Greetings to all,
First, I'd like to thank all the people I've met in London for the very
good time I've had in this convention and the lot of ideas that were
exchanged during this time. Kevin, you were sorely missed.
For the benefit of those who could not come to London, here is a quick
summary of the main points that were discussed and actions proposed :
- get the CVS HEAD branch working again :
Kevin, if you can commit your changes, please do it ASAP.
If your changes are not ready, I'd propose that we create next week
a branch out of the current HEAD so that you can continue the work
on proposal 3 and that we merge the pre-proposal003 branch as
HEAD.
This way new people interested in Jetspeed can check out a working
version of the product.
- update our dependency on Turbine to benefit from the new
developments of the framework (new ACL model, templating, etc...)
I'll work on the template model of Turbine to see if we can upgrade
the PSML and rendering implementation to use templates without
breaking the Portlet API.
- better installation procedure and documentation.
As usual... but it's really required due to the complexity of the
beast. (I was really surprised at the number of people who
successfully managed to install Jetspeed...). I think the Xo3
people can definitely help us on this since they have already
build a packaged distribution of Jetspeed.
- move the product to better support XML
As discussed some months ago, Jetspeed should really rely on the
Cocoon 2 framework for its layout and publishing capability. Now that
Cocoon 2 is usable, it's time to start thinking about how to
implement Jetspeed on top of it to fully leverage its publishing
power.
This will most likely break a lot of things over the current
Jetspeed so I'd think the best way to tackle this is to start working
on a new Jetspeed 2 design, focused on creating a device-independant,
pluggable and dynamic XML layout aggregation system
I'll send a proposal to the list on this topic next week, once my
ideas on the subject have settled a little. We already had quite a
few interesting discussions on this subject during the conference.
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Rapha�l Luta - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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