Posted by Steve Castledine and Ludwig Nastansky | July 31, 2009
A busy week at OpenNTF, heres a summary
of some of our activities:
New Projects
Elenchus
- XPage based Q&A application. Uses Voting and Karma points to build
up answer reputation.
Fugue
Icon collection - The Fugue
icon collection in an NTF for
your eases of use
Updated Projects
DXL
Magic - Tools and sample code
to export, import, document and maipulate DXL
Domain
Patrol - Gives you control of
all databases, templates, agents, scriptl ibraries and acl entries.
NotesToWeb
- Notes to Web Javascript Framework
Remember if you want to write a feature
on your project to publish here or request help from other developers then
email newsdesk@openntf.org.
Catalogs
We now have two catalogs at OpenNTF,
one is for Apache and the other is for GPL etc. There is then the project
management system, where all the development/activity takes place, which
will host both (but clearly marked and a filter will be possible for those
who have a preference). Once a milestone is reached on your project and
relevant procedures are actioned (more on those soon), then they will be
added to the relevant catalog/repository.
You cannot yet see actually see the
GPL
catalog from the navigation as
firstly its empty, but mainly we are just finishing the UI so you can access
them both from the same place with clear descriptions on what they are
both for.
The arrangement may seem a little strange
to some, and its never going to be perfect and I think everyone would say
one big catalog is by far the best way to do this. However it is felt to
be the best middle ground for community and corporate requests. I guess
an explanation here (because as software developers we know we can do filters),
is that if we wanted to put the catalog on cd, or allow replication directly
into your organisation, some places have a strict rule on GPL (others do
not). So we just have to be mindful that going forwards we do not exclude
anybody from enjoying the results of the site.
IdeaJam
Niklas posted about how we are now making
it possible for IdeaJam to be used not just for the OpenNTF site but for
your projects as well. Initially it will be a bit manual, using an email
to request a new space, no integration with the project management, but
in time will will improve this. Read
Niklas's post here.
Technical Committee
Between many tea breaks, the Technical
Committee is being kept busy. This week it has been cleaning up parts of
this site, starting to sort out the catalogs, planning for the project
management upgrade, going on fixing Safari issues, building
internal task tracking systems, setting up wikis, building forum directories,
opening up IdeaJam and a whole lot more.
Rob Novak - SNAPPS
The Steering Committee regrets not being
able furthermore to directly profit from Rob Novak's invaluable advice
and vision as a Steering Committee member. But we fully respect his personal
reasons to adjust the priorities of his workload. OpenNTF is happy to continue
drawing support from SNAPPS's membership as one of the founding members
of the rejuvenated OpenNTF Alliance. Everyone would like to place on record
gratitude to Rob for his help and guidance so far on OpenNTF. We look forward
to continuing our relationship with SNAPPS, as continued members, going
forwards in achieving our goals.
I guess this moment should not pass without
offering the same thanks to Bruce Elgort and Elguji whose similar work,
until recently, was also hugely appreciated by everyone and helped us take
this road to getting things in place.
New members
We are receiving applications for new
members (you
can do so here) and we shall shortly
be doing a promotion of OpenNTF membership, together with new Steering
Committee membership. First we need to tidy up our process and the member
application pages, as currently they are not great. A job for the next
week so more very soon.
And Finally...
The people engaged in the current transformation
of OpenNTF in OpenNTF's committees and working groups are grateful for
the attention and feedback the Lotus community pays to this evolutionary
transition process.
We try and listen to everyone and will
indeed learn many lessons along the way. We take our responsibility very
seriously to keep true to the community whilst paving a way into an exciting
new future of building high quality Lotus Notes and Domino software for
all environments. We look forward to continued collaboration with the highly
valued community, customers and partners.
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