[jira] [Closed] (ROL-1193) Improve blog<->blogger profiling

["Glen Mazza (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

     [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ROL-1193?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]

Glen Mazza closed ROL-1193.
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    Resolution: Not A Problem

I don't see any issue with (1) -- any SQL queries not needing the credentials can avoid querying for them; and (2) fails cost/benefit analysis -- biographies of people who together compose the blog's authors can already be constructed in many different ways, static text for example.
                
> Improve blog<->blogger profiling
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>                 Key: ROL-1193
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ROL-1193
>             Project: Roller
>          Issue Type: Task
>            Reporter: linda skrocki
>            Assignee: Roller Unassigned
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> There is currently a bit of inconvenience created by the association between users and weblogs in Roller.  The inconvenience comes on 2 fronts ...
> 1. The UserData object represents both a users public profile and their login/identity and credentials and in many ways that is not desireable.  It would be preferrable if users could keep public profile data separate from login credentials.
> 2. Because the relationship between weblogs and users is many-to-many it's hard to make use of user information in the context of a weblog.  There isn't really a problem in the typical case of single author weblogs, but since the system allows group blogs you can't make any assumptions and so extracting information about the authors of a weblog can be a bit tricky.
> Some thought should be put into finding ways for weblogs to have better access to information about their author(s) which can be used and displayed.
> One idea is to create the concept of a WeblogProfile which represents a set of public profile information for a weblog.  We can then try and use the WeblogProfile to provide access to one or more UserProfiles which represent the set of public profile information about a single author.  These objects would contain explict logic about how to deal with situations where the many-to-many relationship between weblogs and users is burdensome.
> In essence, the idea is to develop some means to capture a richer set of metadata about weblogs and users which can be used in all sorts of ways.

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