now
      

      • dashboard

      • keiti

      • LTI 2.0

      • analytics (Tincan API)

      • calculated questions in samigo

      • elastic search
      • Lessons CC export.   inline questions and rubrics (tentative)
      • Spring and Hibernate to versions 3.2.3 and 3.6.1
    
    
    • Freeze  Oct 1 & make beta by Nov. Aim to release in March
  • Float formal voting changes to the list (Anthony)

 What we are going to do

Project Based

• iRubric Integration
  
  • Work to reate an abstraction layer (e.g. ScoringService) that iRubric could implement, allowing a more maintainable solution to be checked into core Sakai.  UMich (A1), ANI (GB2) & IU (GB & A2) will work on this.

• Promotions/Deprecations

  • Promotions - Tools to look at but no commitment to a particular release
    
    • Help (Edia)
    • Roster2
    • Signup
  • Deprecations (Sleath with removal from release externals)
    
    • profile - where are the dependencies?  
    • Hybrid - arwhyte: checked with Nico, it can go
    • Link tool - start by sleath
  • Decision to not make changes
    
    • OSP
    • rwiki 
• Usability Issues
  
  • Would like to looks at usability issues in Sakai - likely cut across tools
  • Chuck H will put together a survey and come up with the top list of issues. Will tackle first couple low hanging fruit items.
    
• IMS Learning Tools Interoperability 2.0 
  
  • Chuck working on this. 
  • Target for next major release (2.10)
• Need Feedback, Additional Analysis, or Volunteer Needed
  
  • Replace Commons Logging+Log4j with SLF4J+Logback:  Look at Seths proposal and give him feedback
  • JMS Service - further analysis needed
  • sakai properties (undocumented ones, files, defaults, samples):
    
    • Aaron Z has done a lot of work over the past 2 years and now needs help with documentation.   Technical skills not requires - just ability to dig through email
  • Mooc profile for 2.10
    
    • Alan Berg writing up proposal
      
• Deferred Items
  
  • Back porting new trunk LessonBuilder features to 2.9.x for 2.9.3
  • Proposal: JSR-168 Portlet as Sample Code / Preferred Tool Pattern for New Tools 
  • Review of Important Unfunded Mandates & Other lists