portlet list on jasig site may need some work

[Gary Weaver]

There are a number of other portlets listed on this new page that are
noted as "JASIG hosted" but all that means is that JASIG is hosting
them, not necessarily that they are working or that there is a release
version of it compatible with the current version of uPortal (or any
version of uPortal):
http://www.jasig.org/portlets/

I would like to make the suggestion that there be some indication on
that page what the current stable release version of the portlet is,
what versions of uPortal it has been tested with, a download for that
release version (war file), and to change the "download" link to instead
be a "source" link, and possibly some way to indicate which portlets
don't have a stable release version (by indicating "No formal release"
in the download column for example).

I know that these columns may be empty in the beginning for many
portlets, but I think that this would really help new users of uPortal
by not unintentionally misleading them into believing that there are a
lot more tested/working/formally released portlets available for the
uPortal than there actually are.

Thanks,
Gary

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[Jennifer Bourey-2]

Gary,

That page and the portlet wiki space are indeed both in the process of being re-organized and cleaned up.  I've archived much of the clearly stale content in the wiki and started to update some of our general portlet documentation, and we're in the midst of efforts to update the static page as well.

As the incubation committee starts to approve portlets projects, we'll update the main page to reflect a new categorization of portlets - likely along the lines of adopted, in incubation, and community.  Since one of the requirements for acceptance into incubation is having produced a real release, categorizing projects by incubation status should help to indicate which projects have supported releases. 

We're also working on updating our wiki page template for portlet projects to be more user-friendly and more prominently feature information of interest to new adopters.  Additionally, I'd like to update the static portlet page to potentially provide thumbnails/screenshots of the listed portlets. 

As more adopters move to including portlets via maven overlays, we may also want to provide the maven groupid/artifactid/version information of the portlet.  Perhaps we could offer the maven information, a link to the artifact itself in the maven repository, and a link to the source code in svn.

- Jen

On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 9:49 AM, Gary Weaver <[hidden email]> wrote:

There are a number of other portlets listed on this new page that are noted as "JASIG hosted" but all that means is that JASIG is hosting them, not necessarily that they are working or that there is a release version of it compatible with the current version of uPortal (or any version of uPortal):
http://www.jasig.org/portlets/

I would like to make the suggestion that there be some indication on that page what the current stable release version of the portlet is, what versions of uPortal it has been tested with, a download for that release version (war file), and to change the "download" link to instead be a "source" link, and possibly some way to indicate which portlets don't have a stable release version (by indicating "No formal release" in the download column for example).

I know that these columns may be empty in the beginning for many portlets, but I think that this would really help new users of uPortal by not unintentionally misleading them into believing that there are a lot more tested/working/formally released portlets available for the uPortal than there actually are.

Thanks,
Gary

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