Blogging Roller: Just how bleeding edge should JRoller be?

Just how bleeding edge should JRoller be?

Lance has been working on improving Roller's plugin support. He also committed some fixes to Roller's RSS 0.91 support. I've also been working on refactoring and enhancing Rollers bookmark management. We been making changes, so now I have to decide what to deploy next to JRoller. Should I support JRoller through a nice safe 0.9.8 branch, or should JRoller stay in the main branch which is now considered to be 0.99-dev? The JavaLobby guys said they want to be on the bleeding edge of Roller development, so perhaps 0.99-dev is the way to go.

Dave Johnson in Roller • 🕒 12:55PM Nov 03, 2003

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We had several things that we needed fixed (better RSS support high among them), so I'd say bleeding edge, but only providing that it is relatively stable :) We're also poised to start some JRoller specific development with our volunteers, so hopefully we'll be able to contribute some of our more interesting stuff back to you guys.

Posted by Matthew Schmidt on November 03, 2003 at 11:50 PM EST #

[Trackback] I've implemented the ReadMore functionality as a Plugin for Roller. I haven't deployed the new Plugin stuff to Brainopolis yet, so you cannot see it in action. Here is an excerpt from my checkin: Finishing the ReadMorePlugin (this was harder...

Posted by Vanity Foul on November 04, 2003 at 01:33 AM EST #

I decided to create a ROLLER_098_BRANCH. I'll use that to support JRoller until Roller 0.9.9 is ready.

Posted by Dave Johnson on November 04, 2003 at 02:19 AM EST #

So ROLLER_098_BRANCH is the branch where the jrollers are going to update new features. Is that right ?

Posted by Anup on November 05, 2003 at 12:58 PM EST #

Anup, the ROLLER_098_BRANCH will be for small fixes that are needed before the next Roller release is ready. Some JRoller features will be JRoller specific and will never make it into Roller. Some JRoller features will be incorporated into the Roller core. These will be committed in the main branch (not ROLLER_098_BRANCH) for inclusion in the next Roller release.<p /> How will this work? I anticipate that the JRoller team will post patches to the Roller mailing list and then Roller committers will evaluate and commit them to Roller.

Posted by Dave Johnson on November 05, 2003 at 01:13 PM EST #