Recognizing the need for excellence, the community has plotted a clear, evolutionary path for new tools to enter the Sakai Enterprise Bundle. A tool typically starts as a contribution from a specific institution. It may have developed this to meet a local need or, perhaps, an individual developer wanted to see a capability in Sakai and took it upon him or herself to do the deed. It may be unclear how many others will be interested in using the tool. It may simply be a proof of concept. There is an area reserved in the Sakai source code repository called Contrib (https://source.sakaiproject.org/contrib/) for this kind of development work. The Contrib repository is very open — anyone can request a development directory there and does not have to follow Sakai licensing practices to make contributions.
The primary quality assurance for Contrib tools comes from the local institutions and developers themselves. The community QA process does not test the tools in Contrib...