On 07/08/2013 08:53 AM, Dave wrote:
Overall, I think these are very good ideas. Thanks for the proposals. More
comments below.
On Thu, Jul 4, 2013 at 9:18 PM, Glen Mazza <[email protected]> wrote:
Hi All, here are the next round of improvements I'd like us to consider
for Roller:
1.) Update Spring framework from 2.0.7 & 2.5.6 & 1.2 to the latest RELEASE
version (3.2.3.RELEASE apparently: http://mvnrepository.com/**
artifact/org.springframework<http://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.springframework>).
Hopefully we can standardize on one Spring version.
My only concern here is that we might break OpenID support, which relied on
one specific version of Spring Security if my memory serves me right.
That may indeed happen with a Spring upgrade, for which we'll have a
JIRA ticket to get OpenID either fixed or replace it with another
implementor of OpenID that can work with the Spring 3.0 series. But so
long as the JPA and UI portions still work, I think the Spring upgrade
should still occur. I can't see us going forward with the Spring 2.0.x,
it's harder to gain committers when they have to work with older tools
and it's too much of a warning sign for potential users evaluating the
software, as that series most likely isn't patched anymore. Also, we'll
need to run Spring 3.0.x for a few months anyway to catch all the
potential incompatibilities with Roller code, giving us time to look at
the Open ID situation.
4.) New version of ROME-Propono with the latest ROME dependencies (fixing
problem mentioned here: http://mail-archives.apache.**
org/mod_mbox/roller-dev/**201306.mbox/%3C51CF6CF4.**3050709%40gmail.com%3E<http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/roller-dev/201306.mbox/%3C51CF6CF4.3050709%40gmail.com%3E>).
This would just be a Maven POM change (I can test it out if Dave wouldn't
mind applying the patch to ROME so we can get a release out of it). As an
alternative, we can switch to Apache Abdera if-and-only-if we have no
longer a need for RSS in Roller (is Roller now Atom-only? 5.0.1 seems to
indicate that...) Switching from ROME to Abdera in Roller could end up
being a lot of work though, probably not worth it unless ROME is really
dormant.
Roller is not Atom only and supports RSS feeds for blogs and in the planet
aggregator, I would not like to lose those features and they cannot be
supported with Abdera. I'd be happy to try to push a fix into ROME and see
if we can get a release out.
- Dave
OK, lower priority, I'll take a look at this sometime.
Glen
