Contact portlet

bwfrieds May 21, 2007 6:10 PM

My boss has directed me to write a few portlets. He wants to provide white pages to our portal users; query and update functions against ldap. I've been looking for an opportunity to contribute to the public community. I downloaded the address book portlet and I've skimmed the LGPL. I have been unable to contact Chris Mills at JBoss so maybe someone here can help me. Questions:

1. Is there a roadmap for this portlet?
2. Should I build on top of the Contact portlet and release it as LGPL? Or should I start from scratch?
3. If I extend the Contact portlet, do I resubmit the final version to the JBoss Portal Swap under my name and Chris Mills?

I really appreciate any help as I attempt my first open source project. Cheers!

-Benjamin

1. Re: Contact portlet

julien1 Jul 5, 2007 1:46 PM (in response to bwfrieds)

Hello,

I am the project lead of portal and I can tell you that if you modify the code and distribute it, you should contribute back the changes to us.

If you do so, I think we should put the contact portlet in the jboss portal SVN in our samples module as it is relatively small (a bigger portlet would have a separate project like blogs or forums).
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