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
Features already in trunk and ready for testing
- 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 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.
Proposals to be written
- Update all dependencies (especially OpenJPA)
Issues to be addressed
- See JIRA roadmap for list of bug fixes to be included in this release
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