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UNDER DEVELOPMENT...

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

We also need to change our downloads page (http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/ROLLER/Roller+Downloads) 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

Roller 4.1 development

Roller 4.1 development has been proceeding in the roller_4.1_dev branch. The

Apache Roller 4.0 RC9 available for testing

Roller 4.0 is a major new release that upgrades Roller to Jave SE 5, Struts 2, Velocity 1.5 and OpenJPA. This is will be the first release that does not require Hibernate or any other LGPL code to run. We released the first RC on August 11, 2007 (announcement here: http://tinyurl.com/22wq7y) and we've been testing RCs ever since. We're now up to RC9 and are hopeful that RC9 or RC10 will be the final.

Apache Roller 3.1 completed, 3.1.1 RC2 ready for testing

(no change here since August 2007)

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).

Community health

There are two very active committers at this time who are very busy with new development, which is good. But we've been having some problems getting new releases tested and voted out the door and getting some of our other tasks done (e.g. getting setup to use the mirrors properly) so we still need to work on community development and growth.

New contributors are appearing on the mailing list, submitting patches and detailed bug reports. Hopefully, some of these will show sustained interest and we'll see some committer nominations.

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).

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