Duncan, First, realize that timing in open source development tends to be a little different than timing in commercial software development. Most of us are volunteers that develop in our "spare" time.
Pluto 1.0.1 is based upon a portal that was developed internally at IBM and then donated to apache. As such, I can't really give you an idea of what it took. The first seed code to Pluto 1.1 was imported about a year ago (Oct, 2004) and I'm hopefull that an alpha release will go out before the end of the year (actually, before ApacheCon would be great, but I don't think we're going to make it). All that said, timing really depends on your intentions. Do you plan to develop your own portlet container or utilize an existing one (i.e. embedding pluto)? If you plan to develop your own container, will you meet the requirements of the associated servlet spec by leveraging an existing servlet container or will you implement your own. How much experience does your team have with the Portlet Specification? What is it about the existing open source portals that prevents you from using one of them . . .Etc. . . If you have more questions, please feel free to ping the list again, or contact me offline and I'd be happy to provide some assistance in your efforts. . .I do believe that the effort *can* be done by Easter 2006 if these conditions are right . . . . David On 11/30/05, Duncan Strang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi > > Would it be too off topic to ask roughly how much effort in terms of > developer days/weeks/month/years has gone into developing Pluto to date. > > I currently have Pluto 1.0.1 deployed and I'm using the portal driver to > learn about portlets/portals etc etc > > I realise that there is also effort going into Pluto 1.1 > > So some idea of the effort for 1.0.1 alone would do or if that's not > possible some idea of the effort overall to date. > If you are in a particularly good mood then some idea of the effort that > went into developing the Portal driver would be most helpful. > > Why am I asking, well someone said to me the other day we (meaning me) > are going to develop our own portal and it needs to be done by Easter > 2006 ... > > When I picked myself up off the floor I figured I needed to find out if > this was possible or whether I should start updating my CV :-) > > Cheers > Duncan > >
