I like the idea, however (or in addition) as time pasts (with Jetspeed 2) I think the Jetspeed CVS will be able to be more portlet container oriented and select a core set of portlets for the main distribution. I imagine it would concentrate on the services to provide to portlets, and the administration of portlets, layouts, users, etc. Portlet application "war's" could be separate from the portal server repository. In that situation the portlet contributor could mark their portlet's as version 2.xx compatible, etc.
For example, if 5 people wanted to contribute different versions of a StockTicker portlet they could perhaps submit it to the "catalog" with: Title: title Description: description Provider: name Compatible: J2.xx, J2.yx Download URL: License: etc... Of course, having them in CVS would help facilitate better collaboration, community bug tracking, fixing, and all the great advantages of open-source`dom. So perhaps no download url, nor license, but rather a "unsupported" branch of the CVS as mentioned. Am I jumping too far into the future... probably. But IMHO Mark's suggestion moves towards that path; ? -----Original Message----- From: Mark Orciuch [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 22, 2003 2:08 PM To: Jetspeed Developers List Subject: RE: [PROPOSAL] Contributed portlets page > When you say "contributed portlets", it makes me think that they are > contributed to the Jetspeed CVS. > Shouldn't the portlet documentation go in the Portlet Catalog? They are "contributed" but not "committed". Another example would be WebSurfPortlet. > > Or are these portlets that are not in the CVS, perhaps for licensing > reasons... > Licensing may be one reason. Another would be complexity and future maintenance issues. Not all contributors are committers and not all committers have the time for integration. However all contributions are valuable and we should provide a centralized place to access them. Since we don't have a true portlet repository, I though we'd have a page pointing to the publishers' sites. I think that Jetspeed-2 portlet applications contributed by others could also be placed on that page. Best regards, Mark Orciuch - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jakarta Jetspeed - Enterprise Portal in Java http://jakarta.apache.org/jetspeed/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
