On Sat, Dec 12, 2015 at 12:07 AM, Alexander Wels <awels@redhat.com> wrote:
TL;DR
Don't extend the User Portal use the REST api to do what you need to do and
determine which SDK works the best for your needs.


I'd actually bring up a complete proposal first to the list - perhaps the use case is interesting and general, not only to a specific use case. 
The briefly described one sounds as such.
If so, it'll make much more sense to do the (initially harder) contribution of code to the user portal over the (maintenance forever) fork.
Y.