Thursday, December 15, 2005

Don't knock it.

"Right now, we do not require anything from the portal further than what the 2.1 series offers. This very well may change. But for the needs of our community, at this point in time we see no need to upgrade our version of uPortal."

- from the jasig-portal email list, 15 December 2005.

The velocity of persuit of revolutionary change should be balanced with the benefit of what already exists.

Or, in order for deployers to keep up with the upgrades, the upgrade path needs to be darn near painless. I'm learning that I've greatly under-valued the importance of a clear, compelling, automated, foolproof upgrade path in the uPortal project in the past. On the bright side, I'm learning.

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