Jen,
I'm all for replacing the old with the new unless some new compelling
evidence in favor of keeping the old comes to light.
Questions (basically restatements of yours):
- Have there been any recent updates to the old version?
- Is anyone currently using the old version? If so, is there any
feature gap?
If no one speaks up on behalf of the existing Feedback portlet, I'd
think you're free to replace it.
drew
Jen Bourey wrote:
I'd like to go ahead and get this in the ja-sig repository, but I want
to minimize confusion with the other feedback portlet. Are there
critical features present in the other portlet that aren't in the
unconference version? Do we want to have two versions? A suggestion
was put forward in IRC chat to replace the trunk of the current
FeedbackPortlet with the unconference version, but I wanted to see if
anyone is currently relying on the trunk.
What would other people like to do? Should we combine the projects, or
keep two versions? If we combine them, would people like the new
version to go into the trunk, or into a branch until more people have
looked at it?
- Jen
On Jan 23, 2008 10:29 AM, Jen Bourey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Great! Once I get it posted maybe we can determine whether there
are any other features that should be added.
I also really like the idea of having a consolidated email list. I
worry that needing to create a separate JIRA instance, email list,
svn location, etc. will be too much overhead for new projects and
might prevent people from sharing their work. I also worry that
separating out all the lists will prevent people from hearing
information that they might be interested in. I know I'd prefer to
just join one portlet email list and hear about all updates, rather
than needing to join a new list every time a portlet I'm interested
in is created. Especially since many portlet projects might be
fairly small, it seems to make sense not to create too much
administrative infrastructure around them. As we add portlets to
the uPortal distribution or create a portlets package, having a
consolidated email list may become even more use! ful.
- Jen
On Jan 22, 2008 11:46 AM, Drew Wills <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Great work Jen! I'll be talking to the schools I work with
suggesting
they put it in their portals.
Jason Shao wrote:
>
>> One idea is perhaps a jasig-portlets-user and
jasig-portlet-dev list
>> to consolidate a bit as we don't have much portlet related email
>> traffic on any list as of yet.?
>
> I suspect that portlet-specific infrastructure makes the
possibility of
> our really cool "XXX" portlet also looking open to deployers on
> non-uPortal platforms, wheras jasig-portlets feels like it's
a JA-SIG
> specific portlet bundle.
+1 from me for consolidated email lists (Eric's version) -- also for
consolidated JIRA & Confluence space, etc. At least, I suggest that
small, general-purpose JA-SIG portlets -- harmless ones that most
schools should at least consider deploying -- can share an
infrastructure. Anything big or specific, like SIS integrations or
perhaps a suite of personal data tools that work together,
probably can
and should be separate.
Insisting that every portlet must have its own version of these
resources seems like a big barrier to entry for a little
portlet. I'm
afraid it will influence folks to hold on to things they might have
contributed.
And if you create a new email list for each portlet, who will
sign up?
I suspect each individual portlet won't generate much traffic --
keeping
them together means that anyone who subscribes will get some
good info
about new portlets or cool new features in existing ones.
drew wills
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