I would very much love to see this project break out of the aforementioned "trappings of projectness" as well, yes. Is there a venue preference for its web presence (wiki vs. http://www.ja-sig.org/products/portlets/bookmarks/)? I'm a fan of cleaning up the Channels and Portlets spaces in the wiki, following suit with the great work being done in the uPortal manual space. I'm also a fan of creating supporting e-mail lists for such projects, so long as it doesn't create more of an administrative burden than it's worth. Any thoughts on naming convention for such lists (<project>@lists.ja-sig.org)?
--Chris From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Andrew Petro Sent: Saturday, June 02, 2007 1:14 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [uportal-dev] Bookmarks Portlet Chris, The incremental approach sounds best, yes. I have no problem being listed as the project lead, so long as it's okay with everyone else. +1 [1] for an incremental approach involving making these improvements in bookmarks /trunk and frequently tagging and releasing working code. Thanks to some last-minute assistance by Eric and others, this Bookmarks Portlet will ship with uPortal 2.6.0 as an example showcasing the JSR-168 support. I'd love to see it be feasible to include updated versions of the portlet in subsequent patch releases of 2.6. Chris, per our discussion at the JHU dev meeting, I wonder if this is an opportunity to build out the "trappings of projectness" around this project -- a clearer web presence, whether in confluence or at http://www.ja-sig.org/products/portlets/bookmarks/. Email list(s) dedicated to discussing developing and deploying this portlet could help to give it identity? Andrew [1]: (including the Apache sense of implicit volunteerism to help if necessary) -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Eric Dalquist Sent: Saturday, June 02, 2007 9:44 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [uportal-dev] Bookmarks Portlet Sounds wonderful Chris. With the current place bookmarks is I think you can probably do the development in the trunk. If we need to fix something in 1.0.7 we can just branch back there and fix it. My first thought as to how to approach the changes would be in an incremental fashion so things still work after each change. That may not be possible for all changes but it is a noble goal :) Also would you be interested in being listed as the project lead for bookmarks? All that means is you get to cut releases (or delegate that responsibility) and manage the Jira project. Thanks for the interest in moving bookmarks forward. -Eric Chris Doyle wrote: I just wanted to give everyone a quick heads-up regarding some work I am interested in tackling (pending the groups' blessings, of course). Last year I began working on (yet another) Bookmarks Portlet here at JHU, which was prior to my awareness of Eric's. At the developer's meeting in April, I shared my progress with Eric and we agreed it might be beneficial to try and merge some of the more useful features of mine in with his. Most notably, I have implemented features that address the following open issues: PBOOK-7 Drag and drop folder and bookmark moving PBOOK-24 Seeding the bookmarks portlet PBOOK-25 Multiply publishable PBOOK-26 Multiply subscribable (*partially begun work on subscription mechanism) PBOOK-27 Read-only, administrator updatable mode PBOOK-29 CBookmarks upgrade path PBOOK-42 Provide a user option for default folder state To begin this work, I'd like to create a new working development branch in SVN: https://www.ja-sig.org/svn/portlets/BookmarksPortlet/branches/JHU I don't anticipate being able to complete the merge in time for the upcoming conference, but would like to aim for a release later this summer. How does this all sound to everyone? Just a little background on my current version... - It's already Maven-ized (using Maven2) - I use the Spring Portlet MVC (the project is very Spring-y in general) - I use the concept of "groupings" or sets of bookmarks: - Conceptually, one XBEL document = one grouping - Groupings can be "pushed" to specific uPortal users/groups - Administration of groupings can be delegated to specific users/groups - Groupings can be set to read-only - There are some nice portlet parameters for configuration - I have written some web services around it using Axis2 - I developed and use both a Java client, as well as a JS client via AJAX - due to AJAX web service calls, there are very few actual page reloads - I wrote a conversion utility used to upgrade from CBookmarks - Caching using ehcache - The UI is pretty nice (floating DIVs for input, dropdown menus, etc.) - Drag and Drop! :) All that being said, there are also some major deficiencies, limitations, and definitely some portability obstacles to be addressed. (Everything is a constant work in progress, right?) But I think I might be ambitious (or crazy) enough to give this merge a try. Thoughts? Blessings? Curses? Thanks, --Chris -- Join your friends and colleagues at JA-SIG with Altitude: June 24-27, 2007 in Denver, CO USA. Featuring keynotes by: Phil Windley, Matt Raible, Matt Asay Sessions on topics including: CAS, uPortal, Portlets, Sakai, Identity Management, and Open Source For more information & registration visit: http://www.ja-sig.org/conferences/07summer/index.html --- You are currently subscribed to [email protected] as: %%emailaddr%%. To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Join your friends and colleagues at JA-SIG with Altitude: June 24-27, 2007 in Denver, CO USA. 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