OOB Course Specific Roles Student/Instructor/TA – Form archetypes for other roles can be formed
Enrollment status – What is is – Is a a string sufficient?
o What do we do with manually added sttudents?
o Course Site level and section level
o Status of student and status of course
o Restricting Student membership from more than one course section – granularity and how to flag
Prohibiting student in cross-listed course from joining course without cross-listed membership – Can a section parent be another section?
Different types of roles – Can’t all be OOTB – Fine grained permissions rather than roles. Applications =roes Framework = Permissions. Course Sites .vs. project sites. Multiple roles within Applications (Discussion Forum). Need to define metadata associated with roles for purpose of defining them in sections. Combine roles. Restrict roles.
System Admin Requirements –
Surfacing configuration Settings in Sakai – like user setting FERPA.

This is just raw notes from working with Adrian at Lancaster. Ultimately this was me getting up2.4 to work – Adrian did this with up2.5 and after a while I switched and helped him.

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Well I fooled with Unit Testing in Sakai for a few hours and kind of came to a dead end. It was pretty fun and the basic stuff worked. My problem is that I just don’t know where to stop when creating mock versions of stuff. I looked at unit tests in the gradebook and common and there is not much interaction witht he rest of Sakai – I want to create unit tests that can interact with the rest of Sakai. But that means firing up components somehow (or mocking that up), firing up component manager (or mocking that up) etc etc. The problem is that with the structure of unit tests it seems that everyone who writes a unit test is responsible for mocking up the entire rest of the system. This is icky when dealing with a system as large as Sakai with a goal of a rich framework that *everything* depends on. So we will need to develop a way to make unit testing easier. Someone other than me will need to figure this out.

But here are my notes. Thanks to Josh and Lance for their examples.

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The big picture/outline:

http://cvs.sakaiproject.org/release/2.0.1/SourceInstallGuide.html

The attached script is the “magic developer bootstrap thing” – when it runs – you are in great shape.

Pre-requisites

SVN for Mac:

http://metissian.com/projects/macosx/subversion/

Maven

http://maven.apache.org/start/install.html

Add this to your .bashrc_login (or equivalent)

JAVA_OPTS='-server -Xms512m -Xmx512m -verbose:gc -XX:+PrintGCDetails -XX:+PrintGCTimeStamps'; export JAVA_OPTS;

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