Proposal Atlas: updated

[Dave Johnson <da...@rollerweblogger.org>]

I updated the front page proposal, you can find it here:
http://rollerweblogger.org/wiki/Wiki.jsp?page=Proposal_Atlas

I made changes to ensure that we're hitting as many of the bullets  
from the JIRA issues as possible, to address Allen's comments and to  
fill in some missing pieces.

Here's a summary of the changes:
     * New outline at the start of the design section
     * New runtime property for setting front-page blog
     * Mechanism for assigning page models to blogs
     * First weblog created is front page blog
     * getCommentedWeblogs() method, with sinceDays parameter
     * getCommentedWeblogEntries() method, with sinceDays parameter
     * sinceDays arguement to getHotBlogs() and to corresponding macro
     * sinceDays arguement to getRankedBlogs() and to corresponding  
macro

Please review and comment. Note that there are still a couple of  
missing pieces, mostly regarding URLs, that I'll clear up as the new  
URL proposal stabilizes.

- Dave

Re: Proposal Atlas: updated

[Allen Gilliland <al...@sun.com>]

Cool.  I think this proposal is looking really good.  Here's a few more 
comments/questions ...

1. for a weblog at the root of the site, are we thinking we only want to 
allow for the homepage to work like that?  or all weblog links to work 
basically without a <handle>?

2. extending the available feeds for a weblog is tricky, we should talk 
about this one more.  i'll start a separate thread.

3. nit pick, but can we use "WeblogPageModel" for the page model given 
to standard weblogs, instead of just "PageModel".

4. page model interfaces.  i don't think that we actually need to use 
interfaces for each of the page models.  we probably don't plan on 
having various implementations of the same page model, so i think it's 
fine if the page models are just objects.

5. the process of adding the main page templates to the first blog could 
be strange.  what if the user is only ever intending to run 1 blog on 
their installation?  in that case we probably would want to give them 
the option of a standard theme rather than the main page templates? 
maybe the main page templates should be a theme which can be chosen when 
the blog is created just like we do now?  maybe it only shows up in the 
themes list if the person creating the blog is an admin?  that way 
normal users only see the standard list of themes that we have now, but 
admins have access to themes for special blogs?

-- Allen


Dave Johnson wrote:
> I updated the front page proposal, you can find it here:
> http://rollerweblogger.org/wiki/Wiki.jsp?page=Proposal_Atlas
> 
> I made changes to ensure that we're hitting as many of the bullets from 
> the JIRA issues as possible, to address Allen's comments and to fill in 
> some missing pieces.
> 
> Here's a summary of the changes:
>     * New outline at the start of the design section
>     * New runtime property for setting front-page blog
>     * Mechanism for assigning page models to blogs
>     * First weblog created is front page blog
>     * getCommentedWeblogs() method, with sinceDays parameter
>     * getCommentedWeblogEntries() method, with sinceDays parameter
>     * sinceDays arguement to getHotBlogs() and to corresponding macro
>     * sinceDays arguement to getRankedBlogs() and to corresponding macro
> 
> Please review and comment. Note that there are still a couple of missing 
> pieces, mostly regarding URLs, that I'll clear up as the new URL 
> proposal stabilizes.
> 
> - Dave
> 
>