uPortal 2.6

Yes, there will be a uPortal 2.6

• Many institutions using uPortal 2.x

• Have needs for new features, bugfixes, and improvements

• Will be using uPortal 2.5

• And will be looking forward to additional features, bugfixes, and improvements in a uP 2.6.

Many deployers of uP 2.x

Expected 2.6 release date

• Our practice has been to release every six months.

• October 2005

JIRA

• Tool allows us to:– Identify issues (report issues)– Schedule them for a release– Take responsibility for them (assignment)– Comment about the issues– Mark them completed

– See progress towards a release

JIRA

• So, let’s identify goals and issues for uP 2.6, schedule them for the release, and work them.

About issues

About issues

CVS integration

The Head is an exciting place to be

• ALM / DLM work

• Improved JSR-168 support

• Spring and PersonDirectory

• Chaining Throwables (thanks, Eric)

• Bugfixes

• JAXP 1.3

• And more…

Ideas for 2.6

• Stability

• Skinning

• Layout

• …

Stability, Stability, Stability

• Plugging memory leaks

• Fixing bugs

• Making our portal robust

Skinning

• Jason Shao’s ideas and efforts

Layout Management

• DLM

• DLM / ALM marriage

• Programmatic creation of fragments

Nested tabs

• As more content becomes available– e.g., Sakai as veritable treasure trove of

content

• As layout fragments can be created programmatically at runtime

• We need more real estate in which to present the components.

WSRP consumption

Sakai integration work

• Improving uPortal by taking advantage of resources made available by Sakai– Skinning, layout management, nested tabs,

WSRP consumption– Also enabling more portlet view technologies

Bugzilla Jira ideas

• There are good ideas from our Bugzilla days– Persisting minimizedness of channels as part

of layout preferences, e.g.

Issues that slipped the 2.5 release

• Lots of issues for 2.5 we’re not going to get to before the 2.5 release…

Product Maturity

• Stability

• Documentation

• Administrator tools– Channels duplicating ant task functionality

Groups and Permissions

• Extract out into standalone API / jar deliverable?– (Usable across projects).

– Keith Stacks’ Permissions ideas / work• Runtime update to PAGS, e.g.

Other ideas

• What enhancements have we made locally? What enhancements do we need?