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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.