Blogging Roller

Matt is picking up my slack and making bunch of usability and UI enhancements to Roller 0.9.6-rc1. He has done the most work in this area of any of the Roller crew and he the best looking Roller based weblog around - based on his x2 theme which is now part of the Roller distribution.

There have only been four downloads of Roller 0.9.6-rc1 so far and I can understand that. Who'd want to download and install Roller only to have to do it again next week. Still, we are getting some good bug reports and finding things that should be fixed before the final 0.9.6. I don't want to release 0.9.6 until our two big customers are happy with it. I'm hoping to get some time this weekend to wrap up the User Guide, fix some RSS output issues, and wrap up the pluggable authentication stuff. Hopefully, 0.9.6 final will be the weekend after that.

I just bought a Dell 450mhz PC with 256mb RAM, 8gb disk, 17 inch monitor, keyboard, track-mouse, 2 power-strips, and a UPS for $100. What a deal! I'm working on setting it up for my wife tonight instead of working on Roller.

Matt Raible has installed RC1 and is finding and fixing some small issues. Hopefully Anthony Eden will be trying RC1 tonight. In other news... Anythony reported a problem with Roller 0.9.4's RSS output that still needs to be fixed.

Okay, I'm too tired right now to rant. But I'm going to. And when I do it's going to be long. It's going to be hard. It's going to be a rant like you've never seen a rant before in your life.[Russell Beattie, posting at a temporary URL ]