2.6.0 Changes

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Status 2.6 Priority
Area Change
Assigned To
Sign Off
Notes (regression results , bugs, oddities,etc)
    Access (sv module)   N/A    
    Accessibility
Minor improvements in some JSF tags.     What are these specifically?
    Account        
High Announcements Tim Hull
Charles Sturt
Tim Hull
Testing Summary
 
    Archive (svn module)
       
High Assignments
  • Refactoring of db to improve performance; involves moving selected meta data from XML blob into table columns and supporting migration code.

     JIRA #?
  • Support for multiple submissions of an assignment on an assignment-wide basis.

     JIRA #?
  • Support of custom fields, with timing and role control over who/when can see them (SAK-4384, SAK-7653, SAK-5803, SAK-10211).
  • Improved integration with Schedule and Announcement; when an assignment opens, expose link to the assignment from schedule and announcement (SAK-12160)
  • Addition of navigation widget for grading submissions (SAK-13906)
  • Addition of property to control appearance of in/new column in Assignment list (SAK-13907)
  • For ungraded assignments, change grade link to 'view submissions (SAK-14125)
  • Addition of property to permit sharing drafts Assignment drafts (SAK-11096)
Angela Henry
Tim Hull
Angela Henry
Testing Summary

Tim Hull
Testing Summary
OOTB, there is no role with share drafts. 

SAK-14760 - resolved and closed
    Attachment Widget
       
  Low - provisional
Blog
  • Replaced rendering framework with wicket.
  • Improved performance of db layer.
Charles Sturt    
    Build (Maven)
  • Inclusion of EmailTemplate service to build (SAK-13990)
  • Configure target added to make it possible to configure the app server (SAK-12281)
  • Update pack-demo to use 5.5.26 (SAK-13785)
  • Change of snapshot version to 2.6 (SAK-13938)
Anthony / QA Admins
  thought we were on .27 as of 2.5.3
    Calendar Summary
  • Added indicator with number of events to each calendar day.(SAK-12790)
  • Event description is now formatted as HTML. (SAK-13206)
  • Improved performance, so tool loads faster.(SAK-12887)
  • Hide description field for events without description (SAK-12851)
Diego del Blanco Orobitg Test-case_SAK-12790.rar
Test-case_SAK-13206.rar 
Test-case_SAK-12851.rar
Sak-12790 --> OK
Sak-13206 -> OK <!- /* Font Definitions */ @font-face
Unknown macro: {font-family}

@font-face

Unknown macro: {font-family}

/* Style Definitions */ p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal

Unknown macro: {mso-style-unhide}

.MsoChpDefault

Unknown macro: {mso-style-type}

@page Section1

Unknown macro: {size}

div.Section1

Unknown macro: {page}

-->
With problems about the tags recognised by the editor.
Sak-12887 - Performance issue: difficult to test

Sak-12851 --> OK 

    Calendar Widget
       
    Chat Room
  •  Give users the ability to add more than one chat tool to the tool menu of the site (SAK-12708
  • Updated formatting to synoptic tool to bring in line with other tools (SAK-13201)
Charles Sturt    
    Citations (svn Module)
  • Support for Serials Solutions 360 Search metasearch engine (SAK-13754)
  • Support for returning direct vendor URLs from Search Library Resources and RIS import (SAK-14322, SAK-14282)
  • Upgrade JQuery in citations by pointing to new jQuery.js (SAK-10837)
Sakaibrary Folks
   
    Citations Helper
  • New configuration option for maximum number of databases to search simultaneously (SAK-14166)
  • Support for populating direct vendor URLs from Search Library Resources and RIS import (SAK-13441)
  • User interface improvements (SAK-14326, SAK-14343, SAK-14338)
Sakaibrary Folks
   
    Content-Review (SVN Module)
  •  Add methods to API for locking items (SAK-13489)
N/A    
    Courier (SVN module)
  • Convert HashMap m_addresses to ConcurrentHashMap in BasicCourierService (SAK-12446)
N/A    
  Medium Course Management (SVN module)
  •  Allow admin control over which Academic sessions are current (SAK-12883)
  • CM demo will show more than one term as currently available (SAK-12582)
  • Site rosters based on CM data should remain in sync with nighly CM loads for current academic sessions (SAK-14259)
     
    Course-Site-Admin (SVN module)   N/A    
    Data Warehouse   N/A    
    Discussion (Retired as of 2.5)   N/A    
    Documentation/Reference (non-Help)
  •  Documentation for new component manager functionality (SAK-12600)
  • Add servlet.container property to sakai.properties (SAK-14039)
     
    Drop box        
  Medium Email Archive
  • Performance improvements for handling a large number of messages in the archive (SAK-11544 & SAK-13584) (performance environment is not set up for QA tester, so I cannot test this)
  • Set Reply-to in email archive messaes to the Sakai email address; not sender (SAK-11994)
  • Addition of system feedback to user (ie searching . . ) SAK-12929
Michael Lockett
  I regression tested this end of January/beginning of February
SAK-13910 I am removing from the list because this work was never done
I will test SAK-12929
  Medium Entity Broker
  • Add in REST support for core Sakai types (user/sire/membership) SAK-13884
  • Support getting the prvders as they are registered SAK-14370
  • Imporved encoding to support UX initiative (SAK-14371)
  • Add Bug report emails (SAK-14248).
  • Add REST support (SAK-13374).
  • Add support for Polls (SAK-14216)
N/A    
High Forums
  • Improved reporting
  • Simplify file type icon display logic (SAK-13902) - Closed
  • Re-evaluate insertion of Permission Levels upon startup for clustered environment (SAK-13885)
  • Register Topics, Posts and possibly Discussions as Entities in the Entity Broker and make them available through the direct servlet (SAK-13167)
  • Suppress whitespace at end of messages (SAK-11521) -closed
  • Messages / Forums Events Separated (SAK-10872)
John Hall
Angela Henry
Angela Henry Testing Summary 2.6.0-rc04

John Hall Testing Summary 2.6.0-rc05
2.5.0-rc05 Regression
SAK-16459 

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    Gateway Improve performance when there is a significant number of sites       
High Gradebook Non-graded, non-calculating gradebook items (SAK-10427)  
 - reopened, no fix version specified
Modify gradebook data model to allow for extra credit, equal weighting, exclude grade item from grading, new statistics (SAK-13646)
Validation checking for conflicting settings of letter grade and course grade scales (SAK-13272)
Create methods for providing correct course grades for letter grade mismatch scales (SAK-13204)
Add methods to GradebookService to allow grading respecting gradebook's grade entry type (SAK-13175)
Gradebook / Create Add Gradebook Item Helper Tool (SAK-12180)
Create methods required for gb integration with the Assignment2 tool (SAK-12175)
Allow multiple gradebook item creation at one time (SAK-12114)
Create API for create multiple assignments (SAK-12091)
Angela Henry    
  High Global
  • View Site as if in a Different Role (SAK-7924)
  • Timeout Alert
Indiana
Michael Lockett-Student View
  Test conditions for Different Role:

http://bugs.sakaiproject.org/confluence/display/REL/Student-View-TC
 There are a few outstanding issues that have a solution but hasn't been applied to sakai.  Might need to be tested again if that solution is used.
  Low
Help Fixes from static code review (SAK-12996)      
    Home No changes in 2.6      
    IMSTI No change since 2.5
N/A    
    Install/Upgrade No changes in 2.6 QA Admins
   
    Internationalization Create a "dummy" locale to display the properties key and bundle for quicker location (SAK-13899)      
    JSF
  • Improve formatting and accessibility of ToolBar tag (SAK-13233) -closed
  • Add class/id hooks to Sakai JSF widgets (SAK-3998)
     
    Licensing      
  Low - provisional
Linktool
  • Apply a method which returns the URL of the app server for subsequent webservices calls (SAK-14335)
Charles Sturt    
    Login
  • Distinguish between different types of login events (SAK-6251)
     
  Low - provisional
Mailtool Being deprecated and removed. New version of the tool available in Contrib resulting from a major re-write.      
    Master (SVN module)
  • Update master dependency management version for EB to 1.3.5-SNAPSHOT (SAK-14231)
N/A    
    Membership No change in 2.6      
    Message (SVN module)
  • Improve performance and capabilities of the Message API and storage mechanisms (SAK-12837) - Closed; listed as a bug
  • Further Improve the Performance of the Email Archive and Message API (SAK-13584)
N/A    
    Message Center (deprecated)
  • Clean UP area manager API and Implementation (SAK-12825)
  • Separate Messages / Forums Events (SAK-10872)
N/A    
  High Messages
  • Ability to mark a message as unread (SAK-13942)
  • Simplify file type icon display logic (SAK-13902)
  • Ability to send cc to recipient's email address(es) (SAK-12176)
  • Ability to Reply All (SAK-12073)
  • Include body in replying message (SAK-11914)
  • Separate Messages / Forums Events (SAK-10872)
  • View Site as if in a Different Role (SAK-7924)
Tim Hull Tim Hull
Testing Summary
 
    Metaobj
  • ListScrollIndexer class should optionally hide paging controls if not needed (SAK-14456)
  • Improve efficiency of form handling by caching schemas (SAK-14280)
  • Avoid wasteful calls to resolve UUID (SAK-14279)
     
    Mini No change for 2.6 N/A    
    MOTD (Admin Site Management) No change for 2.6      
    My Workspace
  • Add merge functionality to the My Workspace Schedule tool (SAK-6972)
     
    News (RSS) No change for 2.6 Charles Sturt    
    On-Line (Admin Site Management)
  • Optional ability to identify the hostname from which a user logged in (SAK-6216)
     
    OSIDs (SVN module) No changes in 2.6
N/A    
    OSP: Forms, Glossary, Portal, Portfolio Layouts, Portfolion Templates, Portfolios, Styles, Wizards, Matrix
  • Improvements to UX  
  • Ability to edit and delete feedback and evaluations (SAK-8638).
  • Aggregation of Evaluations across sites via My Workspace (SAK-10139).
  • Better group awareness and filtering in Wizards tool (SAK-11545).
  • Ability to apply an OSP Style to more screens of a Matrix (SAK-12154).
  • Ability to control allowed general and item-specific feedback (0, 1, many) in Matrices and Wizards (SAK-13406).
  • Side-By-Side View to Provide the User with Context for an Item (SAK-12101)
  • Provide the author with the task being performed and the matrix, row and and columns names to the top of the guidance page (SAK-11447, SAK-11449)
  • My Workspace Evaluations tool with aggregated view of all site content (SAK-10139)
  • Upgrade jQuery in osp by pointing to new jQuery.js (SAK-12725)
  • Redesign Portfolio User interface to make it more intuitive to the user ([SAK-14417])
  • Portfolio share page is confusing (sort users and roles) (SAK-14223)
  • Display of OSP portfolio is too slow (SAK-14206)
  • Share screen for Portfolios should list only containing site's roles (SAK-14162)
  • Patch to display wizard/matrix-owner displayName when looking at user's evidence/content/artifacts (SAK-13745)
  • Cell detail page should not include site name in add/select links (SAK-13774)
  • Ability to limit the number of feedback forms that can be provided for any particular cell or artifact (SAK-13406)
  • Change matrix 'form' icon to use same icon as matrix cell 'form' icon (SAK-12709)
Marist   OSP QA 2.6
    PageOrderHelper
  • Upgrade Page Order Helper to RSF 0.7.4 (SAK-14438)
  • Allow sakai.properties setting to control which tools are allowed to have multiple placements in a site (SAK-10244)
  • Allow control over which types of sites the pageorder link appears in (SAK-9447)
     
    Permission Widget (authz) No changes in 2.6 N/A    
    Podcasts No changes in 2.6 Charles Sturt    
  Low Polls
  • Add entity support to Polls tool (SAK-14216)
      - Fix version listed as 2.7 (tentative)
  • Make result headers sortable (SAK-14363)
  • Add TML to main view (SAK-14200)
  • Remove use of Static Cover in Service implementations (SAK-12077)
Charles Sturt    
  High Portal
  • Develop an iFrame portlet that will completely replace the tool iFrame; this will eliminate one frame for web content tools. *
  • Add a new view which allows a tool to request that it be shown maximized and in a frame set rather than an iFrame; helpful for things like publisher content, SCORM players, etc. that already have left-hand buttons and in preventing double scroll-bars. 
  • Enhance support for displaying site hierarchies (SAK-12350
     - Fix version listed as 2.7 (tentative)
  • Create a unique ID for every bug report (SAK-14478)
  • Session Timeout Popup Utilizing Polling data from entity broker (SAK-13987)
  • Add user logged-in status to SkinnableCharonPortal.startPageContext() (SAK-13465)
  • Turn all menus into nested lists, validate, new styles, test with pda/phones (SAK-12718)
  • Create a way for JSR-168 Tools to Request that they be shown with no left navigation (SAK-12402)
  • Show the name of the logged in user (SAK-10492)
  • View Site as if in a Different Role (SAK-7924)
  • Allow site presence display to be controlled by site property (SAK-2607)
    "service or framwork"
  N/A Portlet (SVN module) No changes for 2.6
N/A   "service or framwork"
  N/A Post'Em No changes for 2.6 N/A    
  N/A PreferAble No changes for 2.6 N/A   This should be removed
    Preferences
  • Customize Tabs is now the default initial page; pages can be re-ordered (SAK-6545)
  • Improved functionality for re-ordering tabs (SAK-12870)
  • User configurable number of tabs (SAK-11710).
Tim Hull    
    Presence
  • Added option to log presence events even if presence list is disabled (SAK-8499) - listed as a bug
  • Allow site presence display to be controlled by site property (SAK-2607)
     
    Presentation Retired and removed from the release for 2.6
  • Add description to slide view (SAK-14468)
     
    Privacy (SVN module) No change in 2.6 N/A    
    Profile No change in 2.6      
    Providers
  • Configure the default authz group provider without editing source code and rebuilding (SAK-12583)
  • Add missing javadoc to (SAK-13380)
  • Regexp-based EID blacklisting in JLDAPDirectoryProvider (SAK-12909)
  • Extend JLDAPDirectoryProvider to derive user email address attributes from EIDs (SAK-12848)
  • Update and clean up documentation for Kerberos provider (SAK-9438)
N/A    
    Quartz Scheduler No change in 2.6      
    Realms (Admin Site Management) No change in 2.6 N/A
   
    Reference (SVN module)
  • Allow server side use of library resources  (SAK-13342)
  • Add SAK-12852 configuration options to sakai.properties (SAK-13186)
  • Add iPhone web clip icon to build (SAK-12920)
N/A
   
    Release Management No change in 2.6 N/A    
    Reports No change in 2.6      
    Reset Password
  • Provide fr_FR locale for Reset Password (SAK-14369)
     
    Resources
  • Documentation- Recent d/l of Oracle driver (SAK-11960)
  • Announcement hide/show default dates - make same as Resources (SAK-10678)
Charles Sturt    
    Rights (SVN module) No change in 2.6 N/A    
    Roster No change in 2.6      




  Rwiki
  • Allow both /wiki/site/SITEGUIDorALIAS or /wiki/SITEGUIDorALIAS for accessing wiki (SAK-13854) - Closed
  • Allow enable/disable of wiki reads events through sakai.properties (SAK-11214) - Closed
  • Use search-api for RWiki searches (SAK-9577)- Closed
  • Incorporate Right To Left text into Wiki (SAK-8663) - Closed
  • Include Confluence style WYSIWYG editor in RWiki (SAK-8535) - Closed
  • Improve default Home Page for RWiki (SAK-7430) - Closed
John Hall
Charles Sturt 
  Blockers involving WISIWIG editor.
    Sakai Maven Plugin (SVN module) No change in 2.6 N/A    
    Sakai-Mock (SVN Module) View site as if in a different role (SAK-7924) N/A    
    Samples (SVN module) No change in 2.6 N/A    
    Schedule
  • iCal External Subscription support in Schedule Tool (SAK-12852)
  • iCal export alias should be required (SAK-12830)
  • Add CaldAV support to Sakai's calendar service  
  • Calendar List Printable View is not localized (SAK-12900)
  • Add Unique constraint on Calendar Event (SAK-12777)
  • Inconsistent use of colons next to form fields (SAK-12409) - Closed
  • Add a link back to an assignment in the Calendar and Announcement Tool (SAK-12160) - Closed
  • Add Merge functionality to My Workspace Schedule tool (SAK-6972
  • Calendar event types should be configurable (SAK-3713)
  • Dates in view by month provide a very small target for mouse (SAK-1111) - Closed
Angela Henry
   
    Search
  • Extend the Search and rWiki height calculation script (SAK-13111)
  • Examine issues identified by static code review (SAK-12970)
  • Search across site and sites (SAK-8038)
  • My Worksite Search with all joined contexts (SAK-6703)
Charles Sturt    
    Section Info No change in 2.6      
    Site (SVN Module)
  • Remove provider associations when site is deleted (SAK-12536)
N/A    
    Site Archive (Admin Site Management) No change in 2.6      
  High Site Info
  • Setting in sakai.properties to make the display of Edit Class Roster optional (SAK-3566)
  • Add ability to sort/list users by status (SAK-4045)
  • Add ability to delete existing site content and replace it with the content from another site during site import (SAK-12433)
  • Give users ability to add more than one Chat Tool to the tools menu of a site (SAK-12708)
  • Separate the "Add Participant" scenario out as helper from Site Info tool (SAK-14403)
Angela Henry

Testing Summary
 
High Sites (Admin Site Management)
  • Allow multiple instances of new tools (SAK-7209)
  • Allow site tools to be used as helpers (SAK-12314)
  • Refactor 'manage groups' functionality in site setup into a helper (SAK-13501)
Angela Henry
   
    Sites (Gateway) No change in 2.6      
    Skins (CSS)      
  N/A SUTool No change in 2.6
     
  N/A Syllabus No change in 2.6      
    Tab Management
  • Add ability to move to top or bottom with one click in Customize Tabs (SAK-12870)
     
    Test Harness (SVN module) No change in 2.6 N/A    
High Tests & Quizzes (Samigo)
  • Allow editing a published assessment (SAK-8432)
  • clicking buttons in Settings in Samigo closes everything (SAK-11894)
  • Samigo published assessments should be registered as Entities in the Entity Broker and available through the direct servlet (SAK-12569)
  • Ability to release assessments to groups (SAK-13058)
  • Negative point value for incorrect answer selection (SAK-14106)
  • Ability to share question pools with site members (SAK-14147)
  • Disable Save for Later button for Timed Assignment (SAK-14271)
  • Show the anonymous users their test results immediately after they submit the assessment (SAK-14273)
  • Enhancements to the recording applet used in the Audio Recording question type (SAK-14380)
  • Ability to bulk download file submissions by section in Assignments/Samigo (SAK-14414)
  • Add a Save for Later Confirmation screen (SAK-14415)
  • Mark for Review needs to have better instructions and/or be configurable (SAK-14430)
  • Allow ability to copy pending assessments (SAK-14463)
  • Display assessments Last Modified information (SAK-14470)
  • Multiple Choice question with multiple correct answers; ANY choice gives full credit (SAK-14472)
  • Need save button at the top of edit question page (SAK-14473)
  • Auto-submit at due date in Tests & Quizzes/Samigo (SAK-14474)
  • Make 'Quick Create' feature on out of box(SAK-14518)
Angela Henry
   
    Triples (SVN module) No change in 2.6 N/A    
    Twin Peaks No change in 2.6      
    User (SVN Moule)
  • Improve exception error messages when authentication fails (SAK-7620)
  • Provide sample code for provider-supplied Sakai-stored user records (SAK-12435)
  • Allow JLDAP UDP to be configured auth or auth first without code modification (SAK-13378)
N/A    
    User Experience
  • UXI Improve CLE v1.0 (SAK-14283) - OPEN  
  • Announcement hide/show default dates - make same as Resources (SAK-10678)
  • Show the name of the logged-in user (SAK-10492)
     
    User Membership
  • Include the created and last modified date on the screen and in the CSV export (SAK-12087)
  • Filtering the searching and viewing of users to only those users with the same named usertype(s) (SAK-12088)
     
    Users (Admin User Management) No change for 2.6
N/A    
    Velocity (SVN module)
  • Redo Tool toolbar for velocity based tools (SAK-12991)
  • Make FCKEditor in velocity tools configurable (SAK-13244)
N/A    
    Web Content
  • Option for displaying a link and user-entered WYSIWYG text 
  • Redo tool toolbar for web content (SAK-13018, SAK-12991)
  • Remove unused *.properties bundle entries from English version to help translators (SAK-12596SAK-12522)
     
    Web Services
  • Get a list of users in an authzgroup (or site) (SAK-14300)
  • Remove an individual member from a site (acts on Site rather than AuthzGroup) (SAK-14301)
  • Returns title of a site (SAK-14302)
  • Returns description of a site (SAK-14303)
  • Returns site joinability (SAK-14304)
  • Checks if a user exists in an authzgroup (or site) (SAK-14305)
  • Gets XML doc of all users in an authzgroup (or site) with the given role(s), including username, displayname, and role (SAK-14306)
  • Modifies a site's title value (SAK-14307)
  • Modifies a site's skin value (SAK-14308)
  • Modifies a site's joinable value (SAK-14309)
  • Modifies a site's iconurl value (SAK-14310)
  • Creates a session for a given user without knowing their password (admins-only, for security reasons) (SAK-14311) - OPEN (fix version specified as "none") 
  • Gets the displayname of a given user (the original was session based, this is more flexible) (SAK-14312)
  • Get a custom property of a site (SAK-14313)
  • Set a custom property for a site (SAK-14314)
  • Remove a custom property for a site (SAK-14315)
  • Check if a role exists in a given authzgroup (SAK-14316)
  • Search for users that meet the given criteria and returns xml (SAK-14317)
  • Add contact name and email to site given a siteid and username (SAK-14318)
  • Copy calendar events from one site to another (SAK-14349)
  • Check if authzgroup exists (SAK-14350)
  • Get list of groups in a site  
  • Get list of participants in a group  
  • Another signature of addNewSite() that takes an additional flag to tell it to copy the site's resources over as well 
  • Create new worksite groups (SAK-13388)
  • Add filtering to web services out of the box (SAK-13689)
Diego del Blanco Orobitg    
    WebDAV
  • Eliminate references to ContentHostingService cover in webdav module (SAK-12377)
  • Distinguish between different types of login events (SAK-6251)
     
    Worksite Information No change in 2.6      
    Worksite Setup / Site Info
  • Using import from site, add ability to delete existing content and replace with content from another site (SAK-12433)
  • Allow sakai.properties setting to control which tools are allowed to have multiple placements in a site (SAK-10244)
  • Add ability to accommodate multiple course instructors (SAK-12216)
  • Add ability to launch a user search app for Add participants filed (SAK-12346)
  • Remove redundant code dealing with add/edit site tools (SAK-14385)
  • Integrate Wsetup tool with email template service (SAK-12995) - OPEN 
  • 'Add a course(s) and/or section(s) not listed above...' should check if course/section already has worksite (SAK-11377)
Angela Henry
   
    WSRP (SVN module)   N/A    
    WYSIWYG Widget (FCK Editor)
  • FCKeditor upgrade to version 2.6.2, which brings in bug fixes and better Safari support (SAK-13844).
  • FCKeditor plug-in to allow users to embed entities.

Ian Goh (Mac testing)
Testing Summary FCKEditor.doc
Safari displays WYSIWYG editor - able to do bold, italic, underline, lists; new issues with Find and Replace (affecting both Safari and Firefox)



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