Rainbow Portal

Welcome to Rainbow, the OpenSource Implementation of MicroSoft's IBUYSPY Portal

Who's in charge?

Team Overview - Send information for updates to Chris Farrell - chrispfarrell (at) gmail.com

Overall Coordination:

  • Team Coordinators: Manu, Graz, John 
  • co-ordinate the organization:  Manu, Graz, John 
  • process new developer requests: Team Leads
  • manage new submissions to the market place:  Graz, John 
  • collect success stories:  Graz

Support Forums:

  • Team CoordinatorsKeith Wells 
  • contributors Chris Farrell chrispfarrell (at) gmail.com

Rainbowportal.net:

  • Team CoordinatorChris Farrell   chrispfarrell (at) gmail.com
  • contributors: Mark McFarlane, Manu, Graz, Jonathan  Minond, Yannick Smits

Core Application Development

  • Team CoordinatorsManu
  • Sub Teams
    • Current Release: Manu
    • v New Genesis: Manu, William Forney, Jonathan Minond
      • Rainbow version New Genesis is a significant rewrite of the Rainbow core.  It is currently under development and is aimed for beta release in the Q32005 time frame.
  • Installation Program: Manu
  • Data Access / Data Store:  Manu
  • Theme Management:  Jes,
  • Security:  Manu
  • Controls and navigation:  
  • Handlers (Errors and URLs):  Manu, Jes 
  • Search Engine Optimisation:
  • Documentation System: Jes
  • Certification test

Quality Assurance:

  • Team Coordinators: Keith Wells, Jonathan Minond
  • Usability 
  • Test Plan Development
  • Automated Testing
  • Module Testing:  BetaTeam
  • Install testing: 
  • This groups purpose is to make sure things are up to par when going into cvs.  Teams, volunteers and contributers pass their work on to this group for testing.  This team focuses on assuring that when something goes into CVS it meets at least certain standards of quality, usabilty and integration.

  • This group maintains a beta web site with a live implementation of a recent version of Rainbow.  The code on this site may be even newer than what is in CVS.  You can visit this site by following the link for the "QA Team" at the top left of this page.

Module Development <- this group develops Rainbow modules

  • Team Coordinators:  Keith Wells, Jonathan Minond
  • Custom modules developers:  Mike Stone, John Bowen, Chris Farrell, Rick Burdeniuk
  • Ecommerce / Bank gateways:  Thierry Lefebvre, Manu
  • Testing: RainbowBeta.com

Designers <- this group develops Rainbow themes

  • Team Coordinators: Open
  • Skins / Themes:   Jes, Anne
  • Layouts:   Jes, Anne 
  • Cross browser compatibility:  
  • Testing: 

Documentation <- click to see the doc team site

  • Team CoordinatorsChris Farrell   chrispfarrell (at) gmail.com
  • procedures and strategy:  Graz
  • install guide: 
  • admin guides: 
  • user guides (modules, ...): 
  • programmers guides: 
  • module writer tutorial: 
  • online demos (viewlets): Rick Burdeniuk

Globalization / Localization

  • Team Coordinators: Open
  • Globalis(z)ation:  Jeremy Esland

Content Translation

  • Team Coordinators:  Graz

Events

  • Team Coordinators:  Graz, Jan Kolasinski

Marketing

  • Team Coordinator:  Graz
  • rainbow.net portal:  Manu, Graz, Mark McFarlane, Chris Farrell, Ed Daniel, Jonathan Minond 
  • Success measurement: Graz
  • Certification procedures

Business Development 

  • Team Coordinators:  Graz, Ed Daniel
  • Italy: Graz
  • UK: Ed Daniel, John Mandia
  • USA:
    • California: Mark Skiba
  • Other regions: please contact team leads if you are interested in this role for your region

Legend:  (A) members are associate members, typically new to the project or infrequent contributors

 

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