December 2012 uPortal Community Call Agenda: * Release Strategy * Git * Statistics * uPortal 4.1 Roadmap * Portlet Updates * uPortal 4.x Documentation * Q&A

1. Community Call
Sharing Ideas
Enabling Collaboration
Building Community
December 14, 2011

2. Agenda
• Release Strategy
• Git
• Statistics
• uPortal 4.1 Roadmap
• Portlet Updates
• uPortal 4.x Documentation
• Q&A

3. Release Strategy

4. 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

5. Git

6. 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

7. Statistics

8. 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

9. 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

10. Reporting Tools
• Build re-usable visual reporting tools
• Use existing graphing SQL query portlet for
inspiration
• Use Google Visualization API to produce graphs

11. uPortal 4.1 Roadmap

12. 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

13. Groups and Permissions
• Modernize codebase to
• Eliminate static method calls
• Improve ability to write unit tests

14. 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

15. Portlet Updates

16. New uMobile Portlets
• New jQM-based views for
• Dining
• Athletics
• Shared data-gathering strategies
• Custom XSD for representing data
• Re-usable screen-scraper implementation

17. Athletics Portlet

18. Dining Menus Portlet

19. Tips and Emergency Alerts

20. 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)

21. Notifications Portlet

22. uPortal 4.x
Documentation

23. Content Writers
While 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

24. 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?

25. 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?

26. Contact Information

Email me directly
− Laura McCord
mccordl@southwestern.edu

Post on the mailing list
− uportal-user@lists.ja-sig.org

27. Questions and
Open Discussion

28. Feedback?
Suggestions?
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