I know that Dave and I are trying to wrap up our Roller 3.0 proposals so
that work can official commence, so I wanted to get some discussions
started so that the proposals can be finalized.
This is a subtopic of the overall Atlas Proposal for a new front page
and is meant to discuss how we want to support the usage of a weblog at
the application root.
I see 2 ways in which this can happen ...
1. The weblog still exists in its normal location of "/<weblog>/*" and
only the application root is forwarded to the weblog root page. This
basically means that a single blog homepage acts as the site homepage
and that's all. All urls would still point to "/<weblog>/*".
2. Roller can somehow be configured to run in single blog mode so that
all weblog specific urls (/<weblog>/*) will work directly on the
application root. This means the user would simply be able to leave out
the <weblog> portion of the url and everything will work.
My opinion is that #1 is the easier solution for right now, but is
probably not the ultimate solution. #2 is far more complex and involves
the additional problem that if a user ran their site as described in #2
then it would be basically impossible to switch to multi-blog mode (the
current default) at some point in the future because their urls would break.
#1 seems like a reasonable approach to me, at least for the first pass.
-- Allen
