Blogging Roller

Sam Ruby writes "Perhaps it is time to build a community of open source weblog developers?" I think a diverse community of open source weblog developers is already growing.  I just wish the community was not quite so architecturally diverse, because that would make it easier for me to crib source code from other projects.

Ugo Cei has released CocoBlog, the blogging software he uses to run his blog.  Like Roller, CocoBlog is probably not quite ready for prime-time.  Unlike Roller, CocoBlog is based on Apache Cocoon and Apache Xindice.

Yesterday I moved the Roller sources into the SourceForge CVS.  I had been managing them using Perforce (which rocks, by the way) on my homebox.

I had to rush out Roller 0.9.2 earlier this evening.  I found a couple of bugs in the user and newsfeed manager classes in the 0.9.1 release.  The bugs in the user manager were causing an exception to be thrown during new user registration.  Clearly, I need to do better sanity testing.  Sorry folks!

Some more good news. Shift\@ is supporting Roller as part of its product portfolio and Werner Ramaekers of Shift\@ is going to be helping out with Roller development. Welcome aboard Werner and thanks for lending a hand!

I've been thinking about how to make Roller really useful as a weblogger and trying to prioritize features for a 1.0 release.  I've saved my thoughts as a "story" called Roller Wish List.