Last year Jasig began to focus more directly on encouraging collaboration among institutions for the purpose of contributing to a free, open source library of shared portlets. We currently have a number of such portlets in incubation and available for production use.
Our goal is to add to these portlets, to provide a robust infrastructure for their development, to ensure that the portlets continue to be maintained, and to keep them portable across all standards compliant portals. Our hope is that we will attract work that is particularly useful for higher education institutions, including portlets that feature integration with a number of external campus systems. To assist developers in working towards these ends we have recently created a volunteer position of "Portlet Release Manager" with the following responsibilities: - Help define, review, and document release requirements and best practices for adopted Jasig portlets - Help define, review, and document portlet development best practices to encourage implementation of JSR-168/JSR-286 standards and compatibility with multiple portlet containers and versions - Assist developers in transitioning their portlets from incubation to sponsorship - Assist developers in effectively using Jasig portlet project resources such as the Jasig parent POM and maven repository - Coordinate with the uPortal release manager, developers, and Steering Committee to recommend and update the portlets and portlet versions shipped with uPortal releases - As the community defines requirements for a standalone portlet bundle, assist with managing and releasing that hypothetical future product We are very pleased to announce that Jen Bourey, from Unicon, has agreed to serve as Jasig Portlet Release Manager. Jen has been active in the uPortal community for a number of years, both while at Yale University and in her current position at Unicon. She has been a uPortal committer, a portlet author, and someone who has generously offered support on our lists to both uPortal implementors and portlet developers. Jen will be monitoring the portlet-user and portlet-dev lists. If you would like information about making a contribution or if you have any questions about our portlet efforts, please direct them to the appropriate list. -- Jonathan Markow Executive Director -- You are currently subscribed to [email protected] as: [email protected] To unsubscribe, change settings or access archives, see http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/JSG/uportal-dev
