Hi all, I find this great idea.
Before doing something like that, I would also love to see some definition of "portal". For example does a portal suppose to have a navigation? Does a portal suppose to contain the information itself or only metadata with references? I would like to see more work on metadata, data/metadata organisation, semantics and separation of content / presentation. Finally I find very critical to have Cocoon in this "Portal Site". Looking forward for it .... Vangelis -----Original Message----- From: David Sean Taylor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, December 15, 2003 11:42 PM To: Jetspeed List Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: portals.apache.org I would like to propose creating a new top level project (TLP) at Apache: portals.apache.org Before doing so, I've started this email thread to introduce the concept. Could you all please provide some feedback and opinions so we can see if everyone stands behind this new TLP. The proposal for portals.apache.org is based on bringing together communities from all of the portal-related projects at Jakarta: 1. Jetspeed 2. Jetspeed-2 3. Pluto 4. WSRP-4J 5. Portlet Applications .... These projects would be moved out of jakarta.apache.org and into portals.apache.org for ex portals.apache.org/jetspeed or portals.apache.org/pluto Goals of portals.apache.org: 1. To promote the use of portlet applications. We view portlets as an important technology in the growing portal and web application environments. We intend to build freely available portlet applications, portal servers, and portlet containers in order to promote the use of this technology. 2. To encourage developers from all Apache portal projects to work together and share common code 3. To develop Portlet Applications and Portlet Application frameworks at portals.apache.org and grow the portal community here. Portlet Applications will be managed as sub-projects. Portal Applications will enable a higher level of application development while cleanly separating the development of portals such as Jetspeed from applications code. 4. To provide a community for portal-related Java and XML standards and reference implementations under the ASF license at portals.apache.org Note that I have cross-posted to all three (Jetspeed, Pluto, and WSRP4J) mailing lists. To respond across mailing lists, respond to ALL. Not sure if this is the best solution, since Im going to receive 3 emails being that Im a member of all 3 lists. But this allows for a cross-discussions between the three developer groups on this thread. (I will also post this same message to the 3 user lists tomorrow.) Regarding Cocoon's portal, I don't understand Cocoon's portal well enough to say it should or should not be a part of portals.apache.org. I have doubts that they would want to decouple from Cocoon, but you don't know until you ask. Of course the Cocoon community is welcome and we should discuss how this can happen. -- David Sean Taylor Bluesunrise Software [EMAIL PROTECTED] [office] +01 707 773-4646 [mobile] +01 707 529 9194 --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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]
