Add post re MyUW uPortal fork #41
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| enhancements directly in upstream often felt like duplicated effort, since to | ||
| realize the improvement locally one also had to make it locally. | ||
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| A more modern adoption model would obsessively make these improvements in |
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"obsessively" sounds like a negatively loaded term, is that intended?
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| # Other fixes | ||
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| + Fix deleting permission grants via permissions management Portlet |
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Maybe rephrase? This could be ambiguous for folks that don't have in depth knowledge of portals permission system.
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| ## Hacked rendering pipeline | ||
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| MyUW configures the uPortal rendering pipeline to direct to |
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This is supported upstream uPortal-Project/uPortal#436, uPortal-Project/uPortal#708, uPortal-Project/uPortal#1050
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| MyUW has modified JSON APIs to expose data `uPortal-home` needs. | ||
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| + Expose more data about portlet publications, to power widgets. e.g. `renderOnWeb`,`mdIcon`, `widgetURL`, `widgetType`, `widgetConfig`, `widgetTemplate`, `widgetExternalMessageUrl`, `widgetExternalMesageTextObjectLocation`, `widgetExternalMessageLearnMoreUrlLocation`, in `LayoutPortlet`. See also idea to use portlet publishing parameters for this instead. |
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See also idea to use portlet publishing parameters for this instead.
| + Add `firstName`, `lastName` in the `SessionRESTController` response. Also, `originalUsername` when swapped. | ||
| + Add some error handling in `LayoutPortlet` to catch when `widgetConfig` is not valid JSON. | ||
| + Increase time-to-live of `marketplacePortletDefinitionCache` | ||
| + Filter marketplace entries to only those in `PUBLISHED` publication lifecycle state. (Arguably this should be more nuanced, reflecting the viewing user's permissions -- maybe you've got permission to see entries that are in states other than `PUBLISHED`). |
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Related to uPortal-Project/uPortal#1068
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| MyUW has modified DLM to simplify the user experience of adding content to one's homepage. | ||
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| + Default adding a new item to the first rather than last position in a container. |
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There was an effort to upstream this in uPortal-Project/uPortal#885 the PR stalled before it could be merged. 😞
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| title: MyUW uPortal fork: the good parts | |||
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I'm cautious about phrasing here.
The article is about features and optimization made by MyUW's portal, changes which I hope to see upstreamed or reconciled with Apereo uPortal.
This title could be misconstrued as advocating for forking Apereo uPortal, which I don't think is the article's goal.
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| MyUW uses a customized "Bucky" theme forked from Respondr. The purpose of this customized theme and associated skins is to make rendering a portlet maximized via uPortal look like rendering uPortal-home, so that users switch reasonably seamlessly between the two approaches depending on content. | ||
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| + Fewer regions. Simpler. Remove features MyUW isn't using. |
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uPortal 5 has changed a number of regions to portlets that can easily be removed. E.G. uPortal-Project/uPortal#1081
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| + Key-value store | ||
| + LTI Redirector | ||
| + Personalized Redirector |
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Do these services rely on a forked version of the portal?
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This patch has been automatically marked as stale because it has not had recent activity. It will be closed if no further activity occurs. Thank you for your contributions. |
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Still intend to circle back on this. |
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Add post describing MyUW's uPortal fork.