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Since our last report in August, the Roller project has been making progress on two fronts: testing the Roller 4.0 release and moving ahead with 1 development and Roller 4.1 development.

Some post graduation work still TBD

Apache Roller graduated back in March and announced graduation and the Apache Roller 3.1 release on April 23, 2007. However, we've still got some work to do. We're still waiting for our JIRA instance to be setup (see https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-813^{Image Removed}).

We also need to change our downloads page (http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/ROLLER/Roller+Downloads^{Image Removed}) to make use of Apache Mirrors. We need volunteers to help with these tasks.

Thanks to Vadim Gritsenko we now have a statistics page for Roller

0 release candidate testing. And there are two areas where progress is needed: the Roller 3.1.1 release is stalled at RC6 and there is still some post graduation work to be done.

Roller Roller 4.1 development

Roller 4.1 development has been proceeding in the roller_4.1_dev branch. The proposal to externalize user management has been implemented, as has the proposal to add a Tag Data API so other apps can get Roller's tag cloud data.

Apache Roller 4.0 RC9 available for testing

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Apache Roller 3.1 completed, 3.1.1 RC2 ready for testing

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We shipped 3.1 on April 23, 2007. A number of significant problems (including an XSS bug) were found and fixed. We are now testing a fix release known as 3.1.1 RC2, made available August 12, 2007 (announcement here: http://tinyurl.com/34dq3l).

Some post graduation work still TBD

Apache Roller graduated back in March and announced graduation and the Apache Roller 3.1 release on April 23, 2007. However, we've still got some work to do. We're still waiting for our JIRA instance to be setup (see https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-813^{Image Added}).

Thanks to Vadim Gritsenko we now have a statistics page for Roller

Community health

Community of developers health is good. Developers and users are active on the mailing lists, reporting bugs, submitting patches and seeking support. We've been having some difficulties getting 4.0 out the door because committers don't always have time to test each new RC, but on the other hand we are going though the process, fixing bug and the end result will be more solid release.

Other community related news...

Dave Johnson will present on Roller and blogs as a web development platform at ApacheCon US (see also http://us.apachecon.com/us2007/program/talk/2023^{Image Removed}).Other community related news...

The US Government recently launched a blog called GovGab http://govgab.com. It's powered by five employees of the Office of Citizen Services and Communications and Apache Roller 3.1. The GovGab folks have been helping out with the (still ongoing) Roller 3.1.1 release by reporting bugs and suggesting fixes.

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