NOTE: this proposal has been withdrawn. Because of the extent of changes in the trunk, I propose that the next release from trunk be called Roller 5.0 and have a different feature line-up than the one in this proposal. - Dave

Abstract

Roller 4.1 is a follow on release for Roller 4.0 that adds features to make Roller more pluggable, customizable and programmable.

Requirements

• Externalizable User/Permissions Management
• Additional REST APIs: OpenSearch and Tag Stats data
• Turn Atom Publishing Protocol on by default, update documentation, and test (http and https)
• Proposal Simple Multidomain Support - Weblogs may optionally have a unique subdomain or a custom domain
• Proposal Configurable Domain Resolution - Optional Subdomain URLs using blog handles and/or full URLs in database
• And more TBD

Proposed features to be included

Development proposals

• 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 (DONE).
• 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) (DONE).
• Proposal OpenSearch - provide a search API for Roller by adding 1) an OpenSearch descriptor support and b) OpenSearch tags in our search feeds (DONE).

Issues to be addressed

• ROL-1274 - Move ACEGI keys to separate config file

Proposed Milestones

M1 - created Feb. 15, 2007, Subversion revision #614419

• Externalize User And Permissions Management
• Tag Data API
• OpenSearch

M2

• Subdomain/Multidomain support

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