David, I’m very exciting about the new features and counting days for this release, thanks for your effort.
2009/3/27 David E Jones <david.jo...@hotwaxmedia.com> > > 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 >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> -- >> Antwebsystems.com: Quality OFBiz services for competitive rates >> >> >
