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

[Mark J. Norton]

As soon as it was clear that Mercury was retrograde.

- Mark

On 6/27/2012 9:45 PM, Jim Eng wrote:
> 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:
>
>>
>>
>> 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) 
>> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charon_%28moon%29>
>>
>> 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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