Here we capture our uPortal community roadmap as it emerges for a given year. This roadmap extends beyond the uPortal core project. It includes the many sponsored sub-projects, such as portlets, web components and other supporting code bases.
The purpose of capturing our roadmap is to align development efforts with features and changes desired by implementers.
These features and changes come from the uPortal mailing lists and other stakeholders. Another important source is the group of active committers.
Ultimately, we wish to fulfill the purpose of uPortal to deliver a highly-personalized experience of navigating the university. And, we wish to increase adoption of uPortal at other institutions.
Our informal process of curating what ends up on the roadmap centers around our mailing lists and a roadmap discussion held during the annual Open Apereo conference. These are usually brainstorming affairs. The threshold to be added to the roadmap is rather low; however, realizing a milestone requires commitment and effort from someone. Thus, the additional challenge for a propose roadmap milestone is finding someone willing and able to deliver it. The roadmap helps to align committers to desired features.
We can categorize milestones into the following categories.
These milestones relate to how uPortal is different than other portals and supersedes competing solutions.
Integration is critical to a portal to the point of having separate category. Integration includes connectivity to back-end services and also APIs.
This is the third category that captures changes that capture work that simply keeps uPortal current and relevant.
Some suggestions may not align with our current strategy or may not be included for other reasons. A dropped feature / change may have merit, but the community may not want to plan to work on it in the next year.
| Category | 2023 Q3 | 2023 Q4 | 2024 Q1 | 2024 Q2 | 2024 Q3 | 2024 Q4 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Differentiating | Modernize QuickStart | Migrate WCs to Lit | Convert Portlets to WCs | Refactor Admin Pages | ||
| Integration | Clean up APIs | Remove JAXB | ||||
| Parity | Portlets upgraded to Spring 5 | uPortal upgraded to Spring 5 | Java 17 | Update Gradle |
| Category | 2025 | 2026 | 2027 | 2028 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Differentiating | Revamp Rendering Pipeline | Modernize Rendered Pages | ||
| Integration | Clean up APIs | Modularize Core | ||
| Parity | Drop Portlet Support | Adopt Latest Java LTS | Replace Gradle |
- Security Patches
- Migrate / Maintain Docs