How are Pluto decisions to be made?

["Glenn R. Golden" <gg...@umich.edu>]

A recent patch posted to the developers list raises a question for me.  
I don't mean to actually comment on the merits of this particular 
patch.  That's because I'm not sure I have all the data or understand 
Pluto well enough at this point to do so.

The question is first, who are the committers of Pluto?  These are the 
people who need to make sure that Pluto stays on a development path 
that leads it to be the reference implementation of portlet that can be 
used by many different portal engines.  I think that the initial 
committers are the Jetspeed committers, with some additions.  I'm not 
sure of the exact list.

I think that something of this nature, changing the wrapping from many 
to one servlet, should be something that is carefully considered by all 
the folks who know how it will impact Pluto.  In fact, it seems like 
this should be something put to vote by the committers.

Further, since Pluto is rather young, and our experience with it is 
rather young, I highly value the guidance of the IBM folks who wrote it 
and who continue to be active in it's life.  I'm glad to see that 
Stefan has already made comment on this.

Again, I don't know if this is a good idea or not, and don't mean to 
vote against it in any way, nor am I discouraging ideas and 
contributions from anyone!  I just want to make sure that we tread 
carefully here in the early stages of Pluto's life and make sure we 
produce something that will be as "reference" and well used as Tomcat 
is for Servlets.

Thanks,

- Glenn

Glenn R. Golden  CHEF Architect
Jetspeed and (I think) Pluto Committer
Sr. System Research Programmer
School of Information + Media Union @ University of Michigan
ggolden@umich.edu


On Wednesday, October 15, 2003, at 08:21  PM, Andy Pruitt wrote:

> This patch routes portlet requests through one servlet per portlet app,
> instead of producing wrapped servlets for each portlet.  This is done 
> to
> minimize the modifications that must be done to a web.xml prior to
> deployment.

Re: How are Pluto decisions to be made?

[David Sean Taylor <da...@bluesunrise.com>]

On Thursday, October 16, 2003, at 05:29  AM, Glenn R. Golden wrote:

> A recent patch posted to the developers list raises a question for me. 
>  I don't mean to actually comment on the merits of this particular 
> patch.  That's because I'm not sure I have all the data or understand 
> Pluto well enough at this point to do so.
>
> The question is first, who are the committers of Pluto?

You are for one :-)
All Jetspeed committers are Pluto committers.

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