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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