Dave Johnson on open web technologies, social software and software development https://rollerweblogger.org/roller/feed/entries/atom 2026-04-07T09:28:33+00:00 Apache Roller https://rollerweblogger.org/roller/entry/rollarcus_9_to_2 Dave Johnson 2011-12-20T07:56:37+00:00 2013-08-18T15:39:29+00:00 <a href="https://github.com/snoopdave/rollarcus"> <img src="http://rollerweblogger.org/roller/mediaresource/b4a4fc0e-1e57-49cb-8c3d-893224f45694" alt="rollarcus github logo" align="right"> </a> <p>I made some progress in Rollarcus over the past couple of weekends, but not a lot. This makes me wonder how I ever found the &quot;nights and weekends&quot; to get Roller started in the first place, but that&#39;s a different topic.</p> <p>What I&#39;ve done so far in Rollarcus is to simplify things. While I was at Sun, we split Roller up into a number of parts: a weblogger part for blogging, a planet part for RSS/Atom aggregation, a core part for things common to both. After Sun, I worked to move Roller to Maven and further split things up into a total of 9 Maven modules including an assembly for building the release. Now, I think that all these modules are unnecessary -- we never shipped a Roller-Planet application and nobody wants to use parts of Roller -- and even if they did, the modules did not really help.</p> <p>Here&#39;s the before view: <a href="https://github.com/apache/roller">apache/roller</a></p> <p>Here&#39;s the after view: <a href="https://github.com/snoopdave/rollarcus">snoopdave/rollarcus</a></p> <p>So, in Rollerarcus, I&#39;ve merged all the modules. Except for one &quot;test utilities&quot; module, all Java code, JSPs and other code is now in one module and much easier to deal with. Next, I&#39;m going to attack the (what I consider to be) unnecessary dependencies and drastically reduce the number of jars in WEB-INF.</p> <p style="color:red;"><b>UPDATE</b>: The most significant of the changes that I made in Rollarcus have been applied by to Apache Roller and today (August 18, 2013) I removed the Rollarcus repository from Github.</p> https://rollerweblogger.org/roller/entry/fork_it_all Dave Johnson 2011-12-03T11:08:29+00:00 2013-08-18T15:39:16+00:00 <p>I just forked Roller on Github.</p> <p>The new project is called <a href="https://github.com/snoopdave/rollarcus">Rollarcus</a> and is mostly just an experiment and, I hope, a learning experience. I&#39;ve got some ideas about stripping Roller down to it&#39;s core and making it more fun and easy to develop and deploy. We&#39;ll see how far I get.</p> <img src="http://rollerweblogger.org/roller/mediaresource/f131bd82-22b3-41fa-967f-a87450aff1f7" alt="arcus rolling cloud"><br> <p>In case you don&#39;t already know, an <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arcus_cloud">arcus</a> cloud is a low, horizontal cloud formation.</p> <p style="color:red;"><b>UPDATE</b>: The most significant of the changes that I made in Rollarcus have been applied by to Apache Roller and today (August 18, 2013) I removed the Rollarcus repository from Github.</p>