Sakai 2.6 Overview

Sakai 2.6 Overview Peter A. Knoop Sakai Foundation / University of Michigan

What’s in Sakai 2.6?
Sakai 2.6 Overview
Task Level - Jira (issue tracking)
Change Log View - Subversion or SVN (source repository)
Cross-Project Enhancements
Tool and Service Enhancements
Beyond 2.6…
Sakai 2.7
Sakai 3
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Sakai 2.6 – Jira 29-Apr-2009

Sakai 2.6 – Subversion Source Code Repository
2.6.x Maintenance Branch
Branched from trunk on 06-Oct-2009
Trunk moving on for 2.7 (Enhancements & Bugs)
Bug Fixes from trunk merged to 2.6.x (and 2.4.x and 2.5.x) as appropriate
2.6.0 Release Branch
Branched from 2.6.x on 21-Apr-2009
2.6.x moving on for 2.6.1
Blocker Bug Fixes from 2.6.x merged to 2.6.0
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Sakai 2.6 Overview
Cross-Project Activities
Tools
Services
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Kernel
Kernel 1.0.0 (or “K1“) released October 2008
Centralize common, core services into a kernel project, separate from Sakai project.
Bugs addressed in Kernel Maintenance Releases; most recent is Kernel 1.0.6 for use by Sakai 2.6.0.
Enhancements to K1 occurring in Kernel trunk (Kernel 1.1) for Sakai 2.7
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User Experience (UX)
No major changes from 2.5; enables re-use of much 2.5 documentation.
Accessibility
Minor improvements in some JSF tags for keyboard accessibility.
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Internationalization & Localization
Support for localized tool names (page names not currently localized).
Localized date-time picker for velocity-based tools ( e.g. , Announcement, Assignment, Schedule, and Resources).
Localized start-of-week.
Language Translations:
With limited UX changes, many translations carryover.
Work ongoing…
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Support for using db2 and WebSphere.
Testing
Improvements to Sakai integration test support.
Performance
Implementation of a working, proof-of-concept generic Sakai performance testing environment, including data.
Establish baseline tests for tools and build a test results library for comparisons among releases.
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Session Time-Out Alert 29-Apr-2009

View site as if in a different role, a.k.a. Student View 29-Apr-2009

Assignments 29-Apr-2009

Support for custom fields, with timing and role control over when and who can view them.
Assignments – Custom Fields 29-Apr-2009

Assignments – Model Answer 29-Apr-2009

Assignments – Private Note 29-Apr-2009

Assignments – All-Purpose Item 29-Apr-2009

Blog (Provisional Tool) 29-Apr-2009

Calendar Summary / Schedule
Added indicator with number of events to each calendar day.
Event description is now rich-text.
Improved performance; tool loads faster.
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Schedule – iCal Integration 29-Apr-2009

Citations Helper
New configuration option for maximum number of databases to search simultaneously.
Support for populating direct vendor URLs from Search Library Resources and RIS import.
General user interface improvements.
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Email Archive
Performance improvements for handling a large number of messages in the archive.
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Gradebook – Add Multiple Items 29-Apr-2009

Messages
Added ability to reply-all.
Option to turn off 'send to email' option in message composition for a site.
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OSP (Portfolios)
Improvements to UX.
Ability to edit and delete feedback and evaluations.
Aggregation of Evaluations across sites via My Workspace.
Better group awareness and filtering in Wizards tool.
Ability to apply an OSP Style to more screens of a Matrix.
Ability to control allowed general and item-specific feedback (0, 1, many) in Matrices and Wizards.
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Preferences
Customize Tabs is now the default initial page; page order defined via property.
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Preferences – Customize Tabs 29-Apr-2009

Resources
Notification for items with release dates at release time.
Zip/Unzip support (2.6.1?)
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Wiki
Added WYSIWYG editor (2.6.1?)
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Tests & Quizzes ( a.k.a. Samigo)
Allow editing a published assessment.
Ability to release assessments to groups.
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User Membership (Provisional Tool)
Include the created and last modified date on the screen and in the CSV export.
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User Membership (Provisional Tool)
Filter searching and viewing of users to only those users with the same named usertype(s).
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Worksite Setup/Site Info
Support for creating sites from templates.
Added option to import and replace (with deep-delete) content from another site.
Support for optional survey questions during setup.
Improved support for adding multiple instances of a tool ( e.g. , Chat) to a site.
Enhanced group creation; ability to add a role or a provider id to a group.
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WYSIWYG Widget (FCKeditor)
FCKeditor upgrade to version 2.6.2, which brings in bug fixes and better Safari support.
Upgrade to FCKeditor 2.6.4 coming…
Optional FCKeditor plug-in to allow users to embed entities ( e.g. , Simple Page Tool – a Contrib tool).
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Deprecated Tools
Presentation
Mailtool
Mailsender (Contrib) replacing Mailtool
A major re-write of the tool.
Switched from JSF to RSF.
Improved recipient selection, email validation, and group awareness.
Need to gain experience with it.
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Tools with Bug-Fixes only for 2.6
Announcements
Chat
Help
Linktool
Login
Membership
Metaobj
MOTD (Message-of-the-Day)
MyWorkspace
News (RSS)
On-Line
Podcasts
Post'em
PreferAble
Presence
Reset Password
Roster
Search
Section Info
SUTool
Syllabus
Tab Management
Users
Web Content
Worksite Information
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Services with Bug-Fixes only for 2.6
Access
Alias
Authz
Build
Calendar
Content-Review
Courier
Database
Entity
Event
IMSTI
JCR
Memory
Portlet
Privacy
Profile
Quartz Scheduler
Realms
Reports
Rights
Site
Sites
Skins
Test Harness
Tool
Util
Velocity
WebDAV
WSRP
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Services moved to Kernel 1.0
alias
authz
cluster
component
content
db
email
entity
event
JCR
memory
site
tool
user
util
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Sakai 2.6 Service Enhancements
citations
Support for Serials Solutions 360 Search metasearch engine.
Support for returning direct vendor URLs from Search Library Resources and RIS import.
cluster [Kernel]
Improved performance by switching to JMS-based implementation.
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component [Kernel]
Support for more flexible configuration of components.
content (Content Hosting Service) [Kernel]
Added hooks for virus-scanner service.
Optional JCR implementation: testing and migration.
course-management
Allow administrative control over which Academic Sessions are current or active.
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Email [Kernel]
Refactored email service.
emailtemplateservice
Initial implementation of an email templating service.
entitybroker
Added bug report emails.
Added REST support.
JSF
Improved formatting and accessibility of ToolBar tag.
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Web Services
Added IP Address Filtering.
Added many new web services…
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Selected Contrib Projects
Assignments2
BlogWOW
Terracotta
Conditional Release
Elluminate
Feed Tool
Gradebook2
Leaderboard
Learning Log
News Feeds
OpenSyllabus
QNA
Role Play
Sakai Admin X
SENRG
Sign-up
Simple Page Tool
Skin Manager
SMS
Solo
Textbook
Timeline
Wimba
Etc.
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Builds on stability, robustness, and performance of Sakai 2.5.
Change from 2.5 to 2.6 is less than 2.4 to 2.5.
Lots of great, mostly minor enhancements.
Mostly similar UX to 2.5.
Official Release late April/early May 2009.
Support with Maintenance Branch and Maintenance Releases through early 2011.
Sakai 2.6 Summary 29-Apr-2009

Sakai Releases
Sakai 2.x Series
2.4
2.4.x support ending soon…
2.5
2.5.5 Maintenance Release coming late April/early May 2009
2.5.x support through early 2010
2.6
2.6.0 Official Release late April/early May 2009
2.6.x support through early 2011
2.7 (Last 2.x Release)
Remains Kernel 1 based, no new UX (?)
2.7.0 Official Release early 2010
Sakai 3.x Series
3.0
Moving to Kernel 2 based; new UX
Early, partial functionality releases starting late 2009/early 2010?
3.0.0 Official Release 2011/2012?
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Sakai 2.7?
Who is it for?
Existing deployers interested in maintaining a 2.x experience, with some enhancements, thru 2012.
Expected to be last release in 2.x series.
For new pilots, eventually will recommend starting with Sakai 3.x, rather than 2.x (late 2009?)
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Sakai 2.7?
Tentative Plans
Minor enhancements to tools and services already underway
Forums
Profile
Tests & Quizzes
Assignments
Portfolio (OSP)
Other?
Leveraging 3.0-targeted work on UX Improvement Project and Page Authoring?
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Sakai 3.x
The future of Sakai…
Key organizations and committers are focusing more and more on Sakai 3.x.
Early release (late 2009/early 2010?) – initially focused sub-set of capabilities to meet early adopters’ needs:
University of Cambridge
Georgia Tech University
Official 3.0 release for community (2011/2012?)
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Sakai 3.x
Tentative Roadmap
Based on Kernel 2
UX Improvement project
Page Authoring
Content Management
Support for groups outside of site context
Simple URLs
Social networking capabilities
Support for legacy Sakai experience to ease transition
Migration from 2.x to 3.x
Improved ease-of-development
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Where to Learn More about 2.6.0?
Overview
http://confluence.sakaiproject.org/confluence/x/WYC9Ag
Release Documentation (coming soon…)
http://confluence.sakaiproject.org/confluence/x/LADWAg
Beyond Sakai 2.6…
Sakai 3 General Information
http://confluence.sakaiproject.org/confluence/x/DQLWAg
Sakai Community Development Process
http://confluence.sakaiproject.org/confluence/x/gQAgAw
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