[OWASP-LEADERS] Copyright fun again

[David Raphael]

Well I suppose that I am a bit delinquent ;)

Many things have been happening with the portal progress.

The following things are committed in CVS:

Look and Feel (90% of the JSPs)
User Authentication / Management / Application Profiles (LDAP Based)
XML Based Content Mgmt (via XSLT / Caching mechanism) - This includes 
the Project Pages, and Document Pages etc...
Caching Framework (In memory and disk)
Authentication Filtering
Character Set Filtering ( Not based on Filters Project yet :(  )
News ( There is some major changes here that I will commit ASAP )
And some misc...

I was hoping to deliver the Portal by the 15th of February.  I honestly 
felt that was a realistic date...however, Ingo and I had some major 
discussion regarding the Data Model that has been used throughout 
VulnXML.  I made a major "redesign" decision regarding JavaBeans vs. 
Ingo's Envelope model.  This required that 85% of the Portals 
infrastructure code be rewritten.  But this will prove to be a major 
advantage regarding development speed for the upcoming releases of the 
portal!  I have been working nearly around the clock for the past 
couple of weeks hammering out details, and I have been incorporating 
important aspects of OCL into the Portal.

ETA:  I don't want to keep breaking promises.  I (and Ben) are working 
on it about 6-8 hours a day!  So we are really looking for this to be a 
killer Web-app.  We think it is already showing that right now.  I will 
be more than happy to send screenshots...I am sorry we don't have a 
test server up, but we are changing so rapidly that there is not much 
point.  This is my first major Open Source Development project...And I 
never quite knew how to anticipate development time.  I think that it 
is very interesting to see that you *really* can develop the best 
software, and there is not some accountant telling you *just finish*.

And for my closing remarks :

1.  I believe that OWASP is heading towards OSS greatness.  Based on my 
interaction with the people so far, I feel like we have the potential 
to stand next to projects like Jakarta!
2.  I have had a fabulous time creating the code and coordinating with 
the other developers on the Portal effort.


BTW:

Mark - Maybe it would be best if we left some kind of functioning demo 
running around the clock?  Sometimes us developers get a bit 
*insensitive* to the need for tangible stuff!!!  Not just CVS!  Let me 
know if I am on target there.


On Sunday, March 2, 2003, at 07:51  PM, Mark Curphey wrote:

> Hey man, any news on an ETA for the portal ?
>
>
> On Sat, 2003-03-01 at 08:26, David Raphael wrote:
>> Chalk me up for a vote!
>>
>> On Saturday, March 1, 2003, at 05:10  AM, Ingo Struck wrote:
>>
>>> Hi...
>>>
>>>>> What I'd like to see happen is that OWASP makes the original 
>>>>> codebase
>>>>> available, perhaps as a "deprecated" project. The features that 
>>>>> make
>>>>> WebSleuth interesting could be ported into a supported project
>>>>> (WebScarab or OpenProxy).  Then we can steer anyone interested in
>>>>> WebSleuth towards a supported OWASP project.  I'd steer away from 
>>>>> VB
>>>>> projects.
>>>>
>>>> Sounds quite sane. It's got my vote.
>>> That proposal gets my vote too.
>>>
>>> Kind regards
>>>
>>> Ingo
>>>
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