Pressroom Blog Platform Work

Part of the Simple Agility stack. Pressroom is the stack's customer communication component — the blog/newsletter for proactive customer contact. When its optimization loop is built it follows SimpleAgilityFeedbackLoopPattern (that page carries a Pressroom sketch), it emits telemetry per SimpleAgilityTelemetryContract, and it consumes search visibility and engagement feeds from the observability plane rather than building pollers or event tables of its own (SimpleAgilityObservabilityPlane).

Apache Roller is the ASF's Java blog server (first created 2002). The product, named Roller until release 0.5.0 (2026-10-29, SA-14), is a fork of Apache Roller 6.1.5.0 on Java 25 at ~/source/pressroom (GitHub jakefearsd/pressroom; Java packages com.wikantik.pressroom). It began as three parallel feature worktrees (the w3t line, see Pressroom w3t Plugins); shortcodes, Leaflet maps and JSON-LD structured data are now described in the repository's docs/dev/content-features.md.

Status and known-unknowns (documented honestly for agents)

• The fork started from Apache Roller 6.1.5 (its own first commit moved the version to 6.2.0) and has since diverged: Spring Boot, Java 25, PostgreSQL only, Markdown-only authoring, an automation API and an MCP endpoint (PressroomHub).
• Production is docker1, serving blog.wikantik.com as a Docker Compose stack behind cloudflared since 2026-10-18 (HostDocker1, operator guide PressroomOnDocker, exhaustive reference docker_deployment.md in the repository). It was docker2 before that (HostDocker2).
• jakefear.com and wiki.jakefear.com are tracked in search-visibility but their serving stack is unconfirmed here, so an agent asked to "deploy the blog" should confirm the target with the operator rather than assuming Pressroom serves those domains.
• Build is Maven (mvn clean install; tests need Docker for PostgreSQL) and the dev server is ./pressroom dev; consult the repo's own docs for the current build/run instructions.

Why this work exists

The three w3t features (shortcodes, Leaflet maps, JSON-LD structured data) modernize Pressroom content authoring and SEO output — the same structured-data instincts applied to the wiki (JSON-LD per page type) applied to blog posts.

See Also

• Simple Agility Stack Hub
• Pressroom w3t Plugins
• Web Properties Hub

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Cluster Hub: Pressroom Hub (pressroom)