I think it should be blue. :-o Andrew Petro wrote: > Cris, > > My viewpoint is this: this is a bikeshed issue > <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_of_the_bikeshed>. What is needed > is for someone to take ownership of it, to make it better, and to be > done with it. I'm hoping that someone will be you. > > [ > If I did make a suggestion for the renaming, it would probably be to > rename it "uPortal_tomcat_5.5.xml" or something similar. I always > thought "uportal.xml" and "uportal55.xml" suggested a problem with the > 'naming convention'. > ] > > Please just go ahead and rename the file to whatever you think best, > updating comments as necessary. > > > Bikeshed issues are those where a developer comes along and proposes > to make a simple, small, but real improvement. Usually it's something > that's needed done for a long time and no one did anything about it. > Since it's a simple improvement, many people *could* have an opinion > about the issue, and even *could* have addressed it at any time. > > Since anyone could plausibly weigh in on details about the bikeshed > issue, often attempts to make progress on bikeshed issues are derailed > by endless discussion. I'm probably guilty of participating in that > sort of thing way too much. And it can even reach the point where > *fear of a bikeshed discussion* impedes progress. > > > I'd love to rename the file, > > but didn't think I'd have as good a shot at getting consensus buy-in > for that. > > "I'd love to make uPortal better, but bikeshed discussions about > details of what a context file is named prevent my contributing." > > > Cris, just re-name it. Feel fully empowered to name this file > whatever's the best quickly-thought-of name you can come up with, > update the comments, make sure the build works, and we can move on. > > I would suggest that anyone who feels the need to push back on you > about that can find lots of other uPortal issues to work on. Maybe > could work on a featureful layout manager for uPortal 3. > > uPortal is entitled to cause deployers a little pain in upgrading > minor versions where doing so improves the platform. Existing > deployers can deal with the file rename. > > Andrew > >> Well, I'd love to rename the file, but didn't think I'd have as good >> a shot at getting consensus buy-in for that. I do think it could be >> confusing for upgraders and therefore thought I'd get some push back. >> >> I'd also like to try this under Tomcat 6 sometime, but I just don't >> have the cycles to do that this week. I think a more important step >> is to fix the Portlet deployment situation so it doesn't rewrite the >> web.xml to a an ancient servlet spec version, which makes using any >> of the latest servlet/jsp stuff impossible (which is presumably one >> reason you'd be using Tomcat 6). >> >> If I did make a suggestion for the renaming, it would probably be to >> rename it "uPortal_tomcat_5.5.xml" or something similar. I always >> thought "uportal.xml" and "uportal55.xml" suggested a problem with >> the 'naming convention'. >> >> But overall at this point, I'd rather make the very very small, >> slight change of simply removing the Tomcat 5.0 config file and >> commented out lines from build.properties. This change would not it >> impossible to do any other rename change in the future, it's just a >> step along the way. >> >> ---- Cris J H >> >> Jason Shao wrote: >>> On Jun 15, 2007, at 11:36 PM, Andrew Petro wrote: >>> 1. Should the current uPortal55.xml file be renamed to uPortal.xml? >>> This would be consistent with past practice, but potentially >>> confusing for upgraders. Or Does uPortal{VERSION}.xml become the new >>> naming convention? Or is there tooling that can always generate the >>> right target file for us? >>> 2. Do we need a tweaked file for Tomcat 6? >>> >>> Jason > > > -- > Join your friends and colleagues at JA-SIG with Altitude: June 24-27, > 2007 in Denver, CO USA. > > Featuring keynotes by: Phil Windley, Matt Raible, Matt Asay > Sessions on topics including: CAS, uPortal, Portlets, Sakai, Identity > Management, and Open Source > > For more information & registration visit: > http://www.ja-sig.org/conferences/07summer/index.html > --- > You are currently subscribed to uportal-dev@lists.ja-sig.org as: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To unsubscribe send a blank email to > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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