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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 - Proposal_Roller_3.1_Release - 3.1 - Full support of weblog entry tagging along with some theme enhancements and other smallish features.
• Proposal_Roller_3.2_Release - Modular Roller and Planet server modulehttp://rollerweblogger.org/wiki/Edit.jsp?page=.

Development proposals

• 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=3.1 - 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

Proposals that have been implemented.

• 3.1 - Proposal_WeblogTags - Tag support contributed by IBM.
• 3.0 - 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.