News from Oct 01, 2008

The Discussion tool was retired and removed from the Sakai 2.5 release, as there was no longer anyone interested in maintaining the code. The alternative tools that folks turned to were Forums and JForum. At the time, no migration path for the content of the Discussion tool was available, however, Nuno Fernandes has recently created a conversion utility for moving Discussion content into Forums. The discussion2forums code is available in Sakai's Contrib Subversion repository. There is a also a README file with basic instructions. Nuno reports that it has been tested with Sakai 2.5, but that it should also work for those still running Sakai 2.4.