I've been doing some weekend and evening work on Roller 5.0 to get it
ready for release. Ganesh and Tanuja did great work on the new Media
Blogging features, but there were a couple of significant pieces
missing such as data migration and I18N. I had hoped to finish that
work during the summer, but life got in the way. Now I'm scrambling to
wrap things up. I'll be speaking at ApacheCon US 2009 in November on
the topic of What's New in Roller 5.0, so I'd really like to have a
5.0 release candidate ready by then.
Just as a reminder, here's what's currently on the 5.0 feature list:
Media Blogging Support
Externalizable User Management
OpenID Support
Tag Data API
OpenSearch
OAuth for AtomPub
see also -> http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/x/9aQB
Except for Media Blogging, all of those features are complete. My plan
is this. I'll do some more cleanup work on Media Blogging, which is
the major new feature in 5.0, then, I'll address the issues below:
ROL-1808 : Mention getRequestParamter() limitation in Template Guide
ROL-1760 : Scheduled tasks do not run on Oracle (or other DBs
with high precision timestamps)
ROL-1724 : Bug in trunk AuthoritiesPopulator.java
ROL-1304 : Set frontpage blog in Roller install page
see also -> http://bit.ly/46w2ky
Once I'm done with those, I'll cut an RC because those issues above
are the only issues marked to be fixed for 5.0.
I went through the issues and removed the fix-for 5.0 designation from
all issues that have no person assigned to fix them. If there are
other issues that you would like to have fixed in 5.0, or new
features, then you are welcome to submit patches, volunteer to fix
them and we can get them back on the list.
Any comments or concerns about this?
Thanks,
Dave
