[Building Sakai] Profile2

[Clay Fenlason]

It's among the Sakai 2 tools and capabilities the Product Council is
currently weighing for release readiness, with the aim of providing
enough guidance that developers can address issues (if any) in time
for 2.7 freeze dates. I need to avoid trying to prejudge that outcome,
but I expect there to be concrete things to say next week when the PC
agreed it will have completed an initial review.

I will also say - to everyone that has release aspirations - that one
clear way to make this easier would be for Profile2 to get into a mode
of putting out independent releases, including any POM-plumbing (as
Anthony calls it) to make good use of the maven plugin, and QA against
the latest 2.7-trunk snapshots Anthony has been cutting, along with
release documentation. None of that needs to wait, and would in fact
be a strong demonstration of Profile2's maturity, as well as making it
relatively easy for schools to deploy irrespective of formal release
decisions.

So my advice in a nutshell - don't worry about Sakai 2.7, worry about
Profile2 1.0 (or 1.5 or whatever) and rally community support to see
it tested and documented ... and then inclusion in Sakai 2.7 may in
turn fall out from that very quickly.

~Clay

On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 7:49 AM, Steve Swinsburg
<steve.swinsburg at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Adrian,
>
> I'm not 100% sure, there's some reviews going on around what features
> and improvements are slated for 2.7 - best run it past Clay (hows that
> for an handoff!).
>
> cheers,
> Steve
>
>
> On 23/10/2009, at 7:59 PM, Adrian Fish wrote:
>
>> Excellent. That sounds perfect. Do you reckon it'll get into 2.7 as
>> the default?
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Adrian.
>>
>> Steve Swinsburg wrote:
>>> G'Day Adrian,
>>>
>>> Thanks for the kind wishes :)
>>>
>>> I'm just about to pull in the legacy ProfileManager API's into
>>> Profile2, and rework it so it exposes the Profile2 picture,
>>> implementing the suite of privacy settings available as well. So,
>>> Profile2 will then be a full drop in replacement for the original
>>> Profile, and all other tools that look to the existing
>>> ProfileManager API's for information (ie Roster) will just work.
>>>
>>> Tracked in Jira at: http://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/PRFL-112
>>> and hope to have this work complete soon.
>>>
>>> cheers,
>>> Steve
>>>
>>>
>>> On 23/10/2009, at 1:47 AM, Adrian Fish wrote:
>>>
>>>> What is the status of Profile2? Is it going into 2.7?
>>>>
>>>> The reason I'm asking is that I don't want to implement special
>>>> logic to get the Profile2 picture. I'd like the Profile2 picture
>>>> to be the default, served up through the standard profile manager
>>>> api. That way existing tools will not need to be altered to get
>>>> the new picture from content hosting.
>>>>
>>>> A public congratulations on the babby, by the way Steve. Didn't
>>>> know you had it in yer ;)
>>>>
>>>> Cheers,
>>>>
>>>> Adrian.
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> ==================================
>>>>
>>>> Adrian Fish
>>>> Software Engineer
>>>> Centre for e-Science
>>>> Bowland Tower South C Floor
>>>> Lancaster University
>>>> Lancaster
>>>> LA1 4YW
>>>> email: a.fish at lancaster.ac.uk
>>>>
>>>> http://confluence.sakaiproject.org/display/YAFT/Yaft
>>>> http://confluence.sakaiproject.org/display/BLOG/Home
>>>> http://confluence.sakaiproject.org/display/AGORA/Home
>>>>
>>>> <a_fish.vcf>
>>>
>>>
>>
>> --
>> ==================================
>> Adrian Fish
>> Software Engineer
>> Centre for e-Science
>> Bowland Tower South C Floor
>> Lancaster University
>> Lancaster
>> LA1 4YW
>> email: a.fish at lancaster.ac.uk
>>
>> http://confluence.sakaiproject.org/display/YAFT/Yaft
>> http://confluence.sakaiproject.org/display/BLOG/Home
>> http://confluence.sakaiproject.org/display/AGORA/Home
>>
>> <a_fish.vcf>
>
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