Blogging Roller

It's status time again. Quick summary: last week I spent most of my time on Roller 1.2 related issues and the Apache move. This week, I'll get back to the Roller 2.0/group blogging work.

On the Roller 1.2 front, I made some small enhancements to the Planet Roller aggregator and did some work to make the blogs.sun.com front pages a little easier to maintain. I also did a number of deployments last week to our internal blog server for testing.

Unfortunately, changing the front-pages in a Roller site is not quite as easy as changing a blog's theme. The front-pages are JSP, so you can't edit them through the Roller UI and folks who don't know Java and JSP have a hard time making changes. A number of people have suggested the idea of having a blog serve as the front pages of Roller and I think that's a great idea.

Now let's turn to Apache. Our Subversion repository space is ready at the Apache Incubator, but we're not. Since the Roller 1.2 release is coming up soon, last week we decided to keep main-line Roller development in CVS. Once the release is ready, we'll move to Subversion and branch 1.2 from there. Also: our new mailing lists are ready at Apache, but we haven't made the move yet.

Roller 2.0 work got short shrift last week, due to Roller 1.2 and related issues. Since Roller 2.0 lives in its own branch and Apache won't allow us to bring branches and history along with us (for a number of reasons, some legal), I had to do some extra work to recreate the Roller 2.0 branch in Subversion. I managed to complete that work and resume work on group blogging. I'm hoping that I can spend the rest of this week on group blogging.

That's all folks. I'm going to cover RSS and Atom in Action status in a separate post.

UPDATE: I completely forgot that we released Roller 1.1.2 last week, a minor bug fix release.