So, for a while we used Apache Roller for the journal. Roller was something I’d used before (as a user, not an admin), and it could be integrated into our web SSO system, so it seemed like a good fit. Unfortunately, it didn’t work out so well. Roller is rather clunky to use, and has a few small bugs (mostly related to SSO) that made it somewhat unpleasant to use. Today, it decided not to allow a new user to log in, and wouldn’t provide any sort of useful error message besides Java stack traces. So, I decided it was time for a change.

The Toolserver journal is now running on WordPress. WordPress is much nicer to use, looks nicer for users, and has a large community of users. It was also very easy to set up, and allowed us to import the old posts from Roller. The only downside is the lack of an up-to-date LDAP integration plugin. However, I don’t think that should be too hard to write…

PS: In case Planet gets confused by the change and re-displays all our old posts–sorry!

Welcome to the new Toolserver blog. As well as improving our Web 2.0 compliance, the Toolserver blog will contains fascinating posts about Toolserver internals, that don’t make it onto the mailing list.