By Anthony Whyte on Fri, 08 Aug 2008 04:12:53 GMT

The presentation tool is a core tool that provides the capability to upload and display sets of images to users.  However, I sense that this tool is little used by the Community.   The University of Michigan, for example, stealthes the tool since there is little interest in it given its current capabilities.

For 2.6.0 I'd like to suggest that we remove the tool from the release.   This does not necessarily mean that we need to go through the process of physically moving the files from the main SVN repo to our contrib repo, although this could be done.  Rather, we could simply modify the Sakai .externals file to exclude it from /trunk and maintenance branch check outs as well as generate release artifacts without it.

Indeed, I might well be wrong about the size of the Presentation Tool's institutional user base.  If so, it would be premature to exclude it from the release.  But if it ... Read More »

By Anthony Whyte on Fri, 08 Aug 2008 00:46:46 GMT

Tueseday I finished generating the 2.5.2 source, binary and demo artifacts, javadocs, taglib docs and poms/jars for the Sakai Maven2 repo, cut the final 2.5.2 tag and prepped the Sakai 2.5.2 release page. Artifact testing has so far proved positive so the release should be ready for public consumption.

Sakai 2.5.2 succeeds the ill-fated 2.5.1 release that included a nasty portfolio bug discovered only after I had generated the 2.5.1 release artifacts. A disappointing find to be sure but issues of this sort are bound to happen from time to time and it helped set a precedent of quickly responding to the issue, incrementing the version number by one and cutting a new release.

Bring on 2.5.3.