A Jira component to help track proposals for new tools in Sakai.

09-Sep-2007 Contrib Projects initiated since the 2.4 release:

• BlogWow
• Conditional Release
• MailArchiveWow
• Q&A (Questions and Answers)
• Role Play
• Sakai Maps
• Sign-Up
• Skin Manager
• Sparkline
• Wicket
• XSD Weaver

Creation and management of internal Sakai accounts.

Provides a single alternate namespace that can be used by other Sakai applications.

23-May-2007 Awaiting update from Project Lead(s).

Used to inform site participants of current items of interest.

23-May-2007 Awaiting update from Project Lead(s).

Instructors use to create, distribute, collect and grade assignments.

26-June-2007

• 2.5 will include features originally intened for 2.4 plus many bug fixes.
  Post 2.4 Tag – Late in the 2.4 QA cycle, Assignment enhancements for 2.4 were withdrawn due to problems with the Assignment - Gradebook integration. Sakai 2.4 shipped with Assignment functionality unchanged from 2.3. Many enhancements intended for 2.4 were working however, and a tag has been prepared with those features that have been tested and working. These features will also be in the 2.5 release. More Info...
  • Allow grading for students that have not posted any submissions.
  • Non-electronic submission type.
  • Notifications for new submissions.
  • Upload all.
  • Reordering of assignments (like Resources).

Numerous bug fixes will be included in 2.5. These include several performance problems, blocking double clicking when grading (which caused duplicate submissions and incorrect in/new counts), and bugs introduced with the new non-electronic assignment type. You can check which bugs will be fixed by searching for all Assignment Jiras, and then sorting on the Target version column in the list.

Provides a synoptic, calendar-month view of schedule events.

01-Jun-2007 Mature project in maintenance mode.

Supports multi-person, persistent chat sessions.

19-Sept-2007 SAK-10422: Ability to delete all chat history for a given room

The Citations Helper is a feature of the Resources Tool that allows users to search licensed library databases as well as create and manage both citations and persistent links to articles and other online items. This helper leverages existing library technology infrastructure including metasearch tools and OpenURL to deliver this functionality, while also providing integration between Sakai and Google Scholar as an alternative approach for resource discovery.

23-August-2007

• Ability to import citations in RIS format from other tools such as RefWorks and Endnote
• Ability to sort citation lists by author, title, or date
• Ability to search for and embed citations from within the Rich Text Editor (similar to Twin Peaks)
• More info
• Timeline

Provides an email address for a site and an archive of emails sent to the site.

23-May-2007 Awaiting update from Project Lead(s).

Forums is a communication tool that instructors or site leaders can use to create an unlimited number of discussion forums for their course or project sites. The Forums tool is designed to be an effective tool for both academic and collaborative work, and is integrated closely with other tools (e.g., Resources and Gradebook).

11-Sept-2007

• SAK-10841: Ability to delete forum messages

A Sakai instance's top-level or home page.

23-May-2007 Awaiting update from Project Lead(s).

Allows instructors to list assignments and scores, and calculate, store, and distribute grade information to students.

23-May-2007 Awaiting update from Project Lead(s).

Sakai's integrated help documentation and tool.

17-Sep-2007 Support for help content in multiple languages (SAK-4256). Added sakai.properties setting to hide help collections (SAK-11527). Added tool registration property to register additional help collections (SAK-10996). Updates to help content from IU Knowledge Base for 2.5 functionality (as provided by project leads and IU KB team).

Login tool and support for login operations.

23-May-2007 Awaiting update from Project Lead(s).

Framework technology that supports in-memory caching, memory monitoring and reporting.

23-May-2007 Awaiting update from Project Lead(s).

23-May-2007 Deprecated in favour of two separate components: Messages and Forums.

The Messages tool is a communication tool that allows site participants to communicate using internal course mail. Private messaging between groups is also supported.

11-Sept-2007

• SAK-10467 & SAK-10468 Ability to bulk Move and Delete Message
• SAK-10505 Ability to forward Messages

Displays an RSS feed.

14-Sept-2007 Bug fixes only.

Displays list of on-line users.

23-May-2007 Awaiting update from Project Lead(s).

The portal application for Sakai, currently Charon (and Mercury for developers).

23-May-2007 Awaiting update from Project Lead(s).

Provides functionality for uploading .csv formatted files to display feedback (e.g., comments, grades) to site participants.

19-Sept-2007 Project in maintenance mode

Framework technology that tracks and displays a user's presence in sites and tools.

23-May-2007 Awaiting update from Project Lead(s).

Multi-user coordinated on-line slide show presentations.

23-May-2007 Awaiting update from Project Lead(s).

Displays and collects user profile information.

7-July-2007 No changes planned

Post materials of various types on-line.

20-Sept-2007

New functionality

• Dropbox email notification option: students can now choose to email instructors when they upload to a dropbox, and vice versa (see SAK-10925) (note that this is a first pass through dropbox email notification options - we hope this will develop in the future)
• Dropbox hot folders: instructors can now see a visual indication of which folders have been recently updated (choice between updated in last 1 day, 2 days, 3 days, 1 week)

Minor UI improvements

• Removal of inappropriate options from Dropbox interface (e.g. 'availability and access' settings that appear in Resources tool should not appear in Dropbox and have now been removed)
• An improved, accessible dropdown widget for Add and Action menus (see SAK-10924) (note that although this is now accessible, no particular change is visible in the UI)
• Resources is now somewhat faster (see below)

Technical improvements

• Preliminary support (as part of a longer-term transition through 2.6) for the integration of JSR-170 repos, riding beneath CHS
• Rewritten underlying Storage of entities to reduce memory usage and cpu load.
• Some database refactoring to eliminate bottlenecks in the underlying chs.

Roster tool.

12-Sep-2007

• New UI with a separate tabular view for profile and official institutional photos
• Integration with Course Management API to display enrollment status information
• Expanded permission scheme to retain the Roster's general use purpose while incorporating course-specific features
• Dramatically improved performance

Sakai's wiki tool.

• bug fixes only

Schedule allows instructors or worksite organizers to post items in calendar format.

12-Sep-2007 iCal subscription export service and import will be supported. These will be available by setting ical.experimental=true in sakai.properties (note that reoccurring events are not yet supported).

Manage sections or groups in a site.

18-Sept-2007

• Download or print a roster list that provides each student's section memberships. 
• Better enforcement of the maximum section size

Provides a list of publicly-viewable sites on the gateway.

23-May-2007 Awaiting update from Project Lead(s).

Create and share an outline for a course.

10-Sept-2007 No changes planned; bug fixes only

WYSIWYG editor widget for Sakai tools.

19-Sept-2007 Bug fixes only.

For displaying external web content.

23-May-2007 Awaiting update from Project Lead(s).

WebDAV support for Sakai.

23-May-2007 Awaiting update from Project Lead(s).

Manage sites.

23-May-2007 Awaiting update from Project Lead(s).

Provides direct URL access to various Sakai entities, such as resources in content hosting.

23-May-2007 Awaiting update from Project Lead(s).

For moving information in and out of Sakai.

23-May-2007 Awaiting update from Project Lead(s).

The framework authorization technology.

23-May-2007 Awaiting update from Project Lead(s).

A component for issues relating specifically to Citations Helper architecture and other non-user interactive items.

2-Jul-2007
The Sakaibrary project will continue to develop Citations for 2.5 to support the backend functionality required to deliver new user functionality for Citations Helper.

Framework cluster technology, which supports running Sakai in a multi-server cluster.

23-May-2007 Awaiting update from Project Lead(s).

Framework component technology supporting our API programming practices by providing a dynamic binding component loading, injection and discovery system.

23-May-2007 Awaiting update from Project Lead(s).

The services and architecture behind content sharing, management and presentation in Sakai.

A generic service which can be used by any tool (primarily Assignments) to refer student submissions to a plagiarism detection service, such as TurnItIn.

14-Sep-07 Minor changes in APIs and to integration with Assignments. Not visible except in sites which have an implementation (e.g. Turnitin) running.

Courier is a framework technology that allows server-push control over the end-user browser interface, which is used to update the user interface in response to changes.

23-May-2007 Awaiting update from Project Lead(s).

Framework technology that models educational institutions and their course offerings. (See also the Course Management WG.)

23-May-2007 Awaiting update from Project Lead(s).

Framework technology that supports jdbc database access.

23-May-2007 Awaiting update from Project Lead(s).

Framework technology that supports sending email out from various other Sakai applications.

23-May-2007 Awaiting update from Project Lead(s).

Framework technology that provides the Sakai Entity Model.

23-May-2007 Awaiting update from Project Lead(s).

Framework technology that supports generation and tracking of usage sessions and usage events.

23-May-2007 Awaiting update from Project Lead(s).

A Jira Component for tracking feature requests and requirements which impact Sakai in general (e.g., a suggested criteria for Provisional Tool status, a proposed programming convention.)

13-Sep-2007

Tools being promoted to Core:

• OSP
• Tests & Quizzes (a.k.a. Samigo)

Tools being promoted to Provisional:

• Reset Password

Tools being deprecated and removed from release (they are still available as Contrib Projects):

• Assignments (non-graded version only) - This version is left over from before Assignment-Gradebook integration was possible and is no longer being used by anyone.
• Discussion - There are a number of alternatives available now (e.g., Forums, JForum), which are in widespread usage and are supported by active Project Teams.

Framework technology that supports the use of Java ServerFaces in Sakai tools.

24-May-2007 Non-critical JSF tasks will continue in a more or less frozen state for the foreseeable future until a new project lead is available. Although the module is a mess, no new projects depend on it being cleaned up, I expect to mostly concentrate on other presentation technologies in my other tasks, and the JSF market itself is splintering between Sun JSF 1.2, MyFaces (still based on 1.1), Facelets, Seam, etc. Under the circumstances, it seems sanest to recommend that project teams who want to incorporate one of the JSF splinters do so without being bottlenecked by the Sakai-specific component library.

Base technology for various messaging applications (e.g., Chat, Announcements, Discussion, Email Archive).

23-May-2007 Awaiting update from Project Lead(s).

Need Description

23-May-2007 Awaiting update from Project Lead(s).

The "sakai mini" distribution, which contains the minimal subset of the Sakai source code needed to compile and run an instance of Sakai.

23-May-2007 Awaiting update from Project Lead(s).

SVN module for nightly builds.

23-May-2007 Awaiting update from Project Lead(s).

Need Description

23-May-2007 Awaiting update from Project Lead(s).

Samples and working examples of various user and group providers that can be used in Sakai.

23-May-2007 Awaiting update from Project Lead(s).

Used to schedule Java-based jobs to run in the Sakai server.

23-May-2007 Awaiting update from Project Lead(s).

23-May-2007 Awaiting update from Project Lead(s).

Maven plugin that supports various Sakai build procedures.

23-May-2007 Awaiting update from Project Lead(s).

Provides support for running true unit tests on sakai code.

12-Jul-2007 No further work planned.

Various sample Sakai tools, services and other code showing best-practice ways of writing code for Sakai.

23-May-2007 Awaiting update from Project Lead(s).

Sites are the primary means of organizing the user experience in Sakai.

23-May-2007 Awaiting update from Project Lead(s).

CSS for Sakai.

23-May-2007 Awaiting update from Project Lead(s).

Test-harness support for Sakai.

23-May-2007 Awaiting update from Project Lead(s).

Framework technology that models Sakai tools.

23-May-2007 Awaiting update from Project Lead(s).

Materials for Sakai developer training sessions.

23-May-2007 Awaiting update from Project Lead(s).

Support for triple modeling in Sakai.

23-May-2007 Awaiting update from Project Lead(s).

Framework model of user.

10-Sep-2007 Changes to the User Directory Service include:

• Improved performance when retrieving provided users.
• Support for login IDs (for Kerberos authentication, for example) which differ from user EIDs.
• Optional short-term authentication caching to greatly improve DAV performance.
• Can now enable or disable User Directory Provider implementations via the sakai.properties file.
• Reduced number of required methods in the User Directory Provider interface.

(Sample code in the "providers" module does not yet take full advantage of these new capabilities. Work on user directory and authentication providers is expected to continue post-2.5 delivery.)

Various Sakai utility code.

23-May-2007 Awaiting update from Project Lead(s).

Framework technology to support Velocity based tools.

23-May-2007 Awaiting update from Project Lead(s).

Webservices support for Sakai.

Need Description

23-May-2007 Awaiting update from Project Lead(s).

This is an open forum for discussing Sakai accessibility issues.

06-Jun-2007 The Accessibility Working Group is readying Confluence for the next cycle of accessibility evaluation and testing. The tentative dates for reviewing Sakai 2.4 are from June 23 to July 20, with a kick-off meeting June 23 at 10:30. During the last review period, thirty-five reviews were done by the accessibility team at Indiana University!

Find out more about the 2.4 review and sign-up to review a tool at: http://confluence.sakaiproject.org/confluence/x/uq4

Our goal is to produce sets of development documentation and sample code to facilitate Sakai tool development. The idea is to allow a programmer with basic knowledge of Java to go through these tutorials and end up equipped to write a Sakai tool.
We also plan to present day long workshops (called bootcamps) at each major Sakai conference. The cafe bootcamps are intensive day long workshops consisting of presentations and exercises designed to help developers get up to speed developing tools/apps for the Sakai framework. The bootcamps are also intended as a way to present new development technologies and best practices and techniques to developers who are experienced in Java and Sakai development.

23-May-2007 Awaiting update from Project Lead(s).

Documentation for installing Sakai, administering Sakai, Sakai reference documentation, such as architecture, etc. (Help documentation is tracked separately, see Help Project.)

5-Jun-2007 Iterative development of documentation through Confluence. Will look to recruit additional help in fleshing out both Sys Admin guide and software use portions.

A Jira Component to help track installation related issues.

23-May-2007 Awaiting update from Project Lead(s).

General component to track internationalization and localization issues.

21-Dec-2007

• Updated Chinese and Dutch translation
• New Russian translation
• New Portuguese translation
• Support for localized Help text

Handles questions regarding licensing in Sakai, including helping developers determine which third-party licenses are compatible with Sakai's license.

The Sakai QA Working Group tests the Sakai software to ensure it is working as it's expected to and that the changes that were made don't introduce new problems.

4-Jan-2007 The QA working group is continuing with functional testing on the 2.5.0beta tag. The 2.5.0 release has been scheduled for the February timeframe with important new important milestones (beta and release candidates). The announcement can be viewed at http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.cms.sakai.devel/18021. Assistance verifying bugs and performing regression testing is always needed. To find out more about the 2.5 QA and sign-up at: http://bugs.sakaiproject.org/confluence/display/QA/2.5+Release

A Discussion Group for those interested in working on Sakai's User Exerperience and User Interaction.

14-Sep-2007 No specific plans for Sakai 2.5. Work continues on UI Design Patterns.