Upcoming Roller 5.0 / Questions about new features

[Christopher Blasnik <c....@ucs.at>]

Hello all,

I am currently working on an offer for a customer to implement Roller as 
their blogging solution.

However, since we are trying to cut down development costs (this being 
an initial project) we are trying to identify
where to save time / money with respect to the features that the 
customer requires and which of those might / will be
in the next Roller release.

So, as Dave Johnson correctly pointed out to me, I direct my questions 
to this mailing list:


1.) Asset management / media managent:

Will there be a feature to configure / use external asset management 
services such as Amazon S3, or any ftp server of one's choice?
I noticed a few gui updates concerning media files in the blog-entry 
comment pages, however, they only featured the ability to upload files 
to the roller db.

2.) Will you include social bookmarking by default?
i.e. add a template / component having social bookmarking links

3.) Word-blacklist
Atm this is a hard-coded file (for the default settings) which, if 
conditions apply, will prevent a comment from being shown.
- Will there be a feature to have the comment uploaded and obfuscate / 
grey-out words on the blacklist?
- Will the hardcoded sample file be moved into the roller db?

One question regarding the current implementation: If there's a 
blacklist configured for a blog, will it completely disregard the sample 
blacklist?

4.) Are there any plans to include simple templates for mobile devices, 
e.g. BlackBerries (I saw the post on the Iphone- google thing on Dave's 
blog, btw ;-) ?

5.) Will it be possible to make "replies" to comments? I.e. display 
comments in a hierarchical way?

6.) Are there any plans to include "personal messages" (i.e. any blog 
user can write a personal message to a blog owner --> all done via 
roller, no mail involved)?

7.) Plugins:
Will there be any plugins for ...
- ... rating a blog post
- ... displaying a blogroll / blog topics according to their ratings
- ... polls ?

8.) The IP ban list ist not part of the default roller.properties file 
(.. anymore, just checked the svn sources from today).
- Will there be a way to administer the banned IPs via the backend GUI?

Cheers & thanks for your time,

- Chris Blasnik

Re: Upcoming Roller 5.0 / Questions about new features

[David Johnson <sn...@gmail.com>]

At this point, I think it is likely that Roller 5.0 will include these  
features:

    http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/ROLLER/Apache+Roller+5.0+Release

No other work is planned, as far as I know. My plan is simply to  
finish the features we have now in Subversion, fix as many bugs as I  
can and try to get Roller 5.0 RC1 out by November. I cannot make any  
promises though.

If you would like to submit patches to implement any of the features  
that you want then we'd be glad to consider them.

- Dave



On Aug 10, 2009, at 4:06 AM, Christopher Blasnik wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> I am currently working on an offer for a customer to implement  
> Roller as their blogging solution.
>
> However, since we are trying to cut down development costs (this  
> being an initial project) we are trying to identify
> where to save time / money with respect to the features that the  
> customer requires and which of those might / will be
> in the next Roller release.
>
> So, as Dave Johnson correctly pointed out to me, I direct my  
> questions to this mailing list:
>
>
> 1.) Asset management / media managent:
>
> Will there be a feature to configure / use external asset management  
> services such as Amazon S3, or any ftp server of one's choice?
> I noticed a few gui updates concerning media files in the blog-entry  
> comment pages, however, they only featured the ability to upload  
> files to the roller db.
>
> 2.) Will you include social bookmarking by default?
> i.e. add a template / component having social bookmarking links
>
> 3.) Word-blacklist
> Atm this is a hard-coded file (for the default settings) which, if  
> conditions apply, will prevent a comment from being shown.
> - Will there be a feature to have the comment uploaded and  
> obfuscate / grey-out words on the blacklist?
> - Will the hardcoded sample file be moved into the roller db?
>
> One question regarding the current implementation: If there's a  
> blacklist configured for a blog, will it completely disregard the  
> sample blacklist?
>
> 4.) Are there any plans to include simple templates for mobile  
> devices, e.g. BlackBerries (I saw the post on the Iphone- google  
> thing on Dave's blog, btw ;-) ?
>
> 5.) Will it be possible to make "replies" to comments? I.e. display  
> comments in a hierarchical way?
>
> 6.) Are there any plans to include "personal messages" (i.e. any  
> blog user can write a personal message to a blog owner --> all done  
> via roller, no mail involved)?
>
> 7.) Plugins:
> Will there be any plugins for ...
> - ... rating a blog post
> - ... displaying a blogroll / blog topics according to their ratings
> - ... polls ?
>
> 8.) The IP ban list ist not part of the default roller.properties  
> file (.. anymore, just checked the svn sources from today).
> - Will there be a way to administer the banned IPs via the backend  
> GUI?
>
> Cheers & thanks for your time,
>
> - Chris Blasnik
>