I'll take first stab. This is a very big proposal so I think that some of these things may be better off in their own proposals and with their own discussions, so we aren't trying to talk about too many things at once, but here goes ...
Some things I'm not sure about: 1. The proposal is centered very heavily around the idea to "Extend Roller's built-in 'planet' community aggregator" and while I would definitely like to see the planet stuff get more use I'm not sure that we should be assuming that people want to use the planet aggregator in their Roller install. In my opinion, the Planet Roller stuff is independent enough to warrant its own project separate from Roller. Right now we don't really have that because there is planet code scattered throughout the Roller core codebase. I think we should investigate the idea of managing the Planet stuff in a separate project that users can "add" to Roller via a few integration steps if desired. Basically, decoupling the Planet code. That being said, my main point is just that I don't think we should be designing the new front page assuming that most people want to use the planet stuff. I think the front page should not contain any idea about the planet stuff and can optionally be extended to include planet features. 2. Assuming we stick with jsps and tiles for the frontpage, I'm not convinced that the new jsp tags you suggested are the best way to go. Maybe I don't fully understand how things will work yet, but I would prefer simple jstl for those functions rather than custom tags. My problem with custom tags is that they are hard to extend/modify for users who want to do so. Pure jsp code with jstl is much easier to modify. Stuff that I really like: 1. The internal subscription idea. I'd like more details on how the engineering behind that would work, but I think it's a very cool idea. 2. The browsable directory of profiles and weblogs. Definitely something we should have. Other ideas: 1. The proposal doesn't include any mention about the idea that someone would want to configure a single blog as the front page. I believe there are a number of reasons to support this and I think it should be part of this design plan. 2. I think we should also consider the idea of managing the front page via velocity templates which *could* be edited via the admin UI. It may turn out that this isn't the best way to go, but it's worth considering. -- Allen On Wed, 2006-01-25 at 08:41, David M Johnson wrote: > I'm looking for feed back on Atlas, a new proposal for to extend > Roller's built-in "planet" community aggregator so that it can better > support the needs of large, diverse communities of bloggers. > > http://rollerweblogger.org/wiki/Wiki.jsp?page=Proposal_Atlas
