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Abstract

This is a proposal to make a Roller 4.0 release, a major new release to introduce some infrastructure improvements and upgrades that we've been wanting to make for a long time. This includes a new data-mappper back-end with a JPA implementation, Struts 2 support and a requirement for Java SE 5Major release to modernize infrastructure with Java 5, JPA and Struts 2. Also includes new theme management and easy-install features.

Requirements

Upgrade dependencies, switch to new back-end, improve blog customization and introduce other new features.

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• New JPA based backend follows same design as old Hibernate backend
• New Struts 2 UI architecture is summarize in Allen's Struts2 Migration guide
• See individual proposals for design information.

Proposals

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implementsed

• Proposal_ThemeEncapsulation - Better encapsulation and modularization for themes.
• Proposal Individual Templates By Action Support a way to define individual or separate template files for various weblog page actions
• Proposal_TemplateEditorEnhancements - Improvements to usability and functionality of Preferences->Templates pages
• Proposal _ThemeEncapsulation - Better encapsulation and modularization for themes.Stylesheet Overrides for Weblogs - a way to allow weblogs to do stylesheet customizations without having to customize their theme and hack the templates
• Proposal_FeedHistory - Add Atom-friendly feed-history (paging) support to our feeds.
• Proposal_SearchFeeds - Add support to generate feeds from search results.
• Proposal Account Activation via Email - Add support for registration via email (patch from Sedat Çiftçi)
  • Proposal
  Stylesheet Overrides for Weblogs - a way to allow weblogs to do stylesheet customizations without having to customize their theme and hack the templates
• Struts 2 migration - We have completely migrated to Struts2.
• New JPA based backend - OpenJPA backend is now the default, Hibernate still present until JPA is tested sufficiently

Accepted and under development

• Proposal Easy Install - Make the Roller installation process simple by requiring only a single simple property file for configuration and by automating creation and update of database tables required for Roller. Almost complete: auto-create and update work remains to be done.

Under consideration

• Possible Dependency Injection / boot-stapping proposal - Dave did a Guice proof-of-concept and is planning another one. This may turn into a proposal for 4.0.

Change list from JIRA

Completed

• • Easy Install - Making it really easy to install Roller, targets 4.0
  • Proposal Introduce DI with Guice - Use Guice to implement Dependency Injection (DI) in Roller to make the back-end more modular, flexible and testable
• ROL-1371 Bad links in site-wide comment links
• ROL-1365 Filter by Search String on the Entries page
• ROL-1360 Notify email value $cform.notify is always false
• ROL-1120 email.comment.commentApproved not found in ApplicationResources.properties
• ROL-1053 Missing resource for email.comment.commentApproved
• ROL-1359 a small bug about bookmarks
• ROL-940 Minor typos in ApplicationResources
• ROL-1380 Rename Atom Admin Publishing Protocol
• ROL-1368 Ease of weblog customization: Style selection by theme(s)
• ROL-1366 Ease of weblog customization: custom bio blurp & thumbnail entry
• ROL-1222 Improve theme support
• ROL-1310 Individual templates by action (feeds, tags, archive, etc.)
• ROL-1323 Remove 'Referrers' tab for sites that don't use this functionality
• ROL-1378 Upgrade to Apache Velocity 1.5
• ROL-1379 Upgrade to Apache XMLRPC 3.0
• ROL-1350 Refine trackback message..
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