BlogEdToDo

This should be quite a dynamic page, to help us keep up to

Release 0.7

There are a few more things to do for the final BlogEd 0.7 release, or patches to be applied as soon as available

• Internationalisation:
  • Atsuhiko Yamanaka is internationalising the code in order to add Japanese
  • Add other languages: I can try French and perhaps German, though anyone who wants to contribute is welcome
• Update help and about pages.
• patches:
  • send patches to xml-rpc list
  • publish patches in a new patches directory
  • publish patches to Kafenio
• Atsuhiko Yamanaka mentions that there are problems with Kafenio and Japanese. There are some other problems with Kafenio too. It would be useful to work out what all these are and send them fixes, or find a better editor.
• Atom support for file publication is in, but add synchronisation too: this requires that a link construct to an archive be specified.
• security: add ssh communication in metaweblog api to server: this will require Roller to upgrade to the latest version of the apache xmlrpc library
• Support publishing to blogs on weblogs.java.net (which uses moveable type)
• Add permalinks from an entry, so that one can have a quick access to the web page when looking at an entry form BlogEd.
• Make preview go to the page in which the blog is located, not just the front page. This is important when one edits an old blog entry.
• support for Real Simple Discoverability (RSD)
• JAG reports that he had trouble publishing the character pi to the Roller.
• report and try to fix bug in kafenio in which < > brackets dissapear when shifting between the html and the wisiwig view
• change distribution of bloged so that all jars are separated (better for jnlp).
• add information and links about what licences each library is licenced under, especially the lgpl libraries
• ping blog search engines when a new entry is added eg: http://blo.gs/ping.php. Roller already does this, but this could be useful for file only site.
• pluggable editor architecture: allow different editors to be plugged into BlogEd.
• allow all network conections processes to be interrupted by the user (similar to the way one can cancel a GET on a normal browser)

Next releases:

Technical

• Move to Java 5
• use annotations for OWL-Java layer (possible with java 5)

Semantic Web Level

• Here I really need to add inferencing to the database. This would have made a lot of the programming a lot easier. In particular I need Combined (Inverse) Functional Property support.
• A tool to convert Annotated Java Interfaces into OWL files

User Interface

There is so much good stuff going on now at the UI level in Java with tools such as Matisse, that we should be able to go a lot further than we currently have. The good thing about release 0.7 is that it has been a good testing ground for the functionality needed. Need to organise some brain storming sessions to work on this.