February 2011 Board Report
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DRAFT - not yet submitted
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 third release candidate
available for Roller 5.0 ( http://s.apache.org/roller5rc3). This new
release candidate includes fixes to Roller to allow it to run on the
newest Java EE 6 servers including Glassfish 3, JBoss AS 6 and WAS 8
(beta) in addition to Tomcat.
Roller 5 has been a very long time coming, but I think we are very close
to having a final RC.
We also added some new documentation for building and running Roller on
Eclipse w/Jetty, and a number of new contributors have appeared on the
list and contributed additional documentation for running on Roller
w/Tomcat via Maven and for IDEA IntelliJ. We also got some early
interest in the GSOC program for Roller.
May 2011 Board Report:
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Not yet approved. Submitted to board May 14, 2011.
Status
The Roller community is still rather small and quiet, but we have made
some great progress recently in community and development and we have
good news to report.
Community: new commiter and GSOC project
Roller has a new committer. Shelan Perera has been helping out on the
mailing lists, submitting fixes and won a Google Summer of Code project
to add mobile blogging features to Roller. He was nominated and voted in
on May 5, 2011.
http://socghop.appspot.com/gsoc/proposal/review/google/gsoc2011/shelan/1
In other news, Oracle has decided to migrate all blogs.oracle.com,
previously running on Movable-Type, and blogs.sun.com to Apache Roller
4.0; a very nice endorsement of Roller.
http://blogs.oracle.com/otn/entry/the_blogs_rolling_on_with
Releases: Roller 5.0
The Roller project has just made its first major release in over two
years. Roller 5.0, released on May 8 2011, includes work contributed by
student contributors from Google Summer of Code, students from San Jose
State U, Sun Microsystems and the usual cast of Roller committing
characters. The major new features are better file uploads and
management, OpenID and OAuth support. All dependencies have been
upgraded to their latest versions (as of January 2011).
http://s.apache.org/roller5-vote-results
http://s.apache.org/roller5-announcement
November 2011 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.
Issues
No board issues at this time.
Releases
The latest release of Apache Roller is v5.0, which was released
on May 8, 2011.
Community
Since our last report, there have been some bug reports about and fixes
made to the new Roller mobile code developed during this year's Google
Summer of Code.
Apart from that, the Roller community continues to be rather quiet
with low traffic that mostly concerns technical support and installation
issues. No new committers or PMC changes to report.
