For that to be possible, since we're planning on GA being released before the conference, the work would need to be complete by March 21st. If this sounds reasonable to you lets get going on this and please let everyone on-list know what they can do to help get the layout changes made.
Thanks! -Eric Jen Bourey wrote:
Hi all,While trying out the up3 quickstart, it occurred to me that we might want to put some thought into updating the default user layouts before the GA release. Some of the channels are pretty old, and a few of the feeds are broken.I was thinking it might make sense to add some new example feeds - perhaps ones that might be particularly useful to end users (maybe the NY Times or BBC News, or something like that) or are JA-SIG related or otherwise technology focused. New image channels in addition to the Daily Business Cartoon might be nice too. The number of available RSS feeds has increased substantially in the last few years.Having updated CWebProxy and IFrame examples might be nice too. In particular, it would be nice if we had a site or two with a clean, small layout (not very wide, in particular) that would display nicely as CWebProxy or IFrame channels. It seems like there's some content in the default layout that isn't necessarily particularly interesting by itself, but serves as a useful example, such as the Minesweeper channel. Maybe some of these channels could be labeled as "Example Applet", "Example Image Channel", etc. This might also make it more clear what features the channels are intended to demonstrate. I'd also love to make some of the new, cool portlets like the Google search and bookmarks portlets more visible.I think the guest layout in particular could use some modification. The DLM admin guide probably isn't the most useful thing to see as the very first screen you see after downloading the quickstart. Also, I don't know if that channel is actually being updated; pointing to the documentation in the up3 manual and the wiki might make more sense at this point. It might be particularly cool to have a list of useful uPortal related bookmarks in the portal. I was thinking of something that maybe had links to the up3 manual, the wiki, the JA-SIG newsletter, email lists, the list of uportal-driven sites, commercial partners, etc. Someday it would be pretty neat if we had a way of initializing a bookmarks portlet with this list. For now, that seems like a heavy list for this release, but it would be easy to implement this as a CGenericXSLT channel for the time being.Does this sound like something that might be valuable for the 3.0 general release? Do you all have opinions and suggestions regarding what new content we could add? If we came up with a new layout, or layout modifications, I'd be more than happy to modify the layout resources that are used to set up the up3 database accordingly.If we do decide some updates are a good idea, where might be a good place in the wiki to start recording this information for collaboration?- Jen
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