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Graffito is a framework for content-based applications, especially in portlet environments. Graffito entered incubation on September 20, 2004. Top three items to resolve before graduation: Upgrade to the latest license header and copyright notice policy Create an incubating Graffito release Move the JCR mapping component to the Jackrabbit project Graffito activity has increased noticeably since the last report, especially due to interest from within the Jackrabbit community. New bug reports and patches are also being contributed. Jukka Zitting was voted in as a new mentor for the project. He will accompany Raphael Luta in that role. Given positive feedback from both communities, we are evaluating options for moving the JCR mapping component from Graffito into the Jackrabbit project. This would expose the component to a wider JCR developer community and a larger audience of potential users. There has been renewed discussion on producing incubating releases of the Graffito components Edgar Poce has been working on a related JCR-based wysiwyg portlet prototype, using the Graffito mailing list for design discussions, but the implementation approach differs from the Graffito portlet model, so at least for now the tool is not being integrated into Graffito
Graffito has nicely grown recently with activity encouraged by the final release of Jetspeed 2.0 and good progress made on the JCR support though Jackrabbit. We've just added a new committer : Alexandru Popescu and some existing Portals committers also actively contributing to the integration of Graffito with Portals.
* The main news in this quarter is that we have expanded the committer base beyond the original contributors with the addition of Oliver Kiessler and Sandro Boehme. * Both are busily working on building support for JCR (through Jackrabbit). * Work is also underway to use Graffito as a native CMS engine in Jetspeed 2.
1) Any legal, cross-project or personal issues that still need to be addressed? no 2) What has been done for incubation since the last report? * The most important work was made on the Jetspeed 2 integration & building some JSR-168 portlets. There is a content tree view, a document viewer and an admin browser portlet. Futhermore, we have integrate an HTML editor (Kupu). * Some work has been done for the security management (fine grain access control, permission management, JAAS support, ...). * We have started raising awareness and promoting the project on some other Apache and non-Apache lists in order build further the community. * New developers have started collaborating with the core team on Graffito work, especially JCR mapping tools. 3) Plans and expectations for the next period? * Implementing our JCR mapping framework with Jackrabbit. * XML editor integration. * A Graffito implementation for the Jetspeed 2 page manager. * Continue our work on the JSR-168 portlets (search & version management). * Start a site demo with a Jetspeed integration * We expect the committer base to expand during next period given the current developer participation on the dev mailing-lists. 4) Any recommendations for how incubation could run more smoothly for you? None so far.
1) Is the STATUS file up to date?
Yes
2) Any legal, cross-project or personal issues that still need to be
addressed?
* Software grant has been recieved by the ASF.
* All trademark issues with project name have been resolved.
* We have renamed the JCMS project as Graffito to avoid naming
confusion with Jalios JCMS, another Java based CMS system.
3) What has been done for incubation since the last report?
* We cleaned up repository, site, build process, site deployment
and publishing to help new users and developers jump into the
project.
* Christophe Lombart account has been created and karma granted
* ASF Infrastructure has been set up for Graffito
* We are working on the Jetspeed 2 integration & building JSR 168
portlets.
4) Plans and expectations for the next period?
* Add more info in the Graffito site
* WEBDAV integration
* More work on Jetspeed 2 integration, building portlets.
* Introduce Graffito to some important related projects:
Slide, JackRabbit, Jetspeed ... in order to grow the
development community
5) Any recommendations for how incubation could run more smoothly for
you?
None so far.