February 2010 Board Report
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Background
Apache Roller is a full-featured, Java-based weblogging package that
works well on Tomcat and MySQL, and is also known to run on other
servers and databases.
Status of the Roller codebase
We've been ready for a Roller 5.0 release since our last report, but
since then we decided to move the Roller build process over to Maven in
a whole-hog fashion, adopting the Maven directory structure, breaking up
into modules, late night rituals, etc. We hope that this will make it
easier for existing committers to maintain Roller and for new
contributors to understand, build and run the code.
At this point the Maven build works and mvn jetty:run-war will run
Roller but we're still working out kinks in the build and especially
under Windows. Once the build process is stable again, it is likely that
we'll start producing release candidates for Roller 5.0.
Status of Roller community
Since our last report, we nominated, voted in and setup a new PMC
member: Greg Huber.
May 2010 Board Report
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Apache Roller is a full-featured, Java-based weblogging package that
works well on Tomcat and MySQL, and is also known to run on other
servers and databases.
Since the last report the project has completed work on moving the
project to Maven 2, fixed remaining bugs, and has made an Apache Roller
5.0 Release Candidate (RC1) build available. This build is not a release
and we are making it available for testing
purposes only.
We also created a What's New page outlining the new features coming in 5.0:
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/ROLLER/What's+new+in+Roller+5.0
November 2010 Board Report
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Apache Roller is a full-featured, Java-based weblogging package that
works well on Tomcat and MySQL, and is also known to run on other
servers and databases.
We're currently working to release a major revision of Roller. Here's
what's coming in 5.0:
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/ROLLER/What's+new+in+Roller+5.0
Since the last report the project has made a second release candidate
available for Roller 5.0 ( http://s.apache.org/apacheroller50rc2).
Changes have been limited to bug fixes and small improvements. Recently
some testing has revealed that the way we include OpenJPA in Roller may
cause problems on some non-Tomcat app servers and we're discussing ways
to ensure that Roller can run on the widest possible set of app servers.
