Please comment if you notice inaccuracies or missing items, so that when
I insert it in the board agenda all is right. TIA

Portals Report (2005-Q1-Q2)

Q1 report was committed to the agenda, a bit late, but I guess Board
never saw it, so I include the info back here.


Executive Summary
Pluto keeps releasing minor bugfixes, jetspeed released 1.6, the last
stable version of the 1 series, and keeps releasing milestone builds
towards 2.0. We completed migration towards jira and subversion, except
for incubating wsrp4j, which is in process.

General Progress
Interest in jetspeed has been raising steadily. The portlet spec is
getting awareness and traction from vendors and companies. Jetspeed 1 is
more and more stable and supporting JSR-168 portlets since 1.6. Jetspeed
2 gets closer to the release and is fairly stable now, lacking mostly
documentation, bugfix and performance work. Pluto has been fixing bugs
and releasing minor RC builds on its way towards 1.0.1. 
Two Google SummerOfCode grants were accepted to work in the project. One
for jetspeed, mentored by Santiago Gala, to get an ajax rendered for the
jetspeed-2 portal. Other for wsrp4j, under incubation, to be mentored by
Julie MacNaught, in order to refactor the donated code and have a better
build system.

Releases
Jetspeed released 1.6, with JSR-168 support, in May. Two milestone
builds (M2 and M3) in our way towards version 2. Pluto released minor
bugfix release candidates, 1.0.1-rc3 recently, and work is under way,
with 1.0.1-rc4, for a 1.0.1 release. Work for a refactored 1.1 release,
which will focus on having cleaner portlet container to portal APIs is
about to become the focus.

Open Issues
- WSRP4J problems with regards to Oasis IP policies have been detected.
No further action will be taken until global conversations with the
parties involved yield some fruit.
- A bridge to code portlets using php is being developed. It requires
php sources to build, as it uses jni. Clarify licensing uses.

Changes in Committership
Craig Doremus (Pluto), in February
Diego Louzan (WSRP4J), in February

Changes in PMC membership
Nick Lothian (Pluto) in January
Ate Douma (Jetspeed), in February

Regards
Santiago
-- 
VP and Chair, Apache Portals (http://portals.apache.org)
Apache Software Foundation

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