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On Jul 7, 2005, at 10:14 AM, Dennis Fung wrote:
Dear Dave Johnson, Currently, the company that I'm working for is conducting a research on various blogging software available, and Roller is one of the top three that we have narrowed down to. If possible, can you please answer these questions to help us further in our research? Thanks. 1. Can posts be put in to a category? If so, can a post have multiple categories?
Yes. No.
2. Can the admin surpress/edit comments?
A blog owner can delete comments or mark them as spam so they are not displayed.
3. Can the admin view activity logs of users?
No. But a weblog entry audit log is in the works for Roller 2.0/group blogging.
4. Are multiple authors allowed per blog? If so, is there a maximum?
No, but we are working on this for Roller 2.0/group blogging. There will be no maximum.
5. What author permissions are available?
We are planning EDITOR, AUTHOR and LIMITED for Roller 2.0/group blogging.
6. Can blogs be archived? If so, how is it archived? (daily, weekly, monthly, yearly, etc.)
All blog entries are stored in a database.
7. Which version of RSS is supported?
RSS 2.0 is supported (there are also templates for 0.91 and 1.0)
8. Is ATOM supported?
We have preliminary support for the Atom format and protocol, but Atom cannot truly be "supported" until the Atom specs are complete.
9. Is multi-language or special characters supported?
Yes.
10. Is there any published API / Data Model for accessing content? If so, what are they?
MetaWeblog API Blogger API
11. Can Roller integrate custom authentication?
We use Servlet Authentication, which allows pluggability.
12. Can the admin ban users? If so, by what? (IP Address, User name, etc.)
An admin can disable a user -- they won't be able to login and their blog will not be displayed.
13. Do posts get a unique URL?
Yes.
14. Is there a search function? If so, can it be integrated with Verity or Lucene?
Yes, Lucene is built in. - Dave
Thanks, Dennis Fung
