2011-10-19

 

 

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Attending: Susan, Cris, Tuy, Tim, Benito
Absent: Steve

Sakai / Jasig merger impact on incubation

  • Susan talked with Patty 9/15. (See notes from September meeting)
  • Susan working on getting joint committee to tune up the process to work for all communities.
  • Susan flesh out Conceptual - Product Suite Style Governance as proposal to board.  Now waiting to do this with joint group with Sakai.
  • Susan review new website pages pages and spiff them up - perhaps get new icon / logo.  Also deferred to work jointly with Sakai.

(question) Will anyone from Incubation be at Educause?

  • Benito: no
  • Steve: no, but there will be ANU IT directors there
  • Susan, Tuy, Tim: no

New Incubation requests

Tuy asked for Eric to share this portlet.  Accepted and assigned to Tuy.

TKeySummaryAssigneeUpdatedDescriptionPeople
Candidate ProposalINC-41People Soft HR Integration Portlets Susan Bramhall03/Oct/11A set of portlets that integration with the PeopleSoft HR system using PeopleSoft's web services. The provide information such as payroll, benefits, contact information, time & absence & manager time & absence approval. The portlets are written with their own data model such that a non PeopleSoft backend could be created.

Initial committers:
Eric Dalquist
Tuyhang Ly

Sponsor
Jim Helwig

Incubator Status

 

ID

Name

Assignee

Project Lead

Status / comments October 2011

INC-6

Bookmarks Portlet

Benito J. Gonzalez

Eric Dalquist

Eric commented "I've added a NOTICE and LICENSE file and used the license plugin to update all source headers." This was the last requirement missing. Is this project ready for sponsorship?  Benito update Jira this week and Susan raise at board meeting.

INC-29

IT Ecosystem

Benito J. Gonzalez

Justin Montgomery

Tom Barton asked that we leave this as a UChicago offering for now (rather than an un-sponsored contribution).  Terminated incubation.  Send email to Tom.

INC-28

Confluence Portlet and Plugin

Benito J. Gonzalez

James Kionka

Have not reached out to James for an update since last meeting.  Benito send email to James.

INC-7

Functional Tests Portlet

Cris Holdorph

Eric Dalquist

Low priority

INC-38

Exchange Mail and Calendar Portlet

Cris Holdorph

Charles Frank

Now have ICLA.  Cris will ping for status.

INC-26

Spring Portlet MVC JSR-168 Archetype

Cris Holdorph

Charles Frank

Now have ICLA.  Cris will ping for status.

INC-15

Content Management Portlet

Cris Holdorph

Misagh Moayyed

Misagh has now started at Unicon so update expected soon.

INC-30

Self Service Accounts Portlet

Steve Swinsburg

Andrew Petro

contacted Andrew 18th October. Still no reply from any email since April. What do we do with unresponsive leads? Susan sent email to Andrew.  No response.

INC-40

Basic LTI Portlet

Steve Swinsburg

Steve Swinsburg

What do I need to do to progress this? Is the licensing in order? Our CLA's should be sorted. Are we now using git for source control?  Moving forward again after email with Susan.

INC-23

Sakai connector

Steve Swinsburg

Steve Swinsburg

What do I need to do to progress this? Is the licensing in order? Our CLA's should be sorted. Are we now using git for source control?  Moving forward again after email with Susan.

INC-9

OpenRegistry

Susan Bramhall

Benn Oshrin

Asked Tom and Benn for status.  Same as last month. [Waiting to see if joint initiative work will help OR.]

INC-11

esup-helpdesk

Susan Bramhall

Pascal Aubry

Susan will recommend to board that incubation be terminated and determine talk with ESUP.

INC-36

uMobile, A Native Mobile App for uPortal

Susan Bramhall

Jennifer Bourey

Ready to graduate as soon as an adopter is official.

INC-39

Simple RSS Portlet

Susan Bramhall

Steve Swinsburg

email sent to Jen and Steve.  Discussion started on incubation list.

INC-35

ThinkSpace

tim carroll

Pete Boysen

working on CLAs

INC-22

Deployer Portlet

tim carroll

Andy Gherna

no change. [Tim asked Andy to contact Eric Dalquist about including the deployer portlet in uP4]

INC-27

Xythos Portlet and Plugin

tim carroll

James Kionka

no change. [Added license headers to code, and added screen shots to project wiki.  Waiting on shared CSS work to conclude build documentation.]

INC-16

Search Portlet

Tuyhang Ly

Jennifer Bourey

No change.  [Susan email sent to Jen - no response]

INC-17

Widget Portlets

Tuyhang Ly

Jennifer Bourey

No change. [Susan email to Jen - no response]

INC-37

Scheduling Assistant

Tuyhang Ly

Nicholas Blair

  • Nick and Gary Schwartz support the proposal to bring the Scheduling Assistant under the aegis of the Bedework Steering Committee.
  • Release 1.0 is now available.
  • Susan talk to Gary about updating name and scope of Bedework committee to Calendaring Applications Steering committee.  Should it calendar portlet be included too?
  • Is there a need to have another committer from another school?  A commitment to be supported if Nick were to leave would be enough.
  • Tuy will reach out to Nick and Gary about support scenario in case of Nick leaving project.

Prior Status

ID

Name

Assignee

Project Lead

Comments / Status September 2011

INC-6

Bookmarks Portlet

Benito J. Gonzalez

Eric Dalquist

Emailed Eric -- no response yet

INC-29

IT Ecosystem

Benito J. Gonzalez

Justin Montgomery

Emailed Tom about making this an unsponsored contribution or leaving it at U Chicago -- no response ye.  Recommend to board when we know.

INC-28

Confluence Portlet and Plugin

Benito J. Gonzalez

James Kionka

James will be adding build documentation and should have a CSS update soon.

INC-7

Functional Tests Portlet

Cris Holdorph

Eric Dalquist

Eric should have more time soon

INC-38

Exchange Mail and Calendar Portlet

Cris Holdorph

Charles Frank

developer ICLAs still needed

INC-26

Spring Portlet MVC JSR-168 Archetype

Cris Holdorph

Charles Frank

developer ICLAs still needed

INC-15

Content Management Portlet

Cris Holdorph

Misagh Moayyed

Misagh will be Unicon employee soon.  Expect more follow up.

INC-30

Self Service Accounts Portlet

Steve Swinsburg

Andrew Petro

Still have not had any reply (since April this year, and subsequent emails each month)

INC-40

Basic LTI Portlet

Steve Swinsburg

Steve Swinsburg

Need to get source into repository, I believe the licensing is in order?

INC-23

Sakai connector

Steve Swinsburg

Steve Swinsburg

Need to get source into repository, I believe the licensing is in order?

INC-9

OpenRegistry

Susan Bramhall

Benn Oshrin

Active discussions about registries as an outcome of initiative to do work to fill gaps in OS IDM landscape.  Jeremy has been participating.  This could be good news for long term sustainability of OR and for general health and activity of the project.

INC-11

esup-helpdesk

Susan Bramhall

Pascal Aubry

No work came out of the conference.  Gary / Susan suggest recommending to board that this become an unsponsored contribution.  Not sure if this makes sense since project id not housed in Jasig (I think).  Need to explore what this would mean.

INC-36

uMobile, A Native Mobile App for uPortal

Susan Bramhall

Jennifer Bourey

uMobile 1.0 GA this week.  All requirements fulfilled except diverse community and adopters.  No real harm in leaving to incubate until we have at least one adopter.

INC-39

Simple RSS Portlet

Susan Bramhall

Steve Swinsburg

uMobile phase 2 will update NewsReader.  Jen still intending to talk to Steve about combining.  Comments, Steve?

INC-35

ThinkSpace

tim carroll

Pete Boysen

Addressing issues on several fronts.  Pete met with the university lawyers.  On the surface the agreements don't seem to cause any problems but they need to check the existing NSF, USDA and Dept of Ed grants to make sure there are no problems.  Hopefully done in the next two months but you know lawyers.

Pete met with the faculty to discuss growth and dissemination.  While JASIG will be good for technology management they are unsure about faculty training and development.  Associating with Sakai might change that but those conferences tend to be technology-focused rather than faculty-focused.  He may need to take another tact for that.  Any thoughts would be appreciated.

Finding additional programmers is going to be the biggest hurdle, which Pete knew would be the case.  He is getting other institutions on-board but they tend to come out of departments, not central IT.  With budgets the way they are, they are not inclined to provide funding or staff.  Pete has tried CS grad students funded through grants but that has not worked well.  2 FTEs would be ideal, one for Java programming and one for Java UX design but less would be ok.

INC-22

Deployer Portlet

tim carroll

Andy Gherna

I asked Andy to contact Eric Dalquist about including the deployer portlet in uP4

INC-27

Xythos Portlet and Plugin

tim carroll

James Kionka

Added license headers to code, and added screen shots to project wiki.  Waiting on shared CSS work to conclude build documentation.

INC-16

Search Portlet

Tuyhang Ly

Jennifer Bourey

Susan email sent to Jen - no response

INC-17

Widget Portlets

Tuyhang Ly

Jennifer Bourey

Susan email to Jen - no response

INC-37

Scheduling Assistant

Tuyhang Ly

Nicholas Blair

Bedework committee is willing but need to explore with Nick.  He did not originally like this idea.  Not sure why.