Forum .LRN Q&A: .LRN 2.0 RFC

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Posted by Carl Robert Blesius on

I did a developer survey recently to get a good feel for our status as we approach the November .LRN 2.0 release.

We need to solidify this so we can push for a beta this week.

Will update the Roadmap so it reflects reality after I get some feedback.

Feel free to send feedback per e-mail if preferred.

 

.LRN 2.0 (November 2003)

Packages

Weblog Package with Portlet (in)
Wimpy Point Package with Portlet (in)
Events (in)
Improved survey (in - need feedback to be sure)
News Aggregator (need feedback)
Photo Album with Portlet (need feedback)
Curriculum Package (need feedback)

Infrastructure

Batch user sync using IMS 1.1 (in)
Realtime user sync (in)
Workflow Support (in)
External Authentication -- LDAP+PAM (in)
Internationalization (i18n) (in)
noquote (substantially increased security) (in)
Themes (is there a chance?)

 

.LRN 2.1 (Spring 2004)

Packages

Profiles (need info - can this go into contrib now?)
Chat Integration (need info - should I move this up into 2.0)
Complex Survey (2.1)
Grade Book (2.1)
Course Registration Tool (2.1)
Research Enhancements (2.1)
Help Package / better documentation (2.x)

Infrastructure

General Ratings (2.1)
General Categories Support (2.1)
Additional IMS and SCORM Support (2.x)
Additional Roles (2.x)
ACS-Subsite Review, Rewrite, and Integration(2.x)
New-Portal Review, Rewrite, and Integration (2.x)
Half Open Groups (?)

The roadmap will have explanations of the list items above. This is meant for package developers and involved parties. Please let me know if I am leaving something out.

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2: Re: .LRN 2.0 RFC (update) (response to 1)
Posted by Carl Robert Blesius on

Here is the updated list after feedback:

.LRN 2.0 (November 2003)

Packages

Weblog Package with Portlet (in)
Wimpy Point Package with Portlet (in)
Events (in)
News Aggregator (in)
Photo Album with Portlet (in)
Curriculum Package (in)

Infrastructure

Batch user sync using IMS 1.1 (in)
Realtime user sync (in)
Workflow Support (in)
External Authentication -- LDAP+PAM (in)
Internationalization (i18n) (in)
noquote (substantially increased security) (in)
Themes cleanup (in)

 

.LRN 2.1 (Spring 2004)

Packages

Chat Integration (2.1)
Complex Survey (2.1)
Grade Book (2.1)
Course Registration Tool (2.1)
Research Enhancments (2.1)
Profiles (2.x) Can go into contrib. now (after talking to Al). Can someone from Sloan please do this?
Help Package / better documentation (2.x)

Infrastructure

Themes support (2.1)
General Ratings (2.1)
General Categories Support (2.1)
Additional IMS and SCORM Support (2.x)
Additional Roles (2.x)
ACS-Subsite Review, Rewrite, and Integration(2.x)
New-Portal Review, Rewrite, and Integration (2.x)
Anonymous access for sections of courses or community (e.g. created content)(2.x)

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3: Re: .LRN 2.0 RFC (update) (response to 2)
Posted by Matthias Melcher on
I think we should distinguish between
- 2.0 RFC (including movement of postponed packages from  2.0 to 2.1)
- 2.1 roadmap planning (including new modules).

The discussion about the totally new packages is not as urgent as 2.0, so I would not add these too early:

"Themes support (2.1)
Additional IMS and SCORM Support (2.x)
Additional Roles (2.x)
Anonymous access for sections of courses or community (e.g. created content)(2.x)"

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4: Re: .LRN 2.0 RFC (update) (response to 3)
Posted by Carl Robert Blesius on
Matthias,

I had to survey developers and other involved parties to get an inventory of where things are.

2.0 is pretty much set (PhotoDB is the only thing I am not totally sure about... the portlet was written but nobody has used it).

Things labeled 2.1 are projects that already have momentum behind them, but are not yet ready for 2.0.

Anything that I labeled 2.x are projects that someone has mentioned wanting to do, but it is not clear *when* they will actually come into play.

All but the 2.0 objects are estimates Matthias. I am just trying to take the pulse of the community to inform (and help coordinate). As soon as we get 2.0 out we can start solidifying and modifying the roadmap.

Carl

P.S. I forgot important improvements that will be in 2.1: WebDAV and a needed overhaul of File-Storage UI (thanks to Musea and Sloan).