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

[Jim Eng]

I know that great newspapers and wire services have obits pre-written for many prominent people. Bet tell me this, Chuck:  How long have you had this part of the mercury obit written?


On Jun 27, 2012, at 8:44 PM, Charles Severance wrote:

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> On Jun 27, 2012, at 3:45 PM, Aaron Zeckoski wrote:
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>> Unlike pluto, mercury (portal) was formed when the system (Sakai) coalesced so I think the analogy is apt.
>> :-)
>> -AZ
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> Mercury was named in homage to this Apache project:
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> http://portals.apache.org/pluto/
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> And if you look in your Sakai's Tomcat - the following is there:
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> 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
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> Since Pluto is what provides Sakai with its JSR-168 support.
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> These files:
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> ./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
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> Named after one of Pluto's moons:
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> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charon_(moon)
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> And if you look at this file:
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> https://source.sakaiproject.org/svn/portal/trunk/portal-impl/impl/src/java/org/sakaiproject/portal/charon/CharonPortal.java
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> And search for the string "varuna" you will find the comment:
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> 		// this is based on what varuna is currently putting out
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> Which was a short-lived portal idea that we code named Varuna:
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> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/20000_Varuna
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> Again code-naming Sakai portal efforts to show the love for the recently-demoted-object-formerly-known-as-planet named "Pluto".
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> 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.
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> 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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