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> However, I am a bit lost on whether some features exist yet, 
> I have seen them mentioned but not sure if they got anywhere.
> 
> 1) Podcast support -- ability to deal with enclosures and to 
> have the podcast-specific rss tags. Assuming this has not 
> been done, I am looking to see if the following are available:

Not there yet.  Podcasting can be done with Plone 2.5, though, via the
Plone4ArtistsAudio product.
http://www.plone4artists.org



> 2) More customizable "description" field -- I want to provide 
> a link to the podcast rss (currently NOT the rss of the 
> quills instance because of lack of podcast support) in the 
> description so that people can easily click to find the 
> "official" rss and more easily copy it into their podcatcher. 
>  Currently I have the rss address in text but since I cannot 
> highlight it or create a link many people overlook it and 
> thus don't subscribe properly.

The "description" field from Plone is plain-text only.  You'd have to
customize your copy of quills to add a richtext field at the beginning
of a blog.

Note to Quills-devs: I actually think it would be a great idea to have a
richtext field available at the top of the blog for stuff like this --
I'm increasingly of the belief that rich-text fields above (and maybe
below) templates that list stuff (like Quills) is a good design pattern,
because it adds tremendous design flexibility at virtually zero
complexity.  (See, for example, David Siedband's "RichTopic" product
http://plone.org/products/richtopic.)

> 3) Quills sidebar that is easier to edit -- To be able to 
> change the existing rss tags and auto-discoverable rss feeds 
> to be the offsite feeds rather than the quills default ones.  
> I know that tweaking can happen at the template level but 
> when running multiple feeds off one site I'm looking for 
> something easier if I can.

Not editable Through The Plone at the moment.  Sorry.
 


best,
jon