Release 4.1 Planning

[Sean Gilligan <se...@msgilligan.com>]

Hi Dave, et. al.

So, I started the 4.1 Release Proposal page 
<http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/ROLLER/Proposal+Roller+4.1+Release> 
on the wiki.  It is very minimal.  In fact, the only thing in there is 
the Proposal to Externalize User and Permissions Management and a minor 
patch that I submitted.  There are three other proposals that indicate 
they are slated for release 4.1, but Dave had said that the External 
Users work was code complete and sitting in subversion.  I don't know 
how far along the others are and if they are still slated for 4.1

I'd like to contribute to the 4.1 release, but I'd like to get an idea 
of what the current plan is for the release.  (I'm really hot for the 
external users capability.  I'm also considering working on subdomain 
URLs and/or improved Atom Publishing Protocol support.)

Any comments?

Sean

Re: Release 4.1 Planning

[Sean Gilligan <se...@msgilligan.com>]

I have a handful of things in mind, but finding the time to do them 
depends, in part, upon when I can rely on External User Authentication. 
   If there is a "beta" quality implementation of that available, I 
think I can justify the time (at my day job) to add a few more features. 
  I'm just trying to get a feel for where the project is at and which 
SVN branch I should be looking at when researching a few ideas.

If URLs like blogname.hostname.com can be easily added, I'm interested 
(but not yet committed to doing that.)  I'm also interested in pounding 
on and/or improving the Atom Publishing Protocol implementation.

On a related note, it seems that the project has not been following the 
guidelines in the RollerReleasePlan 
(http://rollerweblogger.org/wiki/Wiki.jsp?page=RollerReleasePlan)
For example releases are not happening monthly.  My suggestion is to 
change the Release Plan to match the style of development that has 
actually been occurring.  It seems that formal releases should happen 
less often, but perhaps milestone-style releases (eg. M1, M2) could be 
put out monthly.

I'm just trying to scope out the passing train and decide whether to 
jump on, and if so, when and where.

-- Sean

Dave wrote:
> On Jan 15, 2008 4:28 PM, Sean Gilligan <se...@msgilligan.com> wrote:
>> So, I started the 4.1 Release Proposal page
>> <http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/ROLLER/Proposal+Roller+4.1+Release>
>> on the wiki.  It is very minimal.  In fact, the only thing in there is
>> the Proposal to Externalize User and Permissions Management and a minor
>> patch that I submitted.  There are three other proposals that indicate
>> they are slated for release 4.1, but Dave had said that the External
>> Users work was code complete and sitting in subversion.  I don't know
>> how far along the others are and if they are still slated for 4.1
>>
>> I'd like to contribute to the 4.1 release, but I'd like to get an idea
>> of what the current plan is for the release.  (I'm really hot for the
>> external users capability.  I'm also considering working on subdomain
>> URLs and/or improved Atom Publishing Protocol support.)
> 
> Thanks. I updated the 4.1 proposal to list the other proposals and their status.
> 
> Right now, I don't have a pressing need to make a 4.1 release so I'm
> open to any ideas you might have -- what do you have in mind?
> 
> - Dave
> 
> 

Re: Release 4.1 Planning

[Dave <sn...@gmail.com>]

On Jan 15, 2008 4:28 PM, Sean Gilligan <se...@msgilligan.com> wrote:
> So, I started the 4.1 Release Proposal page
> <http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/ROLLER/Proposal+Roller+4.1+Release>
> on the wiki.  It is very minimal.  In fact, the only thing in there is
> the Proposal to Externalize User and Permissions Management and a minor
> patch that I submitted.  There are three other proposals that indicate
> they are slated for release 4.1, but Dave had said that the External
> Users work was code complete and sitting in subversion.  I don't know
> how far along the others are and if they are still slated for 4.1
>
> I'd like to contribute to the 4.1 release, but I'd like to get an idea
> of what the current plan is for the release.  (I'm really hot for the
> external users capability.  I'm also considering working on subdomain
> URLs and/or improved Atom Publishing Protocol support.)

Thanks. I updated the 4.1 proposal to list the other proposals and their status.

Right now, I don't have a pressing need to make a 4.1 release so I'm
open to any ideas you might have -- what do you have in mind?

- Dave