Blogging Roller

Here's an update on recent Roller developments and mailing list activity.

Roller 2.1 was planned for late December 2005. We had it ready to go and deployed it to some production sites but there were a couple of loose ends that prevented an "Apache Roller" release and then the holidays hit. We decided to postpone 2.1 until the end of January and add in the features we had planned for 2.2. The Roller 2.1 release proposal summarizes the new features planned. Pardon the mess, it's still under development.

Roller 2.0.1 is ready for release. It is intended for PostgreSQL users who are upgrading from Roller 1.X and if you're not a PostgreSQL user you can safely ignore it.

In other news...

Elias has updated the Weblog Tags proposal, originally written by Allen, and claims to have a significant chunk of IBM code ready to contribute. Tags may be in sooner rather than later, so we'll have to figure out how to manage that in SVN. Dave Levy has also joined the tags conversation.

I've been corresponding off-list with Craig Russell, who is implementing a JDO backend for Roller. After some questions about getting Netbeans setup to debug the unit tests and about the Roller manager interfaces, he's off and running.

A new contributor on the Roller-dev list, Sean Gilligan, contributed a proposal and a patch for Really Simple Discovery (RSD) and Allen helped get it into the Roller 2.1 codebase.

Migs Paraz, whose Roller-based geo-aggregator I mentioned before, is continung it contribute to the Roller-dev list and is working on enhancing Roller's planet-style aggregator so that new planet groups can be defined for the front page via the UI.

Thats all for now.