As significant new features emerge from research and development projects in Sakai they can be incorporated into an official Sakai release. In May 2009 the Sakai Foundation established the first Sakai Product Council to help structure the process of these new capabilities emerging in Sakai.
The Sakai Product Council will act on behalf of the broad Sakai community to ensure the exceptional quality and cohesiveness of Sakai product releases in their support of varied teaching, research and collaboration needs. It does this formally by determining those projects which will go into a release, and informally by advising projects as they progress from R&D to production-ready maturity. The Product Council will undertake its work: