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

[Margaret Wagner]

Would you like me to put the Mercury obit in the upcoming Sakai Newsletter?


On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 10:14 PM, Mark J. Norton
<markjnorton at earthlink.net>wrote:

>  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)
>
>  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
>  _______________________________________________
> sakai-dev mailing list
> sakai-dev at collab.sakaiproject.org
> http://collab.sakaiproject.org/mailman/listinfo/sakai-dev
>
> TO UNSUBSCRIBE: send email to
> sakai-dev-unsubscribe at collab.sakaiproject.org with a subject of
> "unsubscribe"
>
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> sakai-dev mailing listsakai-dev at collab.sakaiproject.orghttp://collab.sakaiproject.org/mailman/listinfo/sakai-dev
>
> TO UNSUBSCRIBE: send email to sakai-dev-unsubscribe at collab.sakaiproject.org with a subject of "unsubscribe"
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> sakai-dev mailing list
> sakai-dev at collab.sakaiproject.org
> http://collab.sakaiproject.org/mailman/listinfo/sakai-dev
>
> TO UNSUBSCRIBE: send email to
> sakai-dev-unsubscribe at collab.sakaiproject.org with a subject of
> "unsubscribe"
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://collab.sakaiproject.org/pipermail/sakai-dev/attachments/20120627/94ca0840/attachment.html