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Proposals should be named Proposal_ and use the Proposal Template
Active proposals
Proposals that are being actively worked on. Put your proposal here if you are actively seeking feedback.
Release proposals (i.e. proposed roadmap)
- Proposal: UI Makeover with Bootstrap - modernize and improve the Roller editor/admin UI
Implemented proposals
Proposals that have been implemented.
- Proposal HTML5 Mobile Template for Apache Roller - Mobile theme capability for Apache Roller
- Apache Roller 5.0 Release - major new Roller release, coming soon...
- Proposal Media Blogging Support - proposal to add media blogging support for Roller
- Proposal OpenID Support - proposal for adding OpenID support for Roller logins.
- Proposal Externalize User And Permissions Management - make it possible to externalize user and permissions management so that Roller can pull user profile and permssions information from a separate user management system.
- Proposal Tag Data API - add a simple web RESTful web services interface that returns statistic about tag usage in XML using Atom protocol categories format (XML).
- Proposal OpenSearch - provide a search API for Roller by adding 1) an OpenSearch descriptor support and b) OpenSearch tags in our search feeds.
- 4.0 - Proposal Roller 4.0 Release - Major release to modernize infrastructure with Java 5, JPA and Struts 2. Also includes new theme management and easy-install features.
- 3.1.1 - Proposal Roller 3.1.1 Release - Minor bug fix release.
- 3.1 -
- http://rollerweblogger.org/wiki/Edit.jsp?page=Proposal_Roller_3.0_Release - (July 2006) Major release that introduces a new URL structure and completely re-designed front page implemented as a weblog.
- http://rollerweblogger.org/wiki/Edit.jsp?page=Proposal_Roller_3.1_Release - 3.1 - Full support of weblog entry tagging along with some theme enhancements and other smallish features.
- http://rollerweblogger.org/wiki/Edit.jsp?page=Proposal_Roller_3.2_Release - Modular Roller and Planet server module.
Development proposals
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- 3.1 - Proposal_ClusteredTasksViaLocking - Improved support for running tasks in clustered environments.
- 3.1 - http://rollerweblogger.org/wiki/Edit.jsp?page=Proposal_WeblogTags - Tag support contributed by IBM but still under evaluation.
- http://rollerweblogger.org/wiki/Edit.jsp?page=Proposal_ThemeEncapsulation - Better encapsulation and modularization for themes.
- http://rollerweblogger.org/wiki/Edit.jsp?page=Proposal_ClusteredTasksViaLocking - Improved support for running tasks in clustered environments.
- http://rollerweblogger.org/wiki/Edit.jsp?page=Proposal_JDOBackend - Proposal to create new JDO and EJB3/JPA implementations of the Roller backend to replace the existing Hibernate backend. Proposal is under development by CraigRussell.
Implemented proposals
- 3.0 - Proposal_Roller_3.0_Release - (July 2006) Major release that introduces a new URL structure and completely re-designed front page implemented as a weblog.
- 3.0 - http://rollerweblogger.org/wiki/Edit.jsp?page= Proposal_Atlas - Make Roller's front page as easy to customize as a weblog. Make it easy to include aggregations and aggregated feeds. Add a weblog and user directory. Implementation is underway.
- 3.0 - http://rollerweblogger.org/wiki/Edit.jsp?page= Proposal_NewUrlStructure - Redesign Roller's url structure to provide a consolidated url space per weblog. Includes multi-language blogs support.
- 3.0 - http://rollerweblogger.org/wiki/Edit.jsp?page= Proposal_SupportMultiLanguageBloggers - Special support for those who blog in multiple languages. Allen's also working on this.
- 2.3 - http://rollerweblogger.org/wiki/Edit.jsp?page= Proposal_Roller_2.3_Release - Focusing on entry content, small improvements, backend refactoring and bug fixes. Release candidate in April, released June 2, 2006.
- 2.3 - ROL-872 - Support for both entry summary and content. Proposal_Entry_Content2.3 - http://rollerweblogger.org/wiki/Edit.jsp?page=Proposal_Entry_Content
- 2.3 - Proposal_BackendRefactorings
- 2.3 - http://rollerweblogger.org/wiki/Edit.jsp?page= Proposal_RemoveUnshippables - remove unshippable jars (LGPL and BCL) from Roller release files.
- 2.1 - http://rollerweblogger.org/wiki/Edit.jsp?page= Proposal_Roller_2.1_Release - Release in January 2006 focusing on spam management/prevention, performance improvements, and a authentication system based on Acegi. Points to other proposals.
- 2.1 - http://rollerweblogger.org/wiki/Edit.jsp?page= Proposal_CommentModeration - Allow bloggers to moderate comments before they are posted
- 2.1 - http://rollerweblogger.org/wiki/Edit.jsp?page=Referer-processing Thread RefererThread - Create a long-running thread for processing Referersreferrers.
- 2.1 - http://rollerweblogger.org/wiki/Edit.jsp?page= Proposal_SpamPrevention - ideas for comment, trackback and referrer spam prevention/management.
- 2.0 - http://rollerweblogger.org/wiki/Edit.jsp?page= Proposal_GroupBlogging - Allow Websites to have more than one User (and vice-versa)
- 2.0 - http://rollerweblogger.org/wiki/Edit.jsp?page= Proposal_AtomServerKit - Replacing Atom4J with a Rome based solution
- 1.2 - http://rollerweblogger.org/wiki/Edit.jsp?page= Proposal_ConfigurationConsolidation - New property/metadata-driven configuration system for Roller
- 1.2 - http://rollerweblogger.org/wiki/Edit.jsp?page= Proposal_PlanetRoller - Change Roller front page to a community aggregator
- 1.2 - http://rollerweblogger.org/wiki/Edit.jsp?page= Proposal_PermissionChecks - enable permissions checking in Roller business layer
- 1.2 - http://rollerweblogger.org/wiki/Edit.jsp?page= Proposal_ConfigurablePings - Support multiple configurable weblog update pings
- 1.1 - http://rollerweblogger.org/wiki/Edit.jsp?page= Proposal_Roller11 - Proposal for a Roller 1.1 release in March
- 0.9.9 - http://rollerweblogger.org/wiki/Edit.jsp?page=BookmarkFolderTree - support for bookmark folder hierarchy.
- 0.9.9 - http://rollerweblogger.org/wiki/Edit.jsp?page=PostgreSql - we should add PostgreSql to the install guide for Roller 0.9.9
Idling proposals
Proposals that are either incomplete or not actively seeking feedback.
- http://rollerweblogger.org/wiki/Edit.jsp?page=Proposal _Installer - Make Tomcat/MySQL installation really easy
- http://rollerweblogger.org/wiki/Edit.jsp?page=Proposal_WeblogEntryPlugin - New weblog entry metadata and plugin interface
- http://rollerweblogger.org/wiki/Edit.jsp?page=Better Weblog Categorization For Roller - Design for multiple categories
- http://rollerweblogger.org/wiki/Edit.jsp?page=showRecentEntries - show the list of the last x blog entries
- http://rollerweblogger.org/wiki/Edit.jsp?page=Proposal_ReleaseNumberingConvention - How releases should be numbered
- http://rollerweblogger.org/wiki/Edit.jsp?page=Proposal_TagBasedCategories - Categories based on tags (supporting both hierarchy and multiple categories).
- http://rollerweblogger.org/wiki/Edit.jsp?page=Proposal_ExternalAuthentication - Improved support for external authentication servers, such as LDAP.
- http://rollerweblogger.org/wiki/Edit.jsp?page=Proposal_VelocityToSpringMVC - Refactor Roller's (Velocity-based) weblog servlets to use a very simple Spring MVC architecture.
- http://rollerweblogger.org/wiki/Edit.jsp?page=Proposal_VelocityToSAF2 - Refactor Roller's (Velocity-based) weblog servlets to use Struts Action Framework 2.0 (aka WebWork 2.3).
- http://rollerweblogger.org/wiki/Edit.jsp?page=SAFvsSpringMVC - Comparison of SAF 2.0 and SpringMVC for refactoring the Blog UI (not really a proposal, but I thought a Pro/Con comparison of the two should be on separate Wiki page.)
Withdrawn proposals
- - Clusterable Search Via Solr - proposal to enable a clusterable search manager
- Modular Roller
- Planet server module.
- Proposal Maven 2 Support
- Proposal Atom Protocol Comment Support (4.1?) - Add support for comments to Roller's existing Atom protocol support.
Withdrawn proposals
- Proposal_Roller_3.2_Release
- Proposal Roller 4.1 Release - withdrawn proposal, superseded by Roller 5.0 proposal
- Main Weblog - Simple solution for multi-contributor blogging
- Proposal_Roller_2.2_Release - Release in early April 2006 focusing on small improvements and bug fixes.
- Proposal_AggressiveCaching - Cache parts of the Weblog page.