Andrew, It would be great to know more about Bucky :-)
What about Respondr? Do you think this will be around long enough to attract many adopters?
I think Universality is dead, but I agree that mUniversality might still have a future. WebViews in native mobile apps still need a theme to render in, especially if the default theme's detached mode renders a sticky header nav bar.
-- Anthony. On 12/11/14 20:56, Andrew Petro wrote:
Drew, I agree that I **feel** Universality and mUniversality should be deprecated and then removed. I’d feel more confident in that with more discussion in this thread: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.java.jasig.uportal/17788 that is, I’d love to know adopters had successfully migrated forward to achieve their theme desires via Bucky and that therefore the product was dropping Universality and mUniversality because in practice adopters were no longer using those. As opposed to the product dropping them without having demonstrated that adopters successfully migrate forward to Bucky. Less about developer feelings and more about the product responding to adopter adoption. So. I think we need a few more rounds of making noise about, hey, what needs to be better about Bucky and what needs to be better about this upgrade path, o Universality and mUniversality adopters, such that your migration forward to Bucky is obvious, before removing these. Visibly deprecating them might be a great step in that making-noise process. Bear in mind that while I'm looking forward to an exciting responsive MyUW feature, the current production default is Universality / mUniversality, and will remain so for the near future. That while James and others have shared promising ideas about how to make Bucky a more suitable upgrade path from mUniversality (render less on landing on mobile), those ideas are not yet implemented. Such that an adopter today could reasonably say that mUniversality is still their best foot forward for some mobile use cases. Once that sounds less reasonable, it's going to be more clearly sound to drop mUniversality. Kind regards, Andrew On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 2:23 PM, Drew Wills <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Should these themes be removed in 4.2 (or 4.3, 5.0, etc.), or should we retain support for them indefinitely? I’m inclined to believe we should remove them at some point, I’m just not sure of the right moment. It’s a bandwidth drag to maintain them, and they’re enough long-in-the-tooth that I don’t see anyone innovating on them. Thoughts? drew -- You are currently subscribed to [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> as: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> To unsubscribe, change settings or access archives, see http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/JSG/uportal-dev -- 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
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