We have a bookmarks portlet but I would have to see if it is the bundled
version. We can probably dig up some data on usage. To be honest, I
don't see it having prominent position in our redesigned portal. Perhaps
it is old school and I support taking it off the default welcome tab.
Regarding clutter and build time, perhaps we need to refactor how things
are bundled and what that means. It should be dirt-simple to add
portlets to your install. Perhaps we could trim uPortal to only "bundle"
framework portlets if it is easy to distinguish which portlets are
up-to-snuff and easy to add.
JimH
On 12/10/13, 3:42 PM, Drew Wills wrote:
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?
drew
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