Roller Blog Platform Work
Part of the Simple Agility stack. Roller 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 Roller 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 local work is a Roller 6.2.0 fork on Java 25 at ~/source/roller, with three parallel feature worktrees — see Roller w3t Plugins.
Status and known-unknowns (documented honestly for agents)
- The fork tracks Roller 6.2.0 upstream; the feature work is the
w3tline. - The production deployment target is not yet documented in this wiki.
jakefear.comandwiki.jakefear.comare tracked in search-visibility but their serving stack is unconfirmed here — an agent asked to "deploy the blog" should confirm the target with the operator rather than assuming Roller serves those domains today. - Build follows standard upstream Roller practice (Maven); 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 Roller content authoring and SEO output — the same structured-data instincts applied to the wiki (JSON-LD per page type) applied to blog posts.