On 12/10/2013 02:15 PM, Jim Helwig wrote:
Very simple portlets might not require regular commits. What is the motivating rationale?
Nothing more than a desire to de-clutter, if we're not interested in it any longer. A chance to save a modest amount of disk space, build time, and ongoing maintenance & documentation efforts.
We have many more bundled portlets these days than originally, with the likelihood of more in the future.
The Bookmarks portlet is in competition with tools like delicious, pinterest, social networks, and the browser itself. Feature-wise, it doesn't measure up. I just don't see many folks wanting to enter their bookmarks into their school portal.
And yet it's on the Welcome tab of the quickstart data. I would be delighted to learn that I have it all wrong -- but I'm concerned that we're not putting our best foot forward by giving real estate to this empty tool when it comes to new folks evaluating the portal. I'd be happier giving the real estate to portlets like Notification, Calendar, Courses, Email, Contacts, etc., where it's easy to showcase pre-configured content, and it's easier to provide valuable content in the portlet the first time a user logs in.
And so I suppose we could consider taking it off the Welcome tab, but not de-bundling it. But we know only a fraction of users find portlets that are not on their original layout (their fragments). In a way that approach would exacerbate the issue -- what portion of the user population would both (1) find the Bookmarks if it weren't on their layout originally and (2) be interested in entering their data?
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