I thought he had said something about that at the Jasig Unconference.  And yes, 
*please* do share! :)

- Jen


On May 20, 2010, at 10:20 AM, Carroll, Timothy Dale wrote:

> We have a portlet deployer portlet that we are using for development 
> purposes.  How about I have Andy submit that for incubation?
> 
> TC
> 
> 
> On May 20, 2010, at 8:12 AM, Jennifer Bourey wrote:
> 
>> Hi Tim,
>> 
>> I really appreciate the thoughtful feedback.  It's really helpful to have 
>> people discuss strategy and desired features on list, and I hope we see more 
>> discussion in the future :)  A couple comments below:
>> 
>>> 1. I like the idea of exposing all the import/export features (even entity 
>>> types for example) through a web service API.  We do frequent environment 
>>> reloads for test environments, and I think an API like that would enable 
>>> some cool batch automations in that area.  And, it may also provide (more 
>>> readily) support for distributing the load of those batch processes to 
>>> other machines.  I still see Cernunnos being leveraged here but in a way 
>>> that allows remoting as a separate distinct application.  Some other uses 
>>> of this in a prod environment might be extracting that data and 
>>> munging/analyzing things in an application used for... troubleshooting, 
>>> reporting, provisioning, or deprovisioning (again running on a separate 
>>> machine to distribute any load).
>> 
>> Sounds like a pretty reasonable use case.  Maybe at some point you could 
>> help create a list of features that are missing from the existing 
>> import/export portlet that you'd like to see?  From what you've described, 
>> it sounds like a first step might be enabling the portlet to consume and 
>> export multiple files at a time.  Perhaps we could consider having it 
>> consume and produce zipped directories of files similar to what's in 
>> uPortal's data directory?
>> 
>> I have to admit I've been wanting to figure out how to use the Fluid 
>> uploader component for that portlet for a while, since it has a very nice 
>> interface for uploading multiple files.  I'd also love to see a portlet 
>> deployment portlet, even if it were really only useful for single-machine 
>> development instances.
>> 
>> 
>>> 2. The other area I can think of right away would be the actions related to 
>>> the stats database.  Some analysis tools would likely bubble up quickly as 
>>> result of some API exposure there.
>> 
>> Yes, it would be fantastic to have some stats tools.  I think Eric actually 
>> has already done a little local work on some analysis tools.  For the 
>> statistics, I think the most important first step would be to get the stats 
>> aggregation tool in the sandbox to work with non-Oracle databases.  Once 
>> that's done, we could turn on the stats service by default and start 
>> collaborating on some tools.  If you or anyone with some database expertise 
>> is willing to help out, that would really help get the project moving.
>> 
>> Thanks again,
>> 
>> - Jen
>> 
>> 
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>> Jen Bourey
>> Software Developer
>> Unicon, Inc.
>> 
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