Hi Angel, I am not one of the developers, so I am not working on code from trunk. I am always working on code from a particular packaged released. most of the time I like to make my additions to roller without touching the core code that way I can upgrade to newer versions, of roller without having to rewrite my code. Although I wish I had access to the svn trunk, because there are many refactoring I would do the roller codebase.
Once 4.0 is out and if I have enough time. I am going to develop some sort of plug-in based model for creating extensions to roller, and use it to build the enhancements I want. my roller site is located at www.sereneambition.com which I have setup for some friends. I don't work on my blog server full time, or even part time. I put in about 20 hours of work on it every few months. Some extensions for roller that I want. 1) Book extension, which allows users to create list of books that they recommend, and allows them to link books to amazon.com 2) Email to a friend link on a blog posts. 3) Newsletter subscription feature, to allow readers to subscribe to a newsletter published by a blogger. 4) Subscribe to blog posts via email, similar to what things like feedblitz allow you to do. 5) Aggregated tag cloud, which will display a tag cloud based on all the blogs in a common server. 6) JCaptcha on the discussions post to fight spam. 7) A wiki language editor, the current editors with HTML are fine if you are technical person. However, for users who don't know HTML a wiki language editor would be a great feature to have. 8) Survey extension, something to allow me bloggers to create a survey and display it on their web page. 9) A group publishing workflow for admins, which can exist in parallel to the current admin ui. The scenario is when you have some bloggers who are blogging about a common theme, each wants their own distinct blog and there is an editor which edits all published work before it goes on the public site. Anyway that is my wish list, if I ever create enough time I will implement these features. What is it that you want to do with the roller code base? Adib -----Original Message----- From: Angel Vera [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, November 04, 2007 5:16 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Trying to port into eclipse format Hi Adib, The thread provided me with some good insights. I was going down that route, but then run into some problem. I ended up just going through the build.xml files. I am in the mids of it, but as I am doing all this work, it got me thinking. "The new projects that I am creating are not structure compatible with the code in svn, thus am I going to have to do all of this every single time?" So I wanted to ask you how do you keep in sync? ----- Original Message ---- From: Adib Saikali <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected] Sent: Friday, November 2, 2007 12:30:08 AM Subject: RE: Trying to port into eclipse format Checkout the development list archive http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/roller-dev/200710.mbox/browser and look for the thread called "Debugging Roller in Eclipse" which covered the same topic, for roller 3.1, roller 4.0 is not that different. Cheers Adib -----Original Message----- From: Angel Vera [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2007 7:16 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Trying to port into eclipse format With the distributed code of roller 4.0 RC7.. but I can work with the svn code, if you can point me out to the repository. ----- Original Message ---- From: Adib Saikali <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected] Sent: Thursday, November 1, 2007 9:22:11 PM Subject: RE: Trying to port into eclipse format Hi Angel, Are you working with the code that checked out from svn? or the source from distirbution of roller? Adib -----Original Message----- From: Angel Vera [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2007 2:18 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Trying to port into eclipse format Hi Guys, I am trying to get jRoller to compile and run inside of eclipse/wtp. I found that project at some point had a .project and was developed inside or eclipse, but the setup is all screwed up so there is a lot of porting to do. Someone suggested that I contribute my changes, I certenly can but I need a little bit of help to get this porting done properly. My first attempt to get the code inside of eclipse, is failing. Probably because I am trying to do minimal changes to the old .project and .classpath, but things are so out of date that is to hard to get it to work. So I want to perhaps restart the work, but before I reset my enviroment can someone explain me how jRoller gets build (where is the ant.xml, where are the build scripts), I think that will be of great help.
