Blogging Roller

Dave Johnson on social software, open source and Java

Above: a random selection of photos from my Flickr photo-stream.

Wednesday Jul 30, 2003

Welcome to the Roller project.

Big round of applause for Anthony Eden and Min Idzelis who have just joined the Roller project. Hip, hip, hoooooray! By the way, Min lives right in the Triangle. I'll have to convince him to come out to the next RTP Bloggers lunch.

Hey, I resemble that remark.

Charles Miller - Version Numbers and You: Too many Open Source projects treat Version 1.0 as some kind of Holy Grail that can only be reached when the project is perfect. I find that highly annoying, because it makes it really, really difficult to tell a sketchy alpha from production code that is just still in pre-1.0 because the author wants it to do everything.
If we add multiple categories per post, I'd be happy calling the next release Roller 1.0 rather than Roller 0.9.8.