Forum OpenACS Development: Re: Preliminary vision statement open for discussion

4: Re: Preliminary vision statement open for discussion (response to 1)

Posted by Torben Brosten on 03/16/03 02:19 PM

I agree with Walter's thoughts/suggestion to first help re-work dotLRN into OpenACS 4.7.

This may not be practical for thesis work on PM, however. So, running the first two phases in parallel may work best.

5: Re: Preliminary vision statement open for discussion (response to 4)

Posted by Jeroen van Dongen on 03/16/03 03:23 PM

What exactly do you mean with 'rework dotLRN into openacs'?

Can I interprete that as 'taking the general bits out of dotLRN and put them into a package on their own'?

In that case I couldn't agree more. Question then becomes what bits should be taken out and how to be repackaged?

Logical things could be:
- the portal stuff (already a separate package)
- generalized version of 'community' (i.e. departements are communities, project-teams are communities, ...)
- ???

This is exactly my question - what functionality should go in the 'umbrella' packages and what will eventually be dotWRK.