Now that 1.2 is out the door, I am resending this email to potential
contributors...
As Matterhorn goes into pilot and production at more institutions,
adopters will undoubtedly be making changes to the code. We expect to
see custom workflows, encoding profiles, security configurations, Atom
and RSS feeds, and other customizations that we haven't thought of,
requiring deeper changes to underlying services or user interfaces.
This is why Opencast, through our supporters at Atlassian, offers space
in our subversion source code repository for institutions to store and
share their Matterhorn customizations. We've adopted the Sakai
foundation's practice of offering "msub" directories in SVN, as
described here [1]:
"mSub (or massively-inclusive Subversion) was implemented to provide
each ... Partner organization with a common, shared space in which to
keep a copy of their local ... implementation or implementations... This
approach offers a number of advantages to both the organization itself
and the community as a whole:
* easier to manage local customizations
* easier to share production code with other organizations
* easier to compare customizations across organizations looking for
important trends
* easier to contribute production-tested code, bug fixes, or
customizations back to the community repository for inclusion in
future releases"
There are other ways to share customizations, such as using a
distributed version control system and a public hosting site [2], [3],
but these require different tools than those being used by the
Matterhorn developers and therefore make merging between repositories
difficult.
We therefore encourage anyone who is interested in customizing
Matterhorn to do so in a public "msub" directory. Simply send an email
to [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> to
request an msub directory for your institution.
[1]
https://confluence.sakaiproject.org/display/PROD/Deployment+Source+Code+Repository+%28mSub%29
[2] https://github.com/
[3] https://bitbucket.org/
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