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The vision thing

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What with everyone talking about SnipSnap I'm wondering if we should strive to have the same features (me too, me too) or if there are avenues where we can strike some innovation. So far the Roadmap reads either like a list of "things Roller must have to be a real blogger tool" or a list of "things Roller must do because others have done them." Which do we want to be? [ Lance Lavandowska - Roller wins praise]

Those are good questions. If you are interested in using or working on Roller, I'd be interested in hearing your answers to the following questions:

1) What do you want Roller to be?

I'd like Roller to be a great weblogging system, website builder, an innovative communications tool, and a J2EE best-practices example app. Wiki features certainly fit into that sort of charter. But Roller's direction is going to be determined by what I and other contributors are motivated to do, which brings me to question #2:

2) What are you interested in working on?

Right now, I'm motivated to work on the newsfeed aggregator, to add a simple commenting system, and to add trackback-like referrer tracking. What about you?

3) What features would you like to see added to Roller?

The Roller roadmap is my answer to this question, but the roadmap is really more of an unprioritized wish-list. Help us build and prioritize the roadmap by letting us know what you wish for in Roller.



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