David Ramsey wrote:
>
> Folks,
>
> I would be more than happy to coordinate the development of a more
> complete set of install documents for Jetspeed. I plan to start with the
> tomcatsolaris.txt document and build from there.
>
> When I have the document (plain ASCII text) done, I will submit a first
> draft to the list here for corrections and additions. Hopefully, we can
> get a list of all of the typical "gotchas" that I've seen spring up here
> in the email time and time again (many of which got me as well). Perhaps
> once all of this content is specified we can make this available online
> as well.
While that would be great... the new install for Jetspeed 1.2b2 will be
practically brain dead simple. At the minimum if you want a different
configuration you at least have a working configuration from which you
can reverse engineer to see how
things connect together.
> I also plan to scavenge through the mailing list archives for
> configuration info as well. However, if I have questions on a particular
> issue, I may raise it here to get a better understanding of it in order
> to document it fully.
>
> One thing I would like to ask is that the core development team send me
> the contents of their Tomcat classpath, if you have customized it at
> all. In this regard I would also appreciate knowing if you have removed
> any of the default jars that ship with Tomcat (i.e. jaxp.jar perhaps),
> or other changes you have made there. Often the answer to a problem
> seems related to the classpath and learning what you, the committers,
> have in yours and documenting that could alleviate some grief for others
> in the future.
Run the tomcat-build. It doesn't use a CLASSPATH and it works fine :)
> Also, since the PSML and portlet registry seem to be in a high state of
> flux, I also volunteer to coordinate changes related to these documents
> that should be part of the installation and setup procedures.
+1. This needs to happen :)
> Finally, if you are using a database other than MySQL and want to see it
> included as an addendum to such an install document, please send me
> details of your current configuration. I will include as many database
> setup configurations as are submitted.
+1
> I have two code areas that are of particular interest to myself and my
> employer. These are the admin screens and the customizer application. I
> plan to begin familiarizing myself with those areas as well. Depending
> on how much effort I initially end up putting into the installation
> documents, I hope to be able to perhaps make contributions in those
> areas as well.
Yeah.. they are important here too :)
> For the last 2 months I have been largely a lurker here but now am ready
> to try to begin contributing, at least in some small way, to the
> project. If there is anything else I can do to assist, please let me
> know.
+1... good to hear you are on board :)
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