March 2005 uPortal Developers Meeting Agenda

Meeting moderated by ~edalquist

The following agenda is a rough schedule for the meeting. The times are meant to give a guide for the flow of the meeting and will probably change slightly during the course of the meeting to account for differing levels of interest in the topics.

General Topic Outline:

• uPortal 2.4.x Status
  • Performance Issues - ~battags
    • Memory Leaks
    • Profiling
  • More 2.4.x releases? - ~awp9
    • Discuss the possibility of maintaining more than one patched branch.
• uPortal 2.5 Status - ~edalquist
  • Features of this release and status of those features
    • PersonDirectory Service re-factoring and the use of Spring in 2.X - ~awp9
    • DLM Integration - ~mboyd
    • RDBMServices
    • XML API move to JAXP
    • Portlet support enhancements
      • Expiration based caching
      • Render parameter persistence
      • Redirect & WindowState changes during action
  • Release happens within a couple weeks after this meeting
    • Are there any critical issues blocking the release?
    • Are there issues we need to push back to make our release?
    • Who will be in charge of the release?
    • Thread pool re-write using JDK1.5 compatability library
• Release quality assurance
  • Status of JUnit tests in 2
  • JUnit standards and documentation
  • Status of running the HEAD
• Documentation - ~jaf30@cornell.edu
  • Role of Role of uPortal.org
  • Role of Confluence
  • Future of portal_documentation
• Role of the JASIG Clearing House
• uPortal 2.6 - ~awp9
  • Yes, there will be a uPortal 2.6
    • October 2005 expected release
  • Release theme - uPortal 2.5 has as its theme "Aggregated Layouts revisited" and by the time of this meeting we will know what kind of success that theme has been. What will the theme be for the 2.6 release?
    • Marrying Aggregated Layouts and DLM?
    • Product Maturity: making uPortal more stable, better documented, easier to configure and deploy?
    • Other ideas?
  • Release content
    • uPortal 2.6 will contain resolution of issues that are posted into JIRA, scheduled for 2.6, and resolved before the 2.6 cut date.
    • What bug fixes and local enhancements are you maintaining that you'd like to see in baseline uPortal?
  • Permissions - ~kstacks
    • Fine-grained permission grants and grant restrictions (user attributes and groups)
    • Runtime updates to PAGS
• uPortal 3 Progress - ~pkharchenko
  • Project Roadmap is on Jira
  • Rendering components and contexts
    • Trees: structuring rendering paths
    • Filters: building up content
    • Context component pattern
    • uP2 context configuration example
  • Pluto implementation - ~edalquist
  • Layout Managers
    • Simple user layout manager
    • ALM plans
  • WSRP consumer & producer - ~mvi@immagic.com
  • Navigation & State
    • Back button support: what is the desired functionality?
    • Session Replication
  • Development items & responsibility
    • Authentication (acegi, OSID)
    • integration of uP2 modules
      • Groups & permissions
      • Directory service
      • DbLoader
    • Channel adapter
    • Portlet development
      • Providing portal services to portlets
      • general approach: existing frameworks, current developments, custom options
      • administrative portlet(s): developing flexible and uniform management UIs
    • QA & Testing
      • Need to get time commitments from community to participate in QA and testing efforts
• Leadership Responsibilities
  • Release manager(s)
  • jasig-dev mailing list approval
  • CVS commit access approval
  • Decision making