uPortal 3 Community Development Roadmap

This is a first draft of a JA-SIG community roadmap for the development of the uPortal 3 project. This roadmap is being published in order to foster discussion about what the complete functionality of uPortal 3 should be and in what order the remaining things should be developed. The intent is to discuss this roadmap at the Fall 2006 uPortal Developer meetings in Madison, Wisconsin.

This roadmap is currently divided into three timeframes with specific goals as follows:

Short Range - Provide an initial release of uPortal 3 that could be used in pilot projects and potentially in production deployments. This release will have the following critical restrictions: only supports Simple Layout Management (SLM), only supports the legacy uP2 rendering context, has minimal support for legacy IChannels, has no migration tools, and has a very basic set of available portlets. This release should be feature-complete and ready for QA testing before the December 2006 JA-SIG Conference in Atlanta.

Medium Range - Add in full support for Distributed Layout Management (DLM), complete the new uP3 rendering context that will include a full AJAX framework and drag-and-drop interaction, provide powerful layout customization capabilities, and generally focus on providing the best possible portal user experience. Deliver a complete set of migration tools for sites moving from uP2 to uP3. Add several new standard portlets. Provide support for optional portlet modes and window states from JSR-168. Build formal performance testing into the project.

Long Range - Implement new rendering contexts for Accessibility and for Mobile. Continue to add new standard portlets. Improve the user interfaces of the administrative tools. Create complete statistic recording / event tracking capabilities with a full reporting framework. Support running more than one organization in a single portal instance. Extend the administrative user interfaces to cover most functions and eliminate as much manual editing of configuration files as possible. Fully test and document clustered configurations.

Again, the reason for putting together this roadmap is to begin community discussion. Areas of discussion should include the following:

Are there things that are missing entirely from this roadmap? (Of course a great deal of work has already been completed on uPortal 3 and this roadmap is only covering work that still needs to be done - so if you think of something that's not on the list, it may already be done.)
Are there things that are in the wrong timeframe on this roadmap? What should be done sooner? What should be done later?
We should probably prioritize the work into a larger number of smaller releases rather than just the three general timeframes discussed here. How many releases should we schedule across? What items should go in each release?
Do the level-of-effort estimates included below seem reasonable? Which ones are too big or too small?

Timeframe Details

Development Estimates

The level-of-effort time estimates included here are in manhours and are only for the time to write automated unit tests and to develop the functionality. The estimates generally do not include time for the following: requirements, design, system testing, integration testing, user acceptance testing, performance testing, documentation, or project management. All these areas will also need to be addressed as the project continues to move forward.

Spreadsheet Attached

All of the detailed content below comes from an attached Excel spreadsheet. If you are going to make changes to the content below, please make it to the spreadsheet first.

Short Range Tasks

Area	Function	Existing JIRA Issue(s)	Best Case Estimate	Worst Case Estimate	Weighted Average	Web Dev	%	Java Dev	%	Status	Comments

Area	Function	Existing JIRA Issue(s)	Best Case Estimate	Worst Case Estimate	Weighted Average	Web Dev	%	Java Dev	%	Status	Comments
Known Bugs	Migrate remaining DDLs to Hibernate		8.0	16.0	13.3	0.0	0%	13.3	100%
Known Bugs	Support Hibernate ID key generation with Oracle dialect	UPT-120	24.0	36.0	32.0	0.0	0%	32.0	100%	completed
Known Bugs	Rendering of all portlets fails if one application definition can't be loaded	UPT-122	8.0	16.0	13.3	0.0	0%	13.3	100%	completed
Known Bugs	Clear portlet domain object cache when portlet preferences are modified by portlet manager	UPT-110	4.0	8.0	6.7	0.0	0%	6.7	100%	completed
Known Bugs	Resolve outstanding bugs in integration of groups servant into the portlet manager for permission selection	UPT-154	4.0	8.0	6.7	0.0	0%	6.7	100%	Completed	UPT-116 should be done first
Known Bugs	Fix remaining Pluto test portlet failures	UPT-67	8.0	32.0	24.0	4.8	20%	19.2	80%	completed
Known Bugs	Publish valid portal layout DTDs on www.ja-sig.org - This is a transitional layout DTD, for uP2 backwards compatibility	UPT-168	2.0	4.0	3.3	1.7	50%	1.7	50%	complete
Known Bugs	Simultaneous requests for the same user session fail. This hasn't been replicated, but requires more testing, since it's a potentially serious bug	UPT-113	8.0	24.0	18.7	0.0	0%	18.7	100%	completed
Known Bugs	Fix PortletInfo persistence problems	UPT-109	8.0	16.0	13.3	0.0	0%	13.3	100%	completed
Misc Minor Features	Implement default rendering context selection	UPT-114	4.0	8.0	6.7	1.7	25%	5.0	75%	completed
Misc Minor Features	Add foreign key constraints for portlet object IDs in hibernate	UPT-99	4.0	8.0	6.7	0.0	0%	6.7	100%	Completed
Misc Minor Features	Better organize existing spring configurations. This involves rearrangement of scoped beans, config file names, conventions, etc.	UPT-153	24.0	40.0	34.7	0.0	0%	34.7	100%	Completed
Misc Minor Features	Replace CommonUtils with Jakartas' CommonLang methods	UPT-159	6.0	8.0	7.3	0.0	0%	7.3	100%
Misc Minor Features	Add authorization checks for portlet subscription and rendering	UPT-170	16.0	32.0	26.7	0.0	0%	26.7	100%
Technical Refactoring	Conversion remaining administrative portlets to Spring Portlet MVC	UPT-103, UPT-152	48.0	80.0	69.3	17.3	25%	52.0	75%
Technical Refactoring	Remove window attributes & servant-specific URL constructors	UPT-116	32.0	64.0	53.3	0.0	0%	53.3	100%	completed
Technical Refactoring	WSRP DAO migration to Hibernate		60.0	80.0	73.3	0.0	0%	73.3	100%
Technical Refactoring	Review/revise/extend automated unit tests		40.0	60.0	53.3	0.0	0%	53.3	100%
Generic Portlets	Simple Inline Frame support	UPT-205	1.0	2.0	1.7	0.3	20%	1.3	80%	Completed	Trivial to implement if not already present.
Generic Portlets	RSS Portlet	UPT-212	16.0	40.0	32.0	6.4	20%	25.6	80%	Complete	Implemented as a specific XSLT usage as in uPortal 2 - time is for completing and testing the full functionality
Groups and Permissions	Complete initial release of GAP module		40.0	80.0	66.7	0.0	0%	66.7	100%	completed
Groups and Permissions	Complete integration of GAP into uP3		8.0	24.0	18.7	0.0	0%	18.7	100%	completed
Groups and Permissions	Ensure PAGS capability from uP2 exists in uP3		16.0	40.0	32.0	0.0	0%	32.0	100%
Group Manager	Administratively add, edit, delete groups		4.0	20.0	14.7	2.9	20%	11.7	80%	Completed	Part of group manager. Needs to be tested
Group Manager	Manage membership of local groups		4.0	20.0	14.7	2.9