Today is the nominal day for code freeze for Sakai 2.4 – of course Sakai 2.4 is the major release for Sakai for 2007. For me I have been a bit more technical the last few months in my push to get JSR-168 and many other portal features into Sakai.
Code freeze is good because it focuses one – but I have been letting my non-technical duties slip a bit the last six weeks. Particularly my inbox which has balooned to 920 unprocessed messages. Aargh. But the fact that the portal is in good shape thinks to Ian Boston and David Dewolf – I can get back to answering all the mail and putting “sorry it took so long to respond” in front of each message..
I think it will be worth it – 2.4 will be with us for a long time as with all of the other Sakai June releases – so we might as well make it as awsome as possible.
:)

Did some QA of the Sakai JSR-168 portlet support with Marcus Chirstie and Marlon Pierce of Indiana Unviersity. Found a bug and decided that we needed Help and Edit mode support. Off goes two solid hacking days :)
But code yeilds eventually and I just committed the stuff. Interestingly – this makes my todo list for 168 realy short – and just in time for code freeze.
To test, do this
check out a copy of sakai
The also check out the portlets into the source directory:
svn co https://source.sakaiproject.org/svn//portlet/trunk/ portlet
and them compile it .
The Sakai Test Portlet shows up in the site list.

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