I was looking over the incubator TODO list for Roller. * http://incubator.apache.org/projects/roller.html
In case they might be helpful, here are some notes. > LEGAL > * All code ASL'ed If you don't mind my committing some patches, I'm getting up to speed on the Roller architecture, and I could insert the license blurb in to the Java source files, as a part of a general code review. A related issue is author tags. The "best" practice is to omit them, but some projects have chosen to retain the author tags. For example, Struts removed them, but Velocity kept them. If the Roller committers decided to omit author tags, this would be a good time to remove them. I could do it while inserting the license text. > * No non ASL or ASL compatbile dependencies in the code base At ApacheCon David mentioned that someone might be working on the Hibernate issue. If that doesn't pan out, I could definately replace the data access layer using iBATIS or Cayenne. The JSPWiki plugin could also be distributed separately. Perhaps the JSPWiki team might be interested in a code donation? > * License grant complete Confirmed! From the official grant.txt record: David M. Johnson / Representing: self and members of the Roller Weblogger Project "Roller Weblogger (open source, Java, weblog server)" > * Check of project name for trademark issues We used to just check a free trademark search service, but the free part has disappeared. I posted another query to general@ about what to do now. > * Mailing lists are being archived This is complete. * http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/ * http://www.mail-archive.com/index.php?hunt=roller > * Bugzilla has been created. Did the team want to stay with JIRA instead? There's not a JIRA to JIRA import right now, but it's suppose to be pluggable. We're going to have this same problem with WebWork, so if you want to stay with JIRA, I might be able to help with the migration. > * Project website has been created If a quick Forrest portal site would be OK, I could set that up easy enough. That's what we are doing for iBATIS and MyFaces * http://ibatis.apache.org/ * http://myfaces.apache.org/ The key requirement is that the website points to other resources, even if they are elsewhere (like the JSPWiki instance). Of course, another way to go would be Maven, which is what we are doing with Struts now. * http://struts.apache.org/ HTH, Ted.
