[Building Sakai] Why do we still have the "mercury" site in Sakai's trunk

[Charles Severance]

On Jun 27, 2012, at 3:45 PM, Aaron Zeckoski wrote:

> Unlike pluto, mercury (portal) was formed when the system (Sakai) coalesced so I think the analogy is apt.
> :-)
> -AZ

Mercury was named in homage to this Apache project:

http://portals.apache.org/pluto/

And if you look in your Sakai's Tomcat - the following is there:

shared/lib/pluto-container-1.1.7.jar
shared/lib/pluto-descriptor-api-1.1.7.jar
shared/lib/pluto-descriptor-impl-1.1.7.jar
shared/lib/pluto-taglib-1.1.7.jar

Since Pluto is what provides Sakai with its JSR-168 support.

These files:

./portal-impl/impl/src/java/org/sakaiproject/portal/charon/CharonPortal.java
./portal-impl/impl/src/java/org/sakaiproject/portal/charon/SkinnableCharonPortal.java
./portal-render-engine-impl/pack/src/test/org/sakaiproject/portal/charon/test/MockCharonPortal.java

Named after one of Pluto's moons:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charon_(moon)

And if you look at this file:

https://source.sakaiproject.org/svn/portal/trunk/portal-impl/impl/src/java/org/sakaiproject/portal/charon/CharonPortal.java

And search for the string "varuna" you will find the comment:

		// this is based on what varuna is currently putting out

Which was a short-lived portal idea that we code named Varuna:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/20000_Varuna

Again code-naming Sakai portal efforts to show the love for the recently-demoted-object-formerly-known-as-planet named "Pluto".

More modern portal code-named "neo" and "dos.equis" depart from the long tradition of ephemeral planetoid code names and devolve to mere mere pop-culture / meme references.

With all that said,  I like Steve's proposal https://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/SAK-22122 and feel that we should remove mercury.   Cruft like this can turn into security problems or develop bugs.

/Chuck
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