+1 for switching. Also I like the idea of replacing the front page with a blog - I can think of a couple sites I could use that on.
Matt On 4/5/06, David M Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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 > > > >
