No, the old version was only a one time code dump of a portlet authored here at UW and we would probably look at using the new version anyways.

+1 for this approach from me.

-Eric

Drew Wills wrote:
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] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote:

    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]
    <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote:

        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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