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## Description: Apache Roller is a full-featured, Java-based blog server that works well on Tomcat, Postgres and MySQL, and is known to run on other Java servers and relational databases. Latest release is 6.1.2 on 2023-08-03. ## Project Status: Current project status: [The project is mostly dormant with most activity around updating dependencies, making sure the code runs on the latest Java releases and security fixes. Issues for the board: None ## Membership Data: Apache Roller was founded 2007-02-20 (17 years ago) There are currently 12 committers and 7 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 3:2. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. Last addition was Michael Bien on 2021-05-24. - No new committers. Last addition was Yash Maheshwari on 2021-09-01. ## Project Activity: Roller 6.1.2 was released on August 3, 2023. The project is preparing for a Roller 6.1.3 release with dependency updates and some input valitation enhancements. ## Community Health: The Roller community is healthy enough to maintain Roller and make bug fix and security releases. We're always on the lookout for new contributors.
## Description: Apache Roller is a full-featured, Java-based blog server that works well on Tomcat, Postgres and MySQL, and is known to run on other Java servers and relational databases. Latest release is 6.1.2 on 2023-08-03. ## Project Status: The project is mostly dormant 😐 with most activity around updating dependencies, making sure the code runs on the latest Java releases and security fixes. ## Membership Data: Apache Roller was founded 2007-02-20 (16 years ago) There are currently 12 committers and 7 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 3:2. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. Last addition was Michael Bien on 2021-05-24. - No new committers. Last addition was Yash Maheshwari on 2021-09-01. ## Project Activity: Roller 6.1.2 was released on August 3, 2023. This past quarter has been fairly quiet, as usual. ## Community Health: The Roller community is healthy enough to maintain Roller and make bug fix and security releases. We're always on the lookout for new contributors.
## Description: Apache Roller is a full-featured, Java-based blog server that works well on Tomcat, Postgres and MySQL, and is known to run on other Java servers and relational databases. Latest release is 6.1.2 on 2023-08-03. ## Project Status: Current project status: Dormant. We are quietly maintaining, updating and sometimes improving Roller but at a very slow and intermittent pace. Issues for the board: No issues require board attention. ## Membership Data: Apache Roller was founded 2007-02-20 (16 years ago) There are currently 12 committers and 7 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 3:2. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. Last addition was Michael Bien on 2021-05-24. - No new committers. Last addition was Yash Maheshwari on 2021-09-01. ## Project Activity: Roller 6.1.2 was released on August 3, 2023, just a couple of days ago, in response to a vulnerability report. The project team went through the process to get a CVE, make a release to fix the problems and announce the vulerability through the proper channels. ## Community Health: The Roller community is healthy enough to maintain Roller and make bug fix and security releases. We're always on the lookout for new contributors.
## Description: Apache Roller is a full-featured, Java-based blog server that works well on Tomcat, Postgres and MySQL, and is known to run on other Java servers and relational databases. Latest release is 6.1.1 on 2022-04-30. ## Issues: No issues require the board's attention. ## Membership Data: Apache Roller was founded 2007-02-20 (16 years ago) There are currently 12 committers and 7 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 3:2. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. Last addition was Michael Bien on 2021-05-24. - No new committers. Last addition was Yash Maheshwari on 2021-09-01. ## Project Activity: Roller 6.1.1 was released on April 3, 2022. This past quarter has been quiet, but there has been some activity around dependency updates an minor improvements to the code-base. ## Community Health: The Roller community is healthy enough to maintain Roller and make bug fix and security releases. We're always on the lookout for new contributors.
## Description: Apache Roller is a full-featured, Java-based blog server that works well on Tomcat, Postgres and MySQL, and is known to run on other Java servers and relational databases. ## Issues: No issues require the board's attention. ## Membership Data: Apache Roller was founded 2007-02-20 (16 years ago) There are currently 12 committers and 7 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 3:2. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. Last addition was Michael Bien on 2021-05-24. - No new committers. Last addition was Yash Maheshwari on 2021-09-01. ## Project Activity: Roller 6.1.1 was released on April 3, 2022. This past quarter has been fairly quiet. There has been some recent activity around refactoring. ## Community Health: The Roller community is healthy enough to maintain Roller and make bug fix and security releases. We're always on the lookout for new contributors.
No report was submitted.
## Description: 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 issues require board attention at this time. ## Membership Data: Apache Roller was founded 2007-02-20 (16 years ago) There are currently 12 committers and 7 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 3:2. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. Last addition was Michael Bien on 2021-05-24. - No new committers. Last addition was Yash Maheshwari on 2021-09-01. ## Project Activity: This has been a very quiet quarter for Roller: no commits. ## Community Health: The community is still strong enough to make releases when necessary but is not actively adding features to Roller at this time.
No report was submitted.
## Description: The mission of Roller is the creation and maintenance of software related to Java blog server ## Issues: No issues require board attention. ## Membership Data: Apache Roller was founded 2007-02-20 (15 years ago) There are currently 12 committers and 7 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 3:2. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. Last addition was Michael Bien on 2021-05-24. - No new committers. Last addition was Yash Maheshwari on 2021-09-01. ## Project Activity: Apache Roller 6.1.1 was released 2022-04-30. Roller 6.1.1 is a minor bug fix and dependency update release that upgrades Spring, Struts, Lucene, Log4J, Guice and Bouncy Castle to the latest versions. ## Community Health: Community is small and somewhat quiet but is involved in maintenance, bug fixing and can make releases when necessary.
## Description: Apache Roller is a full-featured, Java-based blog server that works well on Tomcat, Postgres and MySQL, and is known to run on other Java servers and relational databases. Latest release is 6.1.1. ## Issues: We have no issues that require board attention at this time. ## Membership Data: Apache Roller was founded 2007-02-20 (15 years ago) There are currently 12 committers and 7 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 3:2. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. Last addition was Michael Bien on 2021-05-24. - No new committers. Last addition was Yash Maheshwari on 2021-09-01. ## Project Activity: Roller 6.1.1 was released on April 3, 2022. The Roller community is active but mostly involved in bug fixes and dependency updates these days. ## Community Health: The Roller community is healthy enough to maintain Roller and make bug fix and security releases. We're on the lookout for new contributors.
## Description: Apache Roller is a full-featured, Java-based blog server that works well on Tomcat and MySQL, and is known to run on other Java servers and relational databases. The ASF blog site at blogs.apache.org runs on Roller version 6.0.1. ## Issues: No issues require board attention. ## Membership Data: Apache Roller was founded 2007-02-20 (15 years ago) There are currently 12 committers and 7 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 3:2. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. Last addition was Michael Bien on 2021-05-24. - No new committers. Last addition was Yash Maheshwari on 2021-09-01. ## Project Activity: Most project activity has been around minor improvements, bug fixes and dependency updates. The most recent release is Roller 6.1.0, which was release in part due to address the recent Log4J vulnerability. ## Community Health: The community is healthy and well able to review, test and vote out new releases in a reasonable time-frame.
## Description: Apache Roller is a full-featured, Java-based blog server that works well on Tomcat and MySQL, and is known to run on other Java servers and relational databases. The ASF blog site at blogs.apache.org runs on Roller 6.0.1 Tomcat and MySQL. ## Issues: No issues require board attention. ## Membership Data: Apache Roller was founded 2007-02-20 (15 years ago) There are currently 12 committers and 7 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 3:2. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. Last addition was Michael Bien on 2021-05-24. - No new committers. Last addition was Yash Maheshwari on 2021-09-01. ## Project Activity: Our last release was May of 2020 and we have recently discussed a new release to get out some of the many small improvements we have made over the past year. ## Community Health: Roller is a fairly quiet community made up of unsalaried volunteers who have limited time to devote to the project, but we are making progress and are always on the lookout for new committers.
No report was submitted.
## Description: Apache Roller is a full-featured, Java-based blog server that works well on Tomcat and MySQL, and is known to run on other Java servers and relational databases. The ASF blog site at blogs.apache.org runs on Roller 6.0.0 Tomcat and MySQL. ## Issues: No issues need board attention. ## Membership Data: Apache Roller was founded 2007-02-20 (14 years ago) There are currently 11 committers and 7 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 3:2. Community changes, past quarter: - Michael Bien was added to the PMC on 2021-05-24 - No new committers. Last addition was Michael Bien on 2020-08-04. ## Project Activity: The Roller community has been working on small improvements to the Roller UI and depedency updates. On August 8, a vote was called on a new Roller 6.0.2 release with minor fixes. ## Community Health: The Roller community is health with contributions coming from outside contributors, committers and PMC members. It's been over a year since our last release, but we should have a new release in the next month.
## Description: Apache Roller is a full-featured, Java-based blog server that works well on Tomcat and MySQL, and is known to run on other Java servers and relational databases. The ASF blog site at blogs.apache.org runs on Roller 6.0.0 Tomcat and MySQL. ## Issues: No issues require board attention at this time. ## Membership Data: Apache Roller was founded 2007-02-21 (14 years ago) There are currently 11 committers and 6 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 2:1. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. Last addition was Swapnil Mane on 2020-05-24. - No new committers. Last addition was Michael Bien on 2020-08-04. ## Project Activity: The community worked on upgrades to maven dependencies, fixing integration tests and fixing issues identified by sonarqube. ## Community Health: The Roller community is small and relatively inactive but healthy and continuing to add new features, enhancements and bug fixes to Roller.
## Description: Apache Roller is a full-featured, Java-based blog server that works well on Tomcat and MySQL, and is known to run on other Java servers and relational databases. The ASF blog site at blogs.apache.org runs on Roller 6.0.0 Tomcat and MySQL. ## Issues: No issues require board attention at this time. ## Membership Data: Apache Roller was founded 2007-02-21 (14 years ago) There are currently 11 committers and 7 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 3:2. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. Last addition was Swapnil Mane on 2020-05-24. - No new committers. Last addition was Michael Bien on 2020-08-04. ## Project Activity: The community worked on upgrade to Jetty 10 maven plugin, fixing integration tests and fixing issues identified by sonarqube. ## Community Health: The Roller community is small and relatively inactive but healthy and continuing to add new features, enhancements and bug fixes to Roller.
## Description: Apache Roller is a full-featured, Java-based blog server that works well on Tomcat and MySQL, and is known to run on other Java servers and relational databases. The ASF blog site at blogs.apache.org runs on Roller 6.0.0 Tomcat and MySQL. ## Issues: No issues require board attention at this time. ## Membership Data: Apache Roller was founded 2007-02-21 (14 years ago) There are currently 11 committers and 7 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 3:2. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. Last addition was Swapnil Mane on 2020-05-24. - No new committers. Last addition was Michael Bien on 2020-08-04. ## Project Activity: Roller community worked on various upgrades to Spring, Velocity and Logger. ## Community Health: The Roller community is small and relatively inactive but healthy and continuing to add new features, enhancements and bug fixes to Roller.
## Description: Apache Roller is a full-featured, Java-based blog server that works well on Tomcat and MySQL, and is known to run on other Java servers and relational databases. The ASF blog site at blogs.apache.org runs on Roller 5.0.3 Tomcat and MySQL. ## Issues: No issues require board attention at this time. ## Membership Data: Apache Roller was founded 2007-02-20 (13 years ago) There are currently 11 committers and 7 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 3:2. Community changes, past quarter: - Swapnil Mane was added to the PMC on 2020-05-23 - Michael Bien was added as committer on 2020-08-04 ## Project Activity: Roller has been pretty quiet this quarter with only minor enhancements and bug fixes. One fix was to eliminate use of the term "blacklist" and replace it with the more descriptive terminology "banned words list". ## Community Health: Community is fairly quiet but healthy as you can see by the recent additions of a PMC member and a new committer.
## Description: Apache Roller is a full-featured, Java-based blog server that works well on Tomcat and MySQL, and is known to run on other Java servers and relational databases. Latest release is 6.0.1 and the ASF blog site at blogs.apache.org currently runs on Roller 6.0.0 Tomcat and MySQL. ## Issues: No issues that need board attention at this time. ## Membership Data: Apache Roller was founded 2007-02-20 (13 years ago) There are currently 10 committers and 6 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is 5:3. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. Last addition was Aditya Sharma on 2019-08-03. - No new committers. Last addition was Swapnil Mane on 2019-09-15. ## Project Activity: The Roller community released Roller 6.0.1 last week which includes bug fixes and a new user manual. With this release all Roller docs have been converted from OpenOffice format to AsciiDocs for easier maintenance and version control. ## Community Health: The Roller community is small and relatively inactive but healthy and continuing to add new features, enhancements and bug fixes to Roller.
## Description: Apache Roller is a full-featured, Java-based blog server that works well on Tomcat and MySQL, and is known to run on other Java servers and relational databases. The latest release is 6.0.0 and the ASF blog site at blogs.apache.org runs on Roller 5.2.4 Tomcat and MySQL. ## Issues: No issues require the attention of the board. ## Membership Data: Apache Roller was founded 2007-02-20 (13 years ago) There are currently 10 committers and 6 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is 5:3. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. Last addition was Aditya Sharma on 2019-08-03. - No new committers. Last addition was Swapnil Mane on 2019-09-15. ## Project Activity: - Roller 6 was released at the end of 2019 - A new logo is being designed by some new contributors - blogs.apache.org will be upgraded to Roller 6 soon ## Community Health: Overall community health is good and new contributors have been helping out with development, logo design and documentation.
## Description: Apache Roller is a full-featured, Java-based blog server that works well on Tomcat and MySQL, and is known to run on other Java servers and relational databases. The latest release is 5.2.4 and the ASF blog site at blogs.apache.org runs on Roller 5.2.4 Tomcat and MySQL. ## Issues: There are no issues requiring board attention. ## Membership Data: Apache Roller was founded 2007-02-21 (13 years ago) There are currently 10 committers and 6 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is 5:3. Community changes, past quarter: - Aditya Sharma was added to the PMC on 2019-08-04 - Swapnil Mane was added as committer on 2019-09-15 ## Project Activity: The Roller community worked on some UI/UX enhancements for future release 6.0. In addition to it, there were some JS library upgrades for release 5.2.x. We plan to release it soon. The community also worked on migrating docs from ODT to Ascii Doc format. The plan is to migrate most of the documents for easy maintainability. We plan to have 2 releases along with a new Roller logo in the next quarter. ## Community Health: Overall community health is good. We have recently defined a Contributors onboarding process to attract new contributors, and are seeing a steady entry of new people with contributions, both programming and documentation-wise. Here are some stats that back that up: - 33% increase in mailing list traffic - No change in issues opened in JIRA - 14% decrease in issues closed in JIRA - 18% decrease in commits in the past quarter - 14% increase in code contributors - 137% increase in PRs opened on GitHub - 133% increase in PRs closed on GitHub
## Description: Apache Roller is a full-featured, Java-based blog server that works well on Tomcat and MySQL, and is known to run on other Java servers and relational databases. Latest release is 5.2.4 and the ASF blog site at blogs.apache.org runs on Roller 5.2.4 Tomcat and MySQL. ## Issues: There are no issues requiring board attention. ## Membership Data: Apache Roller was founded 2007-02-20 (12 years ago) There are currently 9 committers and 6 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is 3:2. Community changes, past quarter: - Aditya Sharma was added to the PMC on 2019-08-03 - Aditya Sharma was added as committer on 2019-05-19 ## Project Activity: The Roller community fixed a security vulnerability, fixed a series of bugs and made a 5.2.3 release on July 12. There was a regression that broke Roller's rich text editor, so the community made a 5.2.4 release on July 22. The blogs.apache.org site has been updated to the latest release. The Roller web UI has been rewritten to use Twitter Bootstrap via the Struts 2 Bootstrap plugin. The Roller code base has been updated to run in Java 11. All of this work has been merged to master and the next step is a Roller 6.0.0 release. Roller 6 will be a major revision to Roller, but it will have the same database schema as Roller 5 and so should be an easy and no-risk upgrade. ## Community Health: There has been an uptick in Roller activity with new committer and PMC member Aditya Sharma. Two releases and major features (Bootstrap UI + Java 11 support) were merged to master. Also a contributor has provided the project with a set of new logos to consider. These are good signs for community health. Here are some stats that back that up: * dev@roller.apache.org had a 785% increase in traffic in the past quarter (124 emails compared to 14) * 9 issues opened in JIRA, past quarter (80% increase) * 7 issues closed in JIRA, past quarter (16% increase) * 37 commits in the past quarter (146% increase) * 5 code contributors in the past quarter (150% increase) * 7 PRs opened on GitHub, past quarter (133% increase) * 6 PRs closed on GitHub, past quarter (20% increase)
## Description:
Apache Roller is a full-featured, Java-based blog server that works well on
Tomcat and MySQL, and is known to run on other Java servers and relational
databases. Latest release is 5.2.2 and the ASF blog site at blogs.apache.org
runs on Roller 5.1.2 Tomcat and MySQL.
## Issues:
- There are no other issues requiring board attention at this time
## Activity:
- Currently preparing a Roller 5.2.3 release to address some bugs
- Currently working with Infra to get a blogs-test server setup to test
Roller 6 for blogs.apache.org
## Health report:
- Community is made-up of part-time volunteers with limited time to devote to
Roller. Currently only one committer is actively working on developing Roller
and making release. For the most part other committers only have time to
review and test release.
- Vote underway for a new committer, and initiated discussion with
another possible candidate.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 5 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Kohei Nozaki on Sun Dec 06 2015
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 8 committers.
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was Kohei Nozaki at Mon Mar 09 2015
## Releases:
- Last release was 5.2.2 on Wed Jan 09 2019
## Mailing list activity:
Subscriber counts could be taken to mean there is still some interest in
Apache Roller. The low email counts reflec the low level of development and
user-support activity.
- dev@roller.apache.org:
- 151 subscribers (up 1 in the last 3 months):
- 16 emails sent to list (30 in previous quarter)
- user@roller.apache.org:
- 273 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months):
- 12 emails sent to list (5 in previous quarter)
## JIRA activity:
- 7 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 6 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
## Description:
Apache Roller is a full-featured, Java-based blog server that works well on
Tomcat and MySQL, and is known to run on other Java servers and relational
databases. Latest release is 5.2.1 and the ASF blog site at blogs.apache.org
runs on Roller 5.1.2 Tomcat and MySQL.
## Issues:
- There are no other issues requiring board attention at this time
## Activity:
- New release made in January to upgrade Struts 2 due to a vulerability.
- Roller web UI modernized and completelyrewritten to use Struts Bootstrap tags.
- Hope to release new web UI as Apache Roller 6 this year
- Made 6.0.0-SNAPSHOT build available https://s.apache.org/6.0.0-snapshot
- Asked for feedback from community, Infra and Sally on new UI
- Offered to help create new blog themes for blogs.apache.org
## Health report:
Community is made-up of part-time volunteers with limited time to devote to
Roller. Currently only one committer is actively working on developing Roller
and making release. For the most part other committers only have time to
review and test release.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 5 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Kohei Nozaki on Sun Dec 06 2015
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 8 committers.
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was Kohei Nozaki at Mon Mar 09 2015
## Releases:
- Last release was 5.2.2 on January 10, 2019
- Release process underway for 5.2.3
## Mailing list activity:
Subscriber counts could be taken to mean there is still some interest in
Apache Roller. The low email counts reflec the low level of development and
user-support activity.
- dev@roller.apache.org:
- 150 subscribers (down -3 in the last 3 months):
- 23 emails sent to list (4 in previous quarter)
- user@roller.apache.org:
- 273 subscribers (down -2 in the last 3 months):
- 5 emails sent to list (4 in previous quarter)
## JIRA activity:
- 2 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 1 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
## Description:
Apache Roller is a full-featured, Java-based blog server that works well on
Tomcat and MySQL, and is known to run on other Java servers and relational
databases. Latest release is 5.2.1 and the ASF blog site at blogs.apache.org
runs on Roller 5.1.2 Tomcat and MySQL.
## Issues:
- Response to board questions from last report:
- rb: I improved the Health report to better reflect reality of project.
- idf: unfortunately, no new prospects for a while now. I'll nominate just
about anybody who shows interest at this point.
- There are no other issues requiring board attention at this time
## Activity:
- More progress made on new Struts-Bootstrap implementation of UI, about 75%
done with rewrite of web UI.
- New release made in October to upgrade Struts 2.
## Health report:
Community is made-up of part-time volunteers with limited time to devote to
Roller. Currently only one committer is actively working on developing Roller
and making release. For the most part other committers only have time to
review and test release.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 5 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Kohei Nozaki on Sun Dec 06 2015
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 8 committers.
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was Kohei Nozaki at Mon Mar 09 2015
## Releases:
- Last release was 5.2.1 on Oct 14 2018
## /dist/ errors: 12
I don't know what this means but I will follow up on it by the next report.
## Mailing list activity:
Subscriber counts could be taken to mean there is still some interest in
Apache Roller. The low email counts reflec the low level of development and
user-support activity.
- dev@roller.apache.org:
- 150 subscribers (down -3 in the last 3 months):
- 23 emails sent to list (4 in previous quarter)
- user@roller.apache.org:
- 273 subscribers (down -2 in the last 3 months):
- 5 emails sent to list (4 in previous quarter)
## JIRA activity:
- 2 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 1 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
## Description:
] Apache Roller is a full-featured, Java-based blog server that works well on
Tomcat and MySQL, and is known to run on other Java servers and relational
databases. Latest release is 5.2.0 and the ASF blog site at blogs.apache.org
runs on Roller 5.1.2 Tomcat and MySQL.
## Issues:
- There are no issues requiring board attention at this time
## Activity:
- Some progress made on new Struts-Bootstrap implementation of UI.
- Some progress on bug fixes and small improvements.
## Health report:
- Community is made-up of part-time volunteers with limited time to devote to
Roller.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 5 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Kohei Nozaki on Sun Dec 06 2015
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 8 committers.
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was Kohei Nozaki at Mon Mar 09 2015
## Releases:
- Last release was 5.2.0 on Sun Nov 05 2017
## Mailing list activity:
Subscriber counts could be taken to mean there is still some interest in
Apache Roller. The low email counts reflec the low level of development and
user-support activity.
- dev@roller.apache.org:
- 154 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months):
- 5 emails sent to list (20 in previous quarter)
- user@roller.apache.org:
- 275 subscribers (down -1 in the last 3 months):
- 4 emails sent to list (3 in previous quarter)
## JIRA activity:
- 6 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 4 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
## Description:
Apache Roller is a full-featured, Java-based blog server that works
well on Tomcat and MySQL, and is known to run on other Java servers
and relational databases. The ASF blog site at blogs.apache.org runs on
Roller 5.1.2 Tomcat and MySQL.
## Issues:
- There are no issues requiring board attention at this time
## Activity:
- Some progress made on new Struts-Bootstrap implementation of UI.
- Some progress on bug fixes and small improvements.
## Health report:
- Community is made-up of part-time volunteers with limited time to devote to Roller.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 5 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Kohei Nozaki on Sun Dec 06 2015
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 8 committers.
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was Kohei Nozaki at Mon Mar 09 2015
## Releases:
- Last release was 5.2.0 on Sun Nov 05 2017
## Mailing list activity:
Subscriber counts could be taken to mean there is still some interest in
Apache Roller. The low email counts reflect the low level of development
and user-support activity.
- dev@roller.apache.org:
- 154 subscribers (down -4 in the last 3 months):
- 20 emails sent to list (8 in previous quarter)
- user@roller.apache.org:
- 276 subscribers (down -4 in the last 3 months):
- 3 emails sent to list (6 in previous quarter)
## JIRA activity:
- 1 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 1 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
## Description:
Apache Roller is a full-featured, Java-based blog server that works well on
Tomcat and MySQL, and is known to run on other Java servers and relational
databases. The ASF blog site at blogs.apache.org runs on Roller 5.1.2 Tomcat
and MySQL.
## Issues:
- There are no issues requiring board attention at this time
## Activity:
- Almost no activity this past quarter, only one change to fix a unit test.
- The core Roller community is small and with low activity levels.
- There is ongoing work to create a modernized UI using Bootstrap with
Struts. See also:
https://rollerweblogger.org/roller/entry/modernizing-the-roller-ui
## Health report:
- Community is made-up of part-time volunteers with very limited time to
devote to Roller.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 5 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Kohei Nozaki on Sun Dec 06 2015
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 8 committers.
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was Kohei Nozaki at Mon Mar 09 2015
## Releases:
- Last release was 5.2.0 on Sun Nov 05 2017
## Mailing list activity:
Subscriber counts could be taken to mean there is still some interest in
Apache Roller. The low email counts reflect the low level of development and
user-support activity.
- dev@roller.apache.org:
- 158 subscribers (up 1 in the last 3 months):
- 1 emails sent to list (31 in previous quarter)
- user@roller.apache.org:
- 280 subscribers (down -2 in the last 3 months):
- 4 emails sent to list (5 in previous quarter)
## JIRA activity:
- 0 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 2 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
## Description: Apache Roller is a full-featured, Java-based blog server that works well on Tomcat and MySQL, and is known to run on other Java servers and relational databases. The ASF blog site at blogs.apache.org runs on Roller 5.1.2 Tomcat and MySQL. ## Issues: - There are no issues requiring board attention at this time ## Activity: - A new Roller 5.2.0 release was made on Sunday Nov 5, 2017, which included small improvements, bug fixes and dependency upgrades. - The core Roller community is small and with low activity levels. - There is ongoing work to create a modernized UI using Bootstrap with Struts. ## Health report: - Community is made-up of part-time volunteers with very limited time to devote to Roller. ## PMC changes: - Currently 5 PMC members. - No new PMC members added in the last 3 months - Last PMC addition was Kohei Nozaki on Sun Dec 06 2015 ## Committer base changes: - Currently 8 committers. - No new committers added in the last 3 months - Last committer addition was Kohei Nozaki at Mon Mar 09 2015 ## Releases: - 5.2.0 was released on Sun Nov 05 2017 ## Mailing list activity: Subscriber counts could be taken to mean there is still some interest in Apache Roller. The low email counts reflec the low level of development and user-support activity. - dev@roller.apache.org: - 158 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months): - 31 emails sent to list (4 in previous quarter) - user@roller.apache.org: - 281 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months): - 5 emails sent to list (1 in previous quarter) ## JIRA activity: - 2 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months - 1 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
## Description:
Apache Roller is a full-featured, Java-based blog server that works
well on Tomcat and MySQL, and is known to run on other Java servers
and relational databases. The ASF blog site at blogs.apache.org runs on
Roller 5.1.2 Tomcat and MySQL.
## Issues:
- There are no issues requiring board attention at this time
## Activity:
- The core Roller community is small and with low activity levels.
- There is ongoing work to create a modernized UI using Bootstrap with Struts.
- A new Roller 5.2.0 release is being prepared to fix I18N and other issues on blogs.apache.org
## Health report:
- Community is made-up of part-time volunteers with very limited time to devote to Roller.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 5 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Kohei Nozaki on Sun Dec 06 2015
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 9 committers.
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was Kohei Nozaki at Mon Mar 09 2015
## Releases:
- Last release was 5.1.2 on Tue Mar 24 2015
## Mailing list activity:
Subscriber counts could be taken to mean there is still some interest in
Apache Roller. The low email counts reflec the low level of development
and user-support activity.
- dev@roller.apache.org:
- 158 subscribers (up 1 in the last 3 months):
- 4 emails sent to list (4 in previous quarter)
- user@roller.apache.org:
- 281 subscribers (down -3 in the last 3 months):
- 1 emails sent to list (6 in previous quarter)
## JIRA activity:
- 2 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 2 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
## Description:
Apache Roller is a full-featured, Java-based blog server that works
well on Tomcat and MySQL, and is known to run on other Java servers
and relational databases. The ASF blog site at blogs.apache.org runs on
Roller 5.1.2 Tomcat and MySQL.
## Issues:
- There are no issues requiring board attention at this time
## Activity:
- The core Roller community is small and with low activity levels.
- There is ongoing work to create a modernized UI using Bootstrap with Struts.
## Health report:
- Community is made-up of part-time volunteers with limited time to devote to
Roller.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 5 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Kohei Nozaki on Sun Dec 06 2015
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 10 committers.
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was Kohei Nozaki at Mon Mar 09 2015
## Releases:
- Last release was 5.1.2 on Tue Mar 24 2015
## Mailing list activity:
Subscriber counts could be taken to mean there is still some interest in
Apache Roller. The low email counts reflec the low level of development
and user-support activity.
- dev@roller.apache.org:
- 157 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months):
- 4 emails sent to list (4 in previous quarter)
- user@roller.apache.org:
- 284 subscribers (down -3 in the last 3 months):
- 6 emails sent to list (2 in previous quarter)
## JIRA activity:
- 1 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 0 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
## Description:
Apache Roller is a full-featured, Java-based blog server that works
well on Tomcat and MySQL, and is known to run on other Java servers
and relational databases. The ASF blog site at blogs.apache.org runs on
Roller 5.0.3 Tomcat and MySQL.
## Issues:
- There are no issues requiring board attention at this time
## Activity:
- The core Roller community is small and with low activity levels.
- Roller website was switched over from Apache CMS to Git PubSub with JBake
- There is ongoing work to create a modernized UI using Bootstrap with Struts,
but it has slowed a bit since our last report.
## Health report:
- Community is made-up of part-time volunteers with limited time to devote to Roller.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 5 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Kohei Nozaki on Sun Dec 06 2015
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 10 committers.
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was Kohei Nozaki at Mon Mar 09 2015
## Releases:
- Last release was 5.1.2 on Tue Mar 24 2015
## Mailing list activity:
Subscriber counts could be taken to mean there is still some interest in
Apache Roller. The low email counts reflec the low level of development
and user-support activity.
- dev@roller.apache.org:
- 157 subscribers (down -1 in the last 3 months):
- 5 emails sent to list (5 in previous quarter)
- user@roller.apache.org:
- 287 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months):
- 3 emails sent to list (5 in previous quarter)
## JIRA activity:
- 2 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 1 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
## Description:
Apache Roller is a full-featured, Java-based blog server that works
well on Tomcat and MySQL, and is known to run on other Java servers
and relational databases. The ASF blog site at blogs.apache.org runs on
Roller 5.0.3 Tomcat and MySQL.
## Issues:
- There are no issues requiring board attention at this time
## Activity:
- The core Roller community is small and with low activity levels.
- Roller website was switched over from Apache CMS to Git PubSub with JBake
- There is ongoing work to create a modernized UI using Bootstrap with Struts,
but it slowed since our last report.
## Health report:
- Community is made-up of part-time volunteers with limited time to devote to
Roller.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 5 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Kohei Nozaki on Sun Dec 06 2015
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 10 committers.
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was Kohei Nozaki at Mon Mar 09 2015
## Releases:
- Last release was 5.1.2 on Tue Mar 24 2015
## Mailing list activity:
Subscriber counts could be taken to mean there is still good interest in
Apache Roller. The low email counts reflec the low level of development
and user-support activity.
- dev@roller.apache.org:
- 158 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months):
- 7 emails sent to list (2 in previous quarter)
- user@roller.apache.org:
- 287 subscribers (up 1 in the last 3 months):
- 5 emails sent to list (1 in previous quarter)
## JIRA activity:
- 3 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 1 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
## Description:
Apache Roller is a full-featured, Java-based blog server that works
well on Tomcat and MySQL, and is known to run on other Java servers
and relational databases. The ASF blog site at blogs.apache.org runs on
Roller 5.0.3 Tomcat and MySQL.
## Issues:
- There are no issues requiring board attention at this time
## Activity:
- The core Roller community is small and with low activity levels.
- There is ongoing work to create a modernized UI using Bootstrap with Struts
## Health report:
- Community is made-up of part-time volunteers with limited time to devote to Roller.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 5 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Kohei Nozaki on Sun Dec 06 2015
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 10 committers.
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was Kohei Nozaki at Mon Mar 09 2015
## Releases:
- Last release was 5.1.2 on Tue Mar 24 2015
## Mailing list activity:
Based on the low volume of activity and email, I'm surprised we have as
many subscribers as we do.
- dev@roller.apache.org:
- 158 subscribers (down -2 in the last 3 months):
- 2 emails sent to list (5 in previous quarter)
- user@roller.apache.org:
- 286 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months):
- 1 emails sent to list (1 in previous quarter)
## JIRA activity:
- 0 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 1 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
## Description:
Apache Roller is a full-featured, Java-based blog server that works
well on Tomcat and MySQL, and is known to run on other Java servers
and relational databases. The ASF blog site at blogs.apache.org runs on
Roller 5.0.3 Tomcat and MySQL.
## Issues:
There are no issues requiring board attention at this time
## Activity:
Very little activity to report this quarter.
The project moved to Git and is now able to accept Pull Requests from
GitHub. Some discussion of and progrss on a Twitter Bootstrap-based
update of the Roller admin UI.
## Health report:
Roller is driven by a couple of volunteers that use Roller and have
interest but limited time to contribute. Declining interest in blogging
decreases potential contributor pool.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 5 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Kohei Nozaki on Sun Dec 06 2015
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 10 committers.
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was Kohei Nozaki at Mon Mar 09 2015
## Releases:
- Last release was 5.1.2 on Tue Mar 24 2015
## Mailing list activity:
Numbers reflect delining interest in Roller and blogging in general.
- dev@roller.apache.org:
- 160 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months):
- 5 emails sent to list (25 in previous quarter)
- user@roller.apache.org:
- 286 subscribers (down -1 in the last 3 months):
- 1 emails sent to list (12 in previous quarter)
## JIRA activity:
- 1 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 1 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
## Description:
Apache Roller is a full-featured, Java-based blog server that works
well on Tomcat and MySQL, and is known to run on other Java servers
and relational databases. The ASF blog site at blogs.apache.org runs on
Roller 5.0.3 Tomcat and MySQL.
## Issues:
- There are no issues requiring board attention at this time
## Activity:
- The core Roller community is small and with low activity levels,
with only bug fixes and small improvements underway.
- Moved from Subversion to Git for SCM.
- Some discussion and activity around new Bootstrap based UI.
## Health report:
- Community is made-up of part-time volunteers with limited time to devote to
Roller.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 5 PMC members.
- Kohei Nozaki was added to the PMC on Sun Dec 06 2015
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 10 committers.
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was Kohei Nozaki at Mon Mar 09 2015
## Releases:
- Last release was 5.1.2 on Tue Mar 24 2015
## Mailing list activity:
- dev@roller.apache.org:
- 160 subscribers (up 1 in the last 3 months):
- 26 emails sent to list (6 in previous quarter)
- user@roller.apache.org:
- 287 subscribers (up 1 in the last 3 months):
- 13 emails sent to list (3 in previous quarter)
## JIRA activity:
- 21 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 7 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
Apache Roller is a full-featured, Java-based blog server that works well on Tomcat and MySQL, and is known to run on other Java servers and relational databases. The ASF blog site at blogs.apache.org runs on Roller 5.0.3 Tomcat and MySQL. Issues No board issues at this time. Releases The latest release of Apache Roller is v5.1.2, which was released on March 24, 2015 to fix a security vulnerability. Community The Roller community is small and with low activity levels, with only bug fixes and small improvements underway. The last new PMC member and committer who joined is Kohei Nozaki who joined on March 8, 2015.
Apache Roller is a full-featured, Java-based blog server that works well on Tomcat and MySQL, and is known to run on other Java servers and relational databases. The ASF blog site at blogs.apache.org runs on Roller 5.0.3 Tomcat and MySQL. Issues No board issues at this time. Releases The latest release of Apache Roller is v5.1.2, which was released on March 24, 2015 to fix a security vulnerability. The release announcement is here: http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/roller-dev/201503.mbox/%3CCAF1aazCxr+dwCGq4rMpEw_7nMD+c8jecGvas5kW9RjFN2gS-BA@mail.gmail.com%3E And the security vulnerability report is here: http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/roller-dev/201503.mbox/%3CCAF1aazAPWTduVhrPr7WiFaspFdsh21yf0YiSB3UmLjtDVGnfXw@mail.gmail.com%3E Community The Roller community is small but active these days, busy with a new release and fielding support questions about that release. The last new PMC member and committer who joined is Kohei Nozaki who joined on March 8, 2015. Roller committer Glen Mazza decided to resign from the PMC and remain with the project as a committer.
Apache Roller is a full-featured, Java-based blog server that works well on Tomcat and MySQL, and is known to run on other Java servers and relational databases. The ASF blog site at blogs.apache.org runs on Roller 5.0.3 Tomcat and MySQL. Issues No board issues at this time. Releases The latest release of Apache Roller is v5.1.2, which was released on March 24, 2015 to fix a security vulnerability. The release announcement is here: http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/roller-dev/201503.mbox/%3CCAF1aazCxr+dwCGq4rMpEw_7nMD+c8jecGvas5kW9RjFN2gS-BA@mail.gmail.com%3E And the security vulnerability report is here: http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/roller-dev/201503.mbox/%3CCAF1aazAPWTduVhrPr7WiFaspFdsh21yf0YiSB3UmLjtDVGnfXw@mail.gmail.com%3E Community The Roller community is small but active these days, busy with a new release and fielding support questions about that release. The last new PMC member and committer who joined is Kohei Nozaki who joined on March 8, 2015. This quarter, like most recent quarters, there has been a slow but steady stream of bug fixes, re-factorings and improvements to the Roller code base, documentation and the wiki.
Issues No board issues at this time. Releases The latest release of Apache Roller is v5.1.1, which was released on October 2, 2014 and includes a handfull of minor bug fixes. The announcement is here: http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/roller-dev/201410.mbox/%3C542CCE9C.80903@gmail.com%3E Community The Roller community is small but active these days, busy with a new release and fielding support questions about that release. The last new PMC member and committer who joined is Gaurav Saini who joined on July 3, 2014. This quarter, like most recent quarters, there has been a slow but steady stream of bug fixes, re-factorings and improvements to the Roller code base, documentation and the wiki.
Apache Roller is a full-featured, Java-based blog server that works well on Tomcat and MySQL, and is known to run on other Java servers and relational databases. The ASF blog site at blogs.apache.org runs on Roller 5.0.3, Tomcat and MySQL. Issues No board issues at this time. Releases The latest release of Apache Roller is v5.1.0, which was released on August 25, 2014 and features internal architectural changes and a new mobile theming feature. The announcement is here: http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-roller-user/201408.mbox/%3C53FB8963.2050500@apache.org%3E Community The Roller community is small but active these days, busy with a new release and fielding support questions about that release. The last new PMC member and committer who joined is Gaurav Saini who joined on July 3, 2014. This quarter, like most recent quarters, there has been a slow but steady stream of bug fixes, re-factorings and improvements to the Roller code base, documentation and the wiki.
Apache Roller is a full-featured, Java-based blog server that works well on Tomcat and MySQL, and is known to run on other Java servers and relational databases. The ASF blog site at blogs.apache.org runs on Roller 5.0.3, Tomcat and MySQL. Issues No board issues at this time. Releases The latest release of Apache Roller is v5.0.3, which was released on January 11, 2014, a security vulnerability and bug fix release. Community The Roller community is active these days and working on a major new release of Roller to be known as Roller 5.1 and will feature a cleaned-up and modernized code base and support for mobile themes. The last new PMC member and committer who joined is Gaurav Saini who joined on July 3, 2014. This quarter, like most recent quarters, there has been a slow but steady stream of bug fixes, re-factorings and improvements to the Roller code base, documentation and the wiki.
Apache Roller is a full-featured, Java-based blog server that works well on Tomcat and MySQL, and is known to run on other Java servers and relational databases. The ASF blog site at blogs.apache.org runs on Roller 5.0.2, Tomcat and MySQL. Issues No board issues at this time. Releases The latest release of Apache Roller is v5.0.2, which was released on October 30, 2013, a security vulnerability and bug fix release. Community The Roller community continues to be rather quiet with low traffic that mostly concerns bug fixes, code improvements and user support issues. The last new PMC member and committer who joined is Glenn Mazza in Nov 2012. This quarter, like most recent quarters, there has been a slow but steady stream of bug fixes, re-factorings and improvements to the Roller code base, documentation and the wiki.
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. The ASF blog site at blogs.apache.org runs on Roller 5.0.2. Issues No board issues at this time. Releases The latest release of Apache Roller is v5.0.2, which was released on October 30, 2013, a security vulnerability and bug fix release. Community The Roller community continues to be rather quiet with low traffic that mostly concerns technical support and installation issues. The last new PMC member and committer who joined is Glenn Mazza in Nov 2012.
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. The ASF blog site at blogs.apache.org runs on Roller 5.0.2. Issues No board issues at this time. Releases The latest release of Apache Roller is v5.0.2, which was released on October 30, 2013, a security vulnerability and bug fix release. For more information: http://rollerweblogger.org/project/entry/apache_roller_5_0_2 Community The Roller community has been active recently responding to security vulnerabilities reported by Coverity. We made the 5.0.2 release and upgraded blogs.apache.org to the new release. Apart from that activity, the Roller community continues to be rather quiet with low traffic that mostly concerns technical support and installation issues.
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. The ASF blog site at blogs.apache.org runs on Roller 5.0.1. Issues No board issues at this time. Releases The latest release of Apache Roller is v5.0.1, which was released on June 24, 2012, a security and bug fix release. Community The Roller community has been fairly active recently and since our last report the community has continued to clean-up the JIRA issue list, make simplifications in the Roller codebase and re-organize the Roller source into a smaller number of Maven modules. Apart from that activity, the Roller community continues to be rather quiet with low traffic that mostly concerns technical support and installation issues.
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. The ASF blog site at blogs.apache.org runs on Roller 5.0.1. Issues No board issues at this time. Releases The latest release of Apache Roller is v5.0.1, which was released on June 24, 2012, a security and bug fix release. Community Since our last report the community has continued to clean-up the JIRA issue list, make simplifications in the Roller codebase and re-organize the Roller source into a smaller number of Maven modules. Apart from that, the Roller community continues to be rather quiet with low traffic that mostly concerns technical support and installation issues.
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. The ASF blog site at blogs.apache.org runs on Roller 5.0.1. Issues No board issues at this time. Releases The latest release of Apache Roller is v5.0.1, which was released on June 24, 2012, a security and bug fix release. Community Since our last report we gained one committer, Glen Mazza, who single-handedly moved the Roller home page to the new Apache CMS. Glen has also been working to clean up the project's JIRA backlog, and closing hundreds of obsolete issues, and our wiki space. Apart from that, the Roller community continues to be rather quiet with low traffic that mostly concerns technical support and installation issues.
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. The ASF blog site blogs.apache.org runs on Roller 5.0.1. Issues No board issues at this time. Releases The latest release of Apache Roller is v5.0.1, which was released on June 24, 2012, a security and bug fix release. Community Since our last report, there have been a couple of patches and bug reports made. 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.
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. The ASF blog site blogs.apache.org runs on Roller 5.0.0. Issues No board issues at this time. Releases The Roller project announced the availability of a new Apache Roller 5.0.1 release and urged all Roller sites to upgrade. This new release is identical to Apache Roller 5.0 but with the addition of two security fixes: 1) fix for CVE-2012-2380: Roller Cross-Site-Resource-Forgery (XSRF) vulnerability 2) fix for CVE-2012-2381: Roller Cross-Site-Scripting (XSS) vulnerability We worked closely with the Apache Security team, followed the process and the community stepped up to test the fixes and get a release out. We also worked with the infrastructure team deployed the fixes to blogs.apache.org weeks before we announced the vulnerability. Community Apart from the above activity, 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.
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. The ASF blog site blogs.apache.org runs on Roller 5.0.0. Issues No board issues at this time. Releases The latest release of Apache Roller is v5.0, which was released on May 8, 2011. The community is currently working on a Roller 5.0.1 security and bug fix. Community Since our last report, there have been a couple of patches and a new contributor added support for Atlassian Crowd authentication. 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.
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, the Roller community has been making small bug fixes and has received a handful of patches from contributors. We have also discussed the possibility of a 5.0.1 release to incorporate recent Struts and Spring security fixes, though we have not confirmed any vulnerabilities yet. 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.
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.
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. The latest release of Apache Roller is v5.0, which was released on May 8, 2011. Since our last report, committer Shelan Perera has been working on mobile theme support as part of his Google Summer of Code project. Work is wrapping up this week. Apart from that, the Roller community continues to be relatively quiet with low traffic that mostly concerns technical support and installation issues. No new committers or PMC changes to report.
Apache Roller: ASF Board Report for May 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 committer 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
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.
Greg: 1. Generally, Board reports should directly include information rather than have external references (eg. the new features reference). the minutes need to be independent of any/all future changes to external content. 2. You list EE servers, but not Geronimo? 3. Are these new contributors becoming committers and/or joining the PMC? We've been seeing issues with projects not recruiting enough for continuity.
Action item: Greg follow up with Dave to improve future reports.
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. 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.
Since the last report we've made slow progress towards a Apache Roller 5.0 release. We've gotten a small amount of feedback on the RC1 release candidate and fixed a dozen or so bugs found. Mailing list traffic continues to be slow. No new releases, no new committers. We should be able to muster enough votes for a Roller 5.0 release when the time comes, but to stay viable we really need some new PMC members soon. To encourage more participation in Roller, we updated the "how to contribute page" and tried to make it easier to read: http://s.apache.org/contribute-to-roller I also did some totally unofficial and not-speaking-for-Apache blogging to explain how Roller works, how folks can help and why they benefit from pitching in. http://rollerweblogger.org/project/entry/roller_needs_you The ASF blog server blogs.apache.org is running Roller 5.0 built from (almost) latest trunk code. There is now a custom build script in /infra/infrastructure/trunk/roller that builds Roller, adds some ASF themes, plugins and configurations. As part of that and to support Ross Gardler's ASF Newsletter proposal, a blogs-to-newsletter plugin has been coded up and is ready for testing (see also http://s.apache.org/blog-newsletter). For the board and anybody else reading: if you've got ideas for improving blogs.apache.org, the Roller PMC would like to hear from you, or just post an issue here https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA (component: blogs).
Kudos for the community outreach.
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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
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.
Status of work in the trunk All features in the Roller 5.0 proposal have been implemented and we're in the final push to get Roller 5.0 out. Roller 5.0 Proposal on Wiki http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/x/9aQB Recent activities We have just started to make Roller 5.0 builds available for testing, the first one is Roller 5.0 beta 1. Once we've gotten enough feedback on the new features we'll start creating Release Candidate builds for a final Roller 5.0 release. Mail thread - "Apache Roller 5.0 beta 1 build available" http://markmail.org/thread/rwk6pj4voxbyuaj3 Apache Roller 5.0 beta 1 build files http://people.apache.org/~snoopdave/apache-roller-5.0/ Status of the community Mailing list traffic is light but steady. Dave Johnson presented at ApacheCon US 2009 on the topic of What's new in Roller 5.0.
This is Roller's quarterly board report for August 2009. It covers community health, status of our most recent release, work that has been done in the trunk and plans for new work. Status of work in the trunk Below are the changes in the trunk since the last report: * The new Media Blogging additions from Ganesh Mathrubootham (committer) and Tanuja Varkanthe have been merged into trunk. * A patch from Nathan Beyer helped us to upgrade from OpenJPA 0.97 to OpenJPA 1.2 (not as easy as one might think). Plans for new work in the trunk Current plan is to release the the current trunk plus small improvements and bug fixes as Roller 5.0. Here is the current Roller 5.0 proposal on the Roller wiki: http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/x/9aQB Community health Status here is mostly unchanged since last report. The community is doing OK, but our committers are definitely not as active as they were in the past and we need some new blood. Dave Johnson's proposal for a What's New in Roller 5.0 talk was accepted for ApacheConUS 2009.
This is Roller's quarterly board report for May 2009. It covers community health, status of our most recent release, work that has been done in the trunk and plans for new work. Status of work in the trunk (Unchanged since last report) Below are the changes in the trunk since the last major release. In December 2008, Dave Johnson proposed that the next major release of Roller include these changes, enchanced Media Blogging, cluster-friendly search and upgrades to the latest Struts and OpenJPA releases. * We added a new fully pluggable user management system and better support for contributed by Dave Johnson working on Sun's social software for Glassfish efforts. * Our Google Summer of Code student has completed OpenID support, using Spring Security to do. We are currently evaluating the final patch. * Dave Johnson started working on upgrading from OpenJPA 0.9.7 to OpenJPA 1.0 but ran in to problems and has committed none of this work. * Allen Gilliland contributed his most recent code for Apache Roller Planet, from his work on planets.sun.com. This is a separate application from the Apache Roller Weblogger and has not yet been released. Media Blogging work is complete and ready for trunk Two San Jose State University (SJSU) students, Ganesh Mathrubootham and Tanuja Varkanthe, have completed a two-semester project to improve Roller's Media Blogging features. This includes better management of media files images, video and audio files, new user interfaces for browsing and selecting media files and more. They've been doing extensive work on the Roller wiki to create a proposal and detailed design for this work. We are preparing to merge this work into the Roller trunk during May 2009. Community health Status here is mostly unchanged since last report. The community is doing well, but our committers are definitely not as active as they were in the past and we need some new blood.
This is Roller's quarterly board report for February 2009. It covers community health, status of our most recent release, work that has been done in the trunk and plans for new work. Status of work in the trunk Below are the changes in the trunk since the last major release. (no change since last report) * We added a new fully pluggable user management system and better support for contributed by Dave Johnson working on Sun's social software for Glassfish efforts. * Our Google Summer of Code student has completed OpenID support, using Spring Security to do. We are currently evaluating the final patch. * Dave Johnson started working on upgrading from OpenJPA 0.9.7 to OpenJPA 1.0 but ran in to problems and has committed none of this work. * Allen Gilliland contributed his most recent code for Apache Roller Planet, from his work on planets.sun.com. This is a separate application from the Apache Roller Weblogger and has not yet been released. In December 2008, Dave Johnson proposed that the next major release of Roller include these changes, enchanced Media Blogging, cluster-friendly search and upgrades to the latest Struts and OpenJPA releases. His proposal is here Apache Roller 5.0 Release: http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/x/9aQB Plans for new work in the trunk Two San Jose State University (SJSU) students, Ganesh Mathrubootham and Tanuja Varkanthe, are working on a two-semester project to improve Roller's Media Blogging features. This includes better management of media files images, video and audio files, new user interfaces for browsing and selecting media files and more. They've been doing extensive work on the Roller wiki to create a proposal and detailed design for this work, which you can find here: http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/x/rnkB We created a branch for the development of these new features and In late December 2008, Ganesh submitted and we accepted a patch that includes new manager interfaces, POJOs, Struts actions and JSPs that form the foundation for the Media Blogging work. Status of Apache Roller 4.0 After learning of a security vulnerability in our 4.0 release, we decided it was time to make a release to include a fix for the security problem plus the dozens of bug fixes we've made since 4.0 was released in December 2007. The release announcement is here: http://markmail.org/message/zf3o5kx6omd3mhrv Community health The community is doing well, but our committers are definitely not as active as they were in the past and we need some new blood. We nominated and voted in a new committer Ganesh Mathrubootham and there are several other community members that may develop into new committers.
This is Roller's quarterly board report for November 2008. It covers community health, status of our most recent release, work that has been done in the trunk and plans for new work. Status of work in the trunk (Unchanged since last report) Here's some of the work we've done since 4.0 was release. The user management work is probably significant enough to justify calling the next release 5.0. We need to decide whether to push a new release out soon as is, or later with better plugin support. * We added a new fully pluggable user management system and better support for contributed by Dave Johnson working on Sun's social software for Glassfish efforts. * Our Google Summer of Code student has completed OpenID support, using Spring Security to do. We are currently evaluating the final patch. * Dave Johnson started working on upgrading from OpenJPA 0.9.7 to OpenJPA 1.0 but ran in to problems and has committed none of this work. * Allen Gilliland contributed his most recent code for Apache Roller Planet, from his work on planets.sun.com. This is a separate application from the Apache Roller Weblogger and has not yet been released. Plans for new work in the trunk Two San Jose State University students, Ganesh Mathrubootham and Tanuja Varkanthe, are working on a two-semester project to improve Roller's Media Blogging features. This includes better management of media files images, video and audio files, new user interfaces for browsing and selecting media files and more. They've been doing extensive work on the Roller wiki to create a proposal and detailed design for this work, which you can find here: Proposal Media Blogging Support. Just last week we created a branch for the development of these new features, which will eventually (we hope) find their way in to the trunk. Proposal - http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/x/rnkB Status of Apache Roller 4.0 (Unchanged since last report) Roller 4.0 is the best available release of Roller. We have made enough bug fixes in the 4.0 code base to justify a 4.0.1 release, users have tested snapshot builds and we should wrap things up and make a final 4.0.1 release as soon as possible. Community health (Unchanged since last report) Development activity still relatively slow due to committers working on other projects and the fact that Roller 4.0 is stable and works well as is. User support questions are coming in at a steady clip and the mailing list is responding to them adequately. Promoting the project Dave Johnson spoke on the topic of Roller at the Open Source Days conference in Copenhagen, Denmark on October 4, 2008. He covered this history of the project, current status and his thoughts about the future of the project. Session abstract here: http://www.opensourcedays.org/2008/agenda/sessions/DaveJohnson.shtml
1.0 Community health Development activity still slow due to committers working on other projects and the fact that Roller 4.0 is stable and works well as is. User support questions are coming in at a steady clip and the mailing list is responding to them adequately. 1.1 Activity begets activity and vice versa Lack of activity is a problem for the community, because it makes the project appear to be stagnant and that discourages new users, which reduces the pool of new community members. So, I will briefly discuss why we have lack of activity and ways we can address the issue. One reason for the lack of activity is that two high-profile projects that use Roller (and employ or employed committers) are now operating on forks of the code base and the committers have stopped contributing back to Roller. Why did they fork? I believe this is due to the instability that was caused by our Apache policy required move away from Hibernate/LGPL and move to OpenJPA. Those two high-profile projects are still not using our new implementation and perhaps cannot justify the time required to get back in sync with main-line Roller development. 1.2 Ways to get active How can we get some activity going again? Here are some ideas: * Make Roller more pluggable so that new features can be added without de-stabilizing the core of Roller. * Make it easier to contribute with better guidelines for new developers and less emphasis on proposal; patches should be preferred over proposals. * Learn a lesson from GSoC. Define some projects that we want to have developed, advertise our need for help on the projects and be prepared to mentor volunteers. * Wrap up bug fixes and release Apache Roller 4.0.1 2.0 Status of Apache Roller 4.0 Roller 4.0 is the best available release of Roller. We have made enough bug fixes in the 4.0 code base to justify a 4.0.1 release, users have tested snapshot builds and we should wrap things up and make a final 4.0.1 release as soon as possible. 3.0 Status of work in the trunk Here's some of the work we've done since 4.0 was release. The user management work is probably significant enough to justify calling the next release 5.0. We need to decide whether to push a new release out soon as is, or later with better plugin support. * We added a new fully pluggable user management system and better support for contributed by Dave Johnson working on Sun's social software for Glassfish efforts. * Our Google Summer of Code student has completed OpenID support, using Spring Security to do. We are currently evaluating the final patch. * We started working on upgrading from OpenJPA 0.9.7 to OpenJPA 1.0 but ran in to problems and have committed none of this work. * Allen Gilliland contributed his most recent code for Apache Roller Planet, from his work on planets.sun.com. This is a separate application from the Apache Roller Weblogger and has not yet been released. 3.1 Plans for new work in the trunk Two students have signed up, as part of the Glassfish community outreach programs, and applied to work on a project I proposed called Media Blogging for Roller to improve support for file uploads and blogging about uploaded pictures, audio and video files. Expect to see them on the mailing lists before the end of August. 4.0 Promoting the project My talk was rejected at ApacheCon US, but will be speaking at Open Source Days on the topic of "The Once and Future Roller", where I'll tell the story of Roller and ideas on the intersection of Roller/blogging and social networking.
The board reaffirmed its position that LGPL dependencies such as Hibernate must be optional. We discussed whether there was any potential naming issues that the PRC needed to follow up on w.r.t. the known forks, and decided that no action was warranted at this time.
Since our last report in February the Roller project has been making slow progress on two fronts: Roller 4.0 and Roller 4.1, mostly in the form of testing and bug fixes. Community is healthy, though we have seen some slow-down in mailing list activity. Here are the details. Roller 4.1 development, now in trunk Roller 4.1 development is underway and since the Roller 4.0 release, we have merged the work into the trunk. 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. * See also Proposal Roller 4.1 Release * See also list of issues resolved in our JIRA bug tracker Apache Roller 3.1 completed, 3.1.1 RC6 ready for testing No change in 3.1.1 status since last report. We still have not gotten votes for release. 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 RC6, made available October 4, 2007 (announcement here: http://tinyurl.com/ynmrtj). Community health Community health is good, but activity has slowed a little since Fall of 2007. Developers and users are active on the mailing lists, reporting bugs, submitting patches and seeking support. An all-new talk on Advanced Apache Roller was given ApacheCon EU 2008 and was submitted for ApacheCon US 2008. * See also Roller mail list stats * See also Roller web and download stats Other matters Review of encryption technologies is underway. At this point it appears that our only usage of encryption is for password authentication, provided by Spring Acegi and Commons Codec.
* Apache Roller 4.0 released! Roller 4.0 is a major new release that upgrades Roller to Jave SE 5, Struts 2, Velocity 1.5 and OpenJPA. It's the first release that does not require Hibernate or any other LGPL code to run. It was released on December 5, 2007 and announced on the Roller mailing lists and the project blog. We've made enough bug fixes in the Roller 4.0 branch that it's probable time to start thinking about a bug 4.0.1 bug fix release. Here's the list of issues fixed for 4.0.1. * Roller 4.1 development, now in trunk Roller 4.1 development is underway and since the Roller 4.0 release, we have merged the work into the trunk. 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 3.1 completed, 3.1.1 RC6 ready for testing No change in 3.1.1 status since last report. We still have not gotten votes for release. 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 RC6, made available October 4, 2007 (announcement here: http://tinyurl.com/ynmrtj). * Some post graduation work still TBD No change in status. JIRA is still hosted externally. 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). * Community health Community health is good, but activity has slowed a little during Fall of 2007. Developers and users are active on the mailing lists, reporting bugs, submitting patches and seeking support. A talk on Advanced Apache Roller has been accepted for ApacheCon EU 2008.
Sam to follow up with Dave on Crypto policy.
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No report provided. Justin will follow up.
Apache Roller has been making great progress over the past couple of months in new development. In addition to announcing our graduation with a brand new release of Roller 3.1 we have also done a tremendous amount of development for the Roller 4.0 release. Much of the new work involved use of other Apache projects, for example we migrated from Struts 1 to Struts 2, we upgraded to Velocity 1.5 and we completely replaced Hibernate with OpenJPA. We also upgraded from JDK 1.4.2 to Java SE 1.5. 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. Apache Roller 3.1 completed, 3.1.1 RC2 ready for testing ======================================================== 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). Apache Roller 4.0 RC1 available for testing =========================================== Made available August 11, 2007 (announcement here: http://tinyurl.com/22wq7y). 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. 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 presented on *Roller and blogs as a web development platform* at Apachecon EU in May and will present the same talk (but updated for Roller 4.0) at Apachecon US in November (see also http://us.apachecon.com/us2007/program/talk/2023).
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We made our graduation announcement and released Apache Roller 3.1, but this month we're still working on multiple upcoming releases. The community is active and getting along well. Here are the details. Graduation announcement and Roller 3.1 release We postponed our graduation announcement until the Roller 3.1 release was ready and made a simultaneous 3.1 and graduation announcement just in time for ApacheCon EU and JavaOne 2007. Here's the announcement: http://tinyurl.com/2ns42y Upcoming Releases: Roller 4.0 The original plan for Roller 4.0 was to make "infrastructure" changes including upgrades to Java SE 5, new non-Hibernate back-end, Struts2, Velocity 1.5 and XMLRPC 3.0. Now the plans are expanding to include some more features to be implemented by Sun and IBM, full Struts2 migration (and possible a new installer). Last month we reported that consensus seems to point to a May release for 4.0, because we still have work to do on testing our new back-end and because we've decided to do a complete Struts2 migration instead of simply migrating a couple of key pages. Allen Gilliland has made tremendous progress on the Struts2 works and has written an excellent migration guide to help others pitch in. [http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/ROLLER/Struts2+Migration] Upcoming bug fix release: Roller 3.1.1 A number of serious but easy to fix bugs have been found in the Roller 3.1 release, so we've proposed a Roller 3.1.1 release with a first RC before the end of May 2007. [http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/ROLLER/Proposal+Roller+3.1.1+Release] Upcoming XSS security fix releases: Roller 2.3.1 and 3.0.1 A number of XSS security vulnerabilities were reported in Roller 2.3 and 3.0. We worked with the reporter to detail and fix the problems and prepared "patch" releases 2.3.1 and 3.0.1. We have release candidates ready for those releases, *we're still having problems finding time to test them*. Post graduation work Still need to move the JIRA issue tracker over to Apache infrastructure. Community The community is getting along fine with lots of discussion on the topic of new features. Mailing list traffic seems to have picked up a bit since the graduation/Roller 3.1 announcement. Dave Johnson spoke at ApacheCon EU 2007 on Roller and blogs as a web development platform and submitted several Roller related talks for ApacheCon US 2007 (November).
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This month the Roller project is working on multiple upcoming releases and post-graduation work. The community is active and getting along well and we accepted a patch from a new contributor. Here are the details. Upcoming Releases: Roller 4.0 The original plan for Roller 4.0 was to make "infrastructure" changes including upgrades to Java SE 5, new non-Hibernate back-end, Struts 2, Velocity 1.5 and XMLRPC 3.0. Now the plans are expanding to include some more features to be implemented by Sun and IBM. At this point consensus seems to point to a May release for 4.0. While the rest of the 4.0 work taking place in the trunk, the new back-end work is happing in a separate branch and kept in sync on at least a weekly basis. We still have not made the final decision about which persistence technology to use. The JPA implementation is passing 100% of unit test. It's still possible that IBM will contribute an iBatis implementation in time for 4.0. Upcoming Releases: Roller 3.1 release We've been having some difficulties getting the Roller 3.1 release out. We've been creating release candidates for a couple of months now, but testing takes time and contributors have not been stepping up to test each release. Another RC will go out this week and hopefully we'll start the final vote. Upcoming Releases: Roller 2.3.1 and Roller 3.0.1 patch releases A number of XSS security vulnerabilities were reported in Roller 2.3 and 3.0. We worked with the reporter to detail and fix the problems and prepared "patch" releases 2.3.1 and 3.0.1. We have release candidates ready for those releases, but again, we're having problems finding time to test them. We're considering announcing these release candidates more widely (on blogs, etc.) to encourage more testing and feedback. Post graduation work We're still picking up the post-graduation pieces. Mailing lists, SVN, wiki and the website have all been moved over to TLP. The next step is to move the JIRA issue tracker over to Apache infrastructure. Community The community is getting along fine with lots of discussion on the topic of new features. No new committers this month, but we do have a new contributor. Thanks to new contributor Sedat Ciftci, who contributed a significant new patch for account activation via email. It was accepted, committed to trunk and will be included in the 4.0 release.
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There are four areas of activities in Roller right now, here's a summary of status and progress in each. Graduation Apache Roller has graduated so now we're trying to get a website up and running at roller.apache.org. We've filed a JIRA request with the INFRA team (https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-1181). Once we get up and running we'll make more formal announcements and perhaps a press release via the PRC. We have a new release ready (3.1) that could coincide with the announcement. Roller 3.1 release At RC5, Roller 3.1 is just about ready to roll. We could hold off and time the release with the graduation announcements, or not. The What's New in Roller 3.1 page is here: http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/ROLLER/What%27s+new+in+Roller+3.1 Roller 4.0 release In 4.0 we plan to make some infrastructural changes to Roller; switching to a new non-Hibernate backend, requiring Java SE 5 and starting the Struts2 migration. We were planning to wrap up work by late March, but a host of new proposals just rolled in so March is probably out of the picture. The latest 4.0 proposal is here: http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/ROLLER/Proposal+Roller+4.0+Release Hibernate replacement for 4.0 We'll soon have a couple of options for replacing Hibernate, our sole remaining LGPL dependency. Craig Russell and Mitesh Mewani developed a new JPA based backend for Roller using a datamapper abstraction that allows support of JPA, JDO and other technologies. Dave Johnson developed a new version of the JPA backend that calls JPA directly. Elias Torres reports that IBM will soon donate an iBatis implementation as well. We hope to find consensus on which one to use by doing a bake-off.
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8. Special Orders
WHEREAS, the Board of Directors deems it to be in the best interests of the Foundation and consistent with the Foundation's purpose to establish a Project Management Committee charged with the creation and maintenance of open-source software related to the Roller blog server, for distribution at no charge to the public. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that a Project Management Committee (PMC), to be known as the "Apache Roller Project", be and hereby is established pursuant to Bylaws of the Foundation; and be it further RESOLVED, that the Apache Roller Project be and hereby is responsible for the creation and maintenance of open-source software related to the Roller blog server; and be it further RESOLVED, that the office of "Vice President, Roller" be and hereby is created, the person holding such office to serve at the direction of the Board of Directors as the chair of the Apache Roller Project, and to have primary responsibility for management of the projects within the scope of responsibility of the Apache Roller Project; and be it further RESOLVED, that the persons listed immediately below be and hereby are appointed to serve as the initial members of the Apache Roller Project: * Anil Gangolli <gangolli@apache.org> * Allen Gilliland <agilliland@apache.org> * Dave Johnson <snoopdave@apache.org> * Matt Raible <mraible@apache.org> * Craig Russell <clr@apache.org> * Matthew Schmidt <mattschmidt@apache.org> * Elias Torres <eliast@apache.org> * Henri Yandell <bayard@apache.org> NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Dave Johnson be appointed to the office of Vice President, Roller, to serve in accordance with and subject to the direction of the Board of Directors and the Bylaws of the Foundation until death, resignation, retirement, removal or disqualification, or until a successor is appointed; and be it further RESOLVED, that the initial Apache Roller Project be and hereby is tasked with the creation of a set of bylaws intended to encourage open development and increased participation in the Roller Project; and be it further RESOLVED, that the initial Apache Roller Project be and hereby is tasked with the migration and rationalization of the Apache Incubator Roller podling; and be it further RESOLVED, that all responsibility pertaining to the Apache Incubator Roller podling encumbered upon the Apache Incubator PMC are hereafter discharged. Special Order 6B, Establish the Apache Roller Project, was approved by Unanimous Vote.
We've been very busy with new feature development for Roller, but we have also spent time preparing Roller for graduation and now that we've got an Apache web and wiki presence, two of the last items on our checklist, we feel that we're just about ready to call for a vote. More about that later. For now, here's some status on our accomplishments since our last report in July 2006: * Roller 3.0 released. We detailed the new features of Roller 3.0 in the last report. They include a completely new rendering system with a new URL structure, new template models/macros, better multi-language blog support and a new blog-based front page. We released Roller 3.0 on November 7, 2006. http://rollerweblogger.org/wiki/Wiki.jsp?page=Roller_3.0_WhatsNew * Roller 3.1 development. Following Roller 3.0, we developed another major new release of Roller. The major new features are full-support for weblog tagging, a better rich-text editor based on Xinha, full-preview and bulk-delete of comments. We've made three release candidate releases and with RC3 we're just about ready to make the final release. http://rollerweblogger.org/wiki/Wiki.jsp?page=Roller_3.1_WhatsNew * Established Roller web presence at apache.org. We have now established a web site for Roller at apache.org. Keeping with our community traditions, this site will be a simple front-page that links into a wiki where actual content will be created and updated. http://incubator.apache.org/roller/ * Established Roller wiki space at apache.org. We have also started to migrate wiki content from the old Roller wiki to the new wiki site at apache.org. We chose Confluence because we want the wiki to serve as a tightly controlled content management system (similar to the way we were using JSPWiki before). http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/ROLLER * We have almost completed a JPA implementation of Roller back-end. The new implementation is passing about 95% of the back-end unit tests and we are actively working on getting it ready to test and compare against our current Hibernate implementation. * As part of our community building efforts we presented talk on Roller at ApacheCon US 2006 and have submitted multiple Roller-related proposals to ApacheCon EU and JavaOne 2007.
Roller 3.0 work complete - We reported on the new featues of Roller 3.0 in the last status report. Roller 3.0 is now in production at several sites and is ready for release. We are currently testing RC4 and hoping to release shortly. Roller 3.1 nearing completion, RC1 sometime in the next week - features include: - Full support for tagging weblog entries, displaying a tag cloud, viewing blog pages by tag and providing dynamic RSS/Atom feeds based on tags. - Theme encapsulation: when you customize a theme the resources are now copied into your file upload area - making custom themes independent so they won't break when new versions of themes are deployed. - Replaced RTE editor with more sophisticated Xinha WYSIWYG editor Ready for graduation? - our licensing issues are behind us. We no longer ship any LGPL components and three separate effort exist to replace our Hibernate dependency with a non LGPL solution (using JDO, JPA and iBatis). Apparently, all we need to do to graduate is to build up our web presence within the incubator and migrate our bug database. Community building efforts - Earlier efforts are bearing fruit: IBM Is now contributing regularly to development via committer Elias Torres, who implemented weblog entry tagging support in Roller 3.1. Dave Johnson presented is Roller "primer for new users and contributors" talk at ApacheCon US 2006 in Austin, TX.
Major new developments in Roller 3.0. Working in the roller_3.0 branch, Allen Gilliland and Dave Johnson have been making extensive changes to Roller's blog/page rendering system. Roller 3.0's new features are: * Completely new URL structure, with redirection for old URLs * Completely rewritten/refactored page/feed rendering system * View renders are pluggable * Made progress towards static rendering * All new set of page models and macros * Multi-language blog support, based on new URL structure * Front-page of Roller is now a blog with optional site-wide features: * Planet page model and planet display macros * Site-wide model supports listing of new users, new weblogs, hot weblogs and other community oriented queries. * Macros for diplaying A-Z user and weblog directories Licensing issues may be behind us. Dave Johnson worked to satisfiy ASF licencing and packaging requirements and as a result of this work, we made our first Roller release (2.3) on ASF infrastructure: * Licence headers in every file * Changed to org.apache package names for all Java code * Removed all LGPL code from release (Hibernate, JSPWiki, Jazzy, etc.) * Created a Roller Support project on Java.Net for non-ASF Roller goodies such as LGPL/GPL licensed themes, plugins and other downloads. New APP draft #9 support. The IETF released Atom Publishing Protocol (APP) draft #9 and Dave Johnson updated Roller's APP implementation to support this new draft. APP is an "experimental" feature in Roller and is turned off by default. Movement on replace-Hibernate front. Craig Russell has put together some proposals for implementing both JPA and JDO backends for Roller -- so that we can eventually replace our dependency on Hibernate. We nominated him for committer status to make it easier for him to contribute, but the voting process is still dragging on. Multi-side patch contribution. A Norwegian company LinPro has submitted a large patch for multi-site blogging. It looks like a very interesting and valuable new feature but thus far nobody has had time to evaluate the code. Community building efforts. Dave Johnson presented a talk on Roller at ApacheCon EU 2006, designed to inspire and educate new users, developers and contributors. The talk was well attended. Dave will present a similar talk, but completely updated for Roller 3.0 at ApacheCon US 2006.
We currently have a critical dependency on Hibernate which needs to be resolved. There have been several offers to replace Hibernate with Apache License compatible products, including JDO. Craig Russell is actively working on a JDO implemenation that should be able to replace Hibernate. We have just removed one other LGPL dependeny on "FindBugs". While the remaining LGPL dependencies are being resolved, the project has continued to move forward by making releases through the RollerWeblogger.org site, including the 2.0.1 release on 5 January 2006. The release is clearly marked "2.0-incubating". The 2.1-dev codebase is being tested in production at the RollerWeblogger.org site. Aside from dependencies, the biggest issues we have to resolve now are moving the documentation (JSP Wiki) and issue tracking (JIRA) from their current homes to the ASF. During incubation, we've added one new committer, Matt Schmidt, bringing the tally to seven committers and PPMC members.
* Developed minor Roller 1.3 release and voted to release it
* Developed major Roller 2.0 release with group blogging an new UI
* Added new committer Elias Torres
* Added status page on incubator site:
http://incubator.apache.org/projects/roller.html
Development status - Work is proceeding on Roller 2.0, which will be ready in August. The main (and possibly only) new feature of Roller 2.0 will be group blogging support -- this is a big feature and requires a very large number of changes to the code base and user interface - Work is proceeding on Roller 1.3, which will be ready this month. The main feature will be better theme management. - Roller 1.2 was released from Java.Net as a totally non-Apache release, but using code from the Apache incubator's Subversion repository (we hope to do the same thing for 1.3, but that's up for discussion). Licensing issues Roller requires several LGPL components and we're working to resolve LGPL issues. We have been discussing this challenging issue in depth, here is a summary of the apparent consensus: - We hope that ASF will come to some agreement with either FSF or Hibernate folks which will allow us to continue to use Hibernate - We are investigating ways to download our dependencies at build/install time, so that we don't have to distribute LGPL jars (but other work is taking priority right now) - We're willing to wait out the LGPL issue for a reasonable period of time, as long as there is some way for us to continue to make releases to our existing user community Infrastructure issues - Roller code base has been moved into the Apache incubator's Subversion archive - Roller project is now using Apache incubator dev and user mailing lists - A draft of our STATUS file has been created and is ready for review by mentor - We're not listed on any of the incubator pages yet (can we fix this?)