Hi everyone, I want to introduce yet another subject of things we see definitely being needed in Roller for it to be more suited for internal corporate blogging.
- I have a patch ready (very simple) that allows the site administrator through roller.properties specify which URLs users can send trackbacks to. It'd be dump to send a trackback to an external blog because people won't be access that post because it's on the intranet. I've added a small check in the sendTrackback method in WeblogEntryAction so it displays a nice error message when the URL is not allowed. This should not affect anyone else. - Along the same lines as trackbacks, I need to check the pings we are currently sending to blo.gs or weblogs.com and make sure they are disabled or a mechanism similar like the ones for trackbacks is developed. - We disabled anonymous comments in the intranet. I will need to add this feature to Roller as well, of course like anything else, it should be optional. Wordpress implements this, so I don't think should raise any objections from the team. - We'll write a PagePlugin that rewrites URLs in entries to go through some global redirector (which we might add to Roller as well) so anchors in entry URLs are not leaked to the web. Again, if anyone wants to use Roller on the intranet, I think this is important. - AutoRegistration. In Blog Central I made it so that for any user that's authenticated by LDAP server if the UserManager did not find the user, I would just create a blog for them. Instead I might follow the Sun model to have a separate registration page where the password is not required because we have our own auth methods. I can't think of any others right now of the top of my head, but as they come I'll send them. Regards, Elias
