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Status

Proposal under development

Target Release

5.0

Original Authors

Dave Johnson

Abstract

Roller 5.0 is a major new release of Roller that includes new features for media blogging, OpenID support, more plugin points and support for distributed search.

Features to be included

Proposed new features

  • Proposal Media Blogging Support - better management of media file uploads, easier way to browse and blog photos.
  • Proposal Externalize User And Permissions Management - make it possible to externalize user and permissions management so that Roller can pull user profile and permissions information from a separate user management system.
  • Proposal OpenID Support - support three login options: 1) Roller accounts, 2) OpenID accounts or 3) allow both.
  • 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.
  • OAuth for AtomPub - support 2-legged OAuth authentication for AtomPub web services interface.
  • Upgrade all dependencies - upgrade to latest versions of OpenJPA, Struts, and other major dependencies.

Issues to be addressed

  • See JIRA roadmap for list of bug fixes to be included in this release

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