Akismet works
Since I upgraded this site to Roller 3.2-dev, with pluggable comment validators and Akismet support, not a single spam has gotten through the system. Over the weekend I saw 20-30 email messages like this:
This comment failed validation for these reasons:
* Akismet service (akismet.com) says comment is spam
* Trackback from site/page that does not link to your weblog entry
Brisa wrote: [Trackback] nothing here
That's music to my ears. Die spammers die!
Voting for Roller graduation
The Roller team voted last week for graduation to top-level project status. The next step is to call for a vote on the Apache Incubator mailing list. I'm hopeful that the nearly two year journey that started when Danese Cooper sent me off to ApacheCon US 2004 in Vegas is nearly over. So far, life at Apache has been great for Roller and it can only get better with graduation. Wish us luck...