december 2011 uportal community call

December 14, 2011

Community Call

Sharing IdeasEnabling CollaborationBuilding Community

Agenda

• Release Strategy

• Git

• Statistics

• uPortal 4.1 Roadmap

• Portlet Updates

• uPortal 4.x Documentation

• Q&A

Release Strategy

Updated Release Strategy

• Regularly scheduled monthly releases

• Beginning of every month

• Ensure more frequent bug-fix releases

• Have had two successful 4.0.x updates

Git

uPortal on Git

• Git Repository

• https://github.com/jasig/uportal

• Jasig Git Documentation

• https://wiki.jasig.org/display/UPC/Git+Workflow

• Discussion at Unconference about managing university customizations via Git

• Easy to stay in sync with trunk updates, contribute back fixes and features

Statistics

Current State

• Events currently recorded to stats database

• Database structure simplified as of 4.0.x

• Now easier to add new event types

• Next steps

• Integrate aggregation functionality

• Create reporting tools

Aggregation Strategy

• Each aggregator will produce a specific report

• Logins by day and group

• Most popular portlets by month

• Etc.

• Currently integrating code from the University of Wisconsin

Reporting Tools

• Build re-usable visual reporting tools

• Use existing graphing SQL query portlet for inspiration

• Use Google Visualization API to produce graphs

uPortal 4.1 Roadmap

Layout Refactoring

• New features

• Support multiple layouts per user

• Arbitrary levels of tab nesting

• Improve implementation

• Adopt Hibernate/JPA

• Drop current relational model

• https://wiki.jasig.org/display/JCON/uPortal+Layout+Management+-+Requirements

Groups and Permissions

• Modernize codebase to

• Eliminate static method calls

• Improve ability to write unit tests

Spring Security

• Annotation-based permissions already integrated into 4.0.x

• Replace custom uPortal authentication libraries with Spring Security for 4.1.x

• Maintain less custom code and fewer APIs

• More easily add authentication capabilities like OAuth

Portlet Updates

New uMobile Portlets

• New jQM-based views for

• Dining

• Athletics

• Shared data-gathering strategies

• Custom XSD for representing data

• Re-usable screen-scraper implementation

Athletics Portlet

Dining Menus Portlet

Tips and Emergency Alerts

Notifications

• Aggregates notifications from external campus data sources

• About

• New Jasig Incubating portlet

• Developed by University of Manchester

• https://wiki.jasig.org/display/PLT/Notifications+Portlet+(Manchester)

Notifications Portlet

uPortal 4.x Documentation

Content WritersWhile you go through your installation/configuration there

are ways you can volunteer:

Content Writers

Sugg ested Topics:

Maven Overlay uses

Mobile theming

Load Balancing

Troubleshooting tips

Other....Expertise in a topic? Please share

Proofreading Do all links work?

Are images/screenshots correct?

Are file paths in the content correct?

Do you have additional content that will enhance an existing topic?

Is the documentation still ACCURATE?

Does the documentation make too many assumptions?

Contribute Your Ideas Documentation Jira Tickets

https://issues.jasig.org/browse/UPD

Create a ticket for a topic/issue

Volunteer and take ownership of a topic/issue

Please keep us informed

What do you wish to see in the manual?

How do you feel about the progress being made to the new manual?

Contact Information Email me directly

Laura McCord

mccordl@southwestern.edu

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uportal-user@lists.ja-sig.org

Questions andOpen Discussion

The uPortal Steering Committeeuportal-steering-committee@lists.ja-sig.org

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