I've been thinking about how to better use the planet features in
Roller and as part of that, I've put together a new layout for the
Roller project site, which is itself a Roller blog.
I think tighter Roller-Planet integration is the key to building
better project/community sites, so I want to show some of the cool
things you can do right now with Roller's integrated planet
aggregator. Eventually, I would like to allow every blog to be able
to define it's own set of aggregations and not limit planet
configuration to global admins. I'd also like to do away with the
main.do and planet.do Struts Actions / JSP page and replace the
Roller front page with a blog, so it can be configured at runtime
via the Roller UI. More about that later.
If you go to the Roller project blog, you still see the old layout:
http://rollerweblogger.org/page/project
To view the new layout, visit one of these pages:
http://rollerweblogger.org/page/project/about
http://rollerweblogger.org/page/project/news
http://rollerweblogger.org/page/project/planet
http://rollerweblogger.org/page/project/dashboard
The about page is a simple what is Roller page. The news page
displays the entries of the project blog. That's just routine Roller
blog stuff. The planet page is where things get interesting. It uses
the planet aggregator to display the most recent post from the Roller
project members (i.e. committers). The dashboard page uses the planet
features to display the most recent Roller wiki changes and the most
recent JIRA issues.
This is all done using a stock Roller 2.2 build, but with this
configuration setting:
velocity.pagemodel.classname=org.roller.presentation.velocity.planet.Pla
netPageModel
Anybody opposed to switching over to this new layout?
- Dave
