uPortal Work List

The following to-do items were identified at the ASU uPortal Developers meeting February 9-10, 2004.

A Portlet-to-Channel adapter will definitely be part of uPortal 2.3, but the rest of the features are not scheduled for a particular release. The names listed next to some items indicate those meeting attendees that expressed interest in working on a particular features or set of features.

Aggregated Layouts

• UI for managing pushed fragments
• Improve UI for content subscriber - pulled fragments (Justin TIlton, Jon Allen, and Shawn Lonas)

Integrated Modes Theme

• UI Improvements (Justin TIlton, Jon Allen, and Shawn Lonas)
• New skins (Justin TIlton, Jon Allen, and Shawn Lonas)
• Portlet CSS impl (Justin TIlton, Jon Allen, and Shawn Lonas)

Migration

• Instructions (Susan Bramhall, Steve Barrett, Al Wold, UNICON person TBD)
• Tools (Susan Bramhall, Steve Barrett, Al Wold, UNICON person TBD)

Internationalization

• Mapping Resource Bundles into XSLT (Alex Vigdor, Shoji Kajita)
• Session-based Locale selector
• UI for choosing sorted list of locales

WSRP

• Testing and bug fixing (Steve Barrett)
• Registration interface (Ken Weiner, Kevin Gary)
• Authentication?
• Consumer URL rewriting (Nick Bolton)

Pluto

• Static info provider service (Michael Ivanov, Mark Boyd)
• Dynamic info provider service (Michael Ivanov, Ken Weiner)
• Factory service (Michael Ivanov)
• Deployment process (Mark Boyd)

IoC Frameworks

• Configure Pluto container with service components in Merlin (Michael Ivanov, Peter Kharchenko)
• Build similar configuration in Spring Framework (Bill Thompson, Dmitriy Kopylenko)

Groups and Person Attributes

• Doug Lea's concurrency packages (Dan Ellentuck)
• Improve sequence generator (Dan Ellentuck)
• Groups improvements (Dan Ellentuck)
• Person Attribute Group Service (Dan Ellentuck, Ken Weiner, Al Wold)
• Multi-valued person attributes (Al Wold, Howard Gilbert)
• FERPA concerns (Dan Ellentuck, Steve Valero)
• Group service paging mechanism (Dan Ellentuck, Mark Boyd, Dave Wallace, Al Wold)

Error Handling

• Continue discussion and draft recommendation (Howard Gilbert, Jan Nielsen)
• I18N of error messages (Jan Nielsen)

Misc

• Support for Servlet 2.4 (Tomcat 5) (Howard Gilbert)
• Support DOM3 in our Document impl (Nick Bolton)