VetMed Developer's Meeting
April 18, 2007
General Discussion
Question from Chris about how to respond to faculty questions about their cross-listed course in the Fall, i.e., how to combine Resources, etc. for 2 different courses, dealing with upcoming faculty issues.
Sakai 2.3/2.4 migration plans
Scott on Sakai 2.3 review
Review of refactoring for 2.4 - significant changes, plus small, detailed changes; currently compiling a local instance to examine code base and changes from 2.1.x structure. Will need to plan out the refactor/restructure local code implementations, e.g., imports (from CREST, external data?) need to be separated out and reimplemented.
Working on generating a list pre-requirements to enable 2.4 version.
Timeline: production pilot in summer sessin 2, ready for production in fall
Expects that by end of spring quarter - 2.4 up and running on my (dev version)
No problems anticipated with eval
Eval Status
Eval in full production ss2
Deliverables - preview of evaluations; patching for multi-term releases; admin page updated tricked out; close out winter qtr evals (cannot be re-opened); working on faculty report - some db changes needed to associate instructor w/department (and confirm new users are added to appropriate department) - add properties to sakai user properties; 1 department per instructor for evaluation purposes.
Staff evaluations? student evaluations? who gets the reports (department user is assisting in? Or user's department? Does data show up in department-instructor report?
Considerations of what changes would be required to release evals to collab as contrib branch; discussion of local dependencies; some interest from community in UCD's version;
Systems
Beau gearing up for db migrations