Aug 8

Written by: Anthony Whyte
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's not being used it presents us with an opportunity to slim down the release, ever so slightly.

Copyright ©2008 Anthony Whyte

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