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Raphael Luta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> 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.

Wish I could have been there :(

> 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. 

+1.  I would say that we should go this route.  The PSML stuff is somewhat
stable now but certainly not ready for development on. :(

>   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.

Yeah..  I haven't had a chance to look at the new Turbine stuff.

> - 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. 

This is already done.  I did this a couple months back with the Tomcat build.
It takes Tomcat and merges/installs Jetspeed and all required libs into a Tomcat
WAR and sets up Tomcat to do everything.

> - 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.

yup.

>   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 

yes.... it would be nice to get something ou tthe door... There is a lot of cool
pending code.  I think we are at the point where it makes sense to also 

>   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.

Kevin

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Kevin A. Burton ( [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] )

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