Angel,

I added your Migrator code to the Roller Support project
(http://roller.dev.java.net), which is where we host plugins, add-ons
that are not included in the Apache Roller release.

I did some work to make the code build via a simple Ant script. I
setup a directory structure for it and added a build script which
packages it for distribution. Please check it out and make sure it
still works for you.

1) Checkout the code for Roller Support project
See the instructions here for checking out the code for the Roller
support project
   https://roller.dev.java.net/source/browse/roller/

2) Change dirs to the migrator directory
   cd roller_support/tools/migrator

3) Build the migrator
   ant build

4) Test it out. First, cd to dist/migrator edit the migrator script
and roller-custom.properties file and run.

I did not test, but I did take a look at the code and I did notice a
couple of things. First, you use the name JRoller but this code
doesn't really have anything to do with JRoller.com, it's for Roller.
That's not a big deal.

Second, I noticed some category names that look hard-coded, like
"Hobbies" and "Tech Talk" -- are those your categories or standard
ones from Blojsom?

Third, you did not include any copyright messages or license headers.
Would you like to release those code under the Apache license, just
like Roller itself? Would you like the code to be "Copyright 2007
Angel Vera"? I'll add the appropriate LICENSE and NOTICE files and
headers for that.

Fourth and final, how generic is this code? How hard would it be to
support migrations from other blog servers with this code base?

Once you check it out and we fix any problems I may have introduced,
I'll make the binaries available in the file download area of Roller
Support.

Thanks for the contribution!

- Dave



On Nov 13, 2007 6:57 AM, Angel Vera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Yeah.. I know, I know... I forgot to attached the code...:)
> http://www.larinaandangel.gunfus.com/blog-help/roller-migrator.jar
>
> Angel
>
>
>
> Dave <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Nov 8, 2007 10:50 PM, Angel Vera  wrote:
> > Now let's move on to other things, would you guys be
> > interested in such migration tool? Or should I just
> > host it on my webpage..?
>
> I would definitely like to take a look at the code, so if you're
> willing please post it (or a pointer to it) here.
>
> It might be a good candidate for the Roller Support project, which we
> use for add-ons that can be downloaded separately from Roller.
>
> - Dave
>
>

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