Contribution to Apache Roller
I am writing too late about this, but contributing to Apache Roller (Blogging Platform) was extremely an exciting and learning period for me. During this period I contributed and participated to Apache Roller Community with some patches and a responsive theme for Roller Blog.
Let me first give some insight about Apache Roller.
"Apache Roller is a full-featured, multi-user and group-blog server suitable for blog sites large and small. It runs as a Java web application that should be able to run on most any Java EE server and relational database.
I came across Apache Roller while searching for some blogging platform to integrate for a website. Initially, I started just integrating this blog with our website back-end software (Apache OFBiz). During this phase of getting into the Roller code base I worked on the building up theme for blog which matches the website. I started participating in the user/developer mailing list and started asking question in mailing list. Apache Roller Community is not that vast but have great experienced committers. Glen Mazza is one of the most active committer in Roller Community and he helped me a lot.
After completing Roller integration in the website, I started building a responsive theme using Bootstrap. As, the themes available in Roller did not have any modern theme using latest technologies. As soon as I completed my roller theme I contributed it to the community and is now mentioned in Roller Wiki. This was really a great achievement for me to contribute something new to the community. After that I started looking in the JIRA Issue tracker and starting commenting on the issues list and worked on 2-3 bugs and new improvement. During this period I learned and worked on some exciting technologies like velocity, Struts 2 and JPA.
At the end it was a great experience to contribute to Apache Roller Community and I wish I could contribute more but due to busy schedule, internal projects, Google Summer Of Code and Google Online Marketing Challenge preparations, I have to shift my focus.
In Future I will definitely contribute to Apache Organization’s Projects.
