I apologize, I thought we had discussed this and based on replies that
there was a general understanding of what the point of a portal
component in the framework would be.
The general idea is to have a webapp that is part of the framework
that any user can go to and see a "home" screen sort of thing that is
appropriate for their role(s). In other words we would have a number
of portal pages pre-configured for different roles, and permissions to
determine ability to access each. If a user has a permission then the
portal page is available to them, and there could more than one portal
page.
One of the nice things about the "portal" idea is that we can have a
large library of "portlets", which would just be thinly wrapped
screens and shouldn't be too hard to build (not automatic, but not
tons of work either). With these in place a user can customize the
OOTB portal pages or maybe even create their own.
Anyway, this OOTB application would be a generic place to see the
portal pages available and such. The reason to have it in the
framework is to have it be a fundamental part of the project that
other components can build on, mostly by configuring portal pages and
pointing to portlets made available in that component or others in
depends on.
In short this enables an alternate, and easily configurable, UI.
-David
On Mar 26, 2009, at 7:16 PM, Hans Bakker wrote:
Hi David,
this sounds fine...thanks for taking the lead in this, excellent!
I do not quite understand what idea you have moving the myportal into
the framework because it think most of it is already there?
regards
Hans
On Thu, 2009-03-26 at 10:19 -0600, David E Jones wrote:
I'm thinking we should delay the release branch for a couple of
weeks.
Some reasons:
1. more opportunity to collaborate with the PRC on the press release
2. time to find and fix more issue relating to the new security
policy
of no fields submitted to service-backed events in the URL, ie the
link to form conversion thingy that is underway (I thought we were
closer than we are, and I'm guessing it will take a little time for
all of these to shake out)
3. time to get myportal generalized and moved to framework
4. time to get the new OFBiz home page and sub-content in place, and
time for more people (outside of the PMC so far) to offer feedback
on it
5. opportunity to compile a larger list of new features (basically
effort going into expanding the "Main New Features" page), and
perhaps
other marketing related things in and outside of OFBiz (ie: if you
are
a service or derivative work or whatever provider, this is your
chance
to fancy up your web site and other things before the PR push related
to the release branch!)
6. other things?
In short, there are a few things up in the air that would be nice to
have happen around the same time as the release branch. It's true
that
the cutoff date for the release branch is somewhat arbitrary, or in
other words that features in the branch aren't as big a deal as the
focus for the release branch is stabilization and not new features.
Still, this release branch should be the main stabilized branch for
the next 1-2 years for OFBiz, so fixing issues we know are in the
trunk before the branch will help things considerably.
We haven't voted on an official date or anything, and won't until the
actual date to release, so this is all about communication for the
sake of coordination.
Comments more than welcome. In fact, I demand that you comment right
now! ;)
-David
On Mar 25, 2009, at 4:32 PM, David E Jones wrote:
I've started putting together some ideas for the press release for
our upcoming release branch. The time is a little tight... I had
planned on doing this last week but it got lost among other things.
To facilitate collaboration on this I've created a confluence page
for it here:
http://docs.ofbiz.org/display/OFBADMIN/Press+Release+for+Release+Branch+9.3
Before writing the actual press release I thought we should do some
brainstorming, so please add thoughts there (if you are a committer)
or respond to this message with other thoughts.
I'm going to send a message to the ASF PRC to ask for their help and
guidance on this. It may be that they write the actual press
release, so our brainstorming thoughts and details we add there are
probably the most important part of what we as a community put into
this.
Thanks!
-David
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