Blogging Roller

Matt Raible: Upgrading Roller and Happiness. I've been meaning to upgrade this site to use the latest Roller CVS source for quite some time (about a month), but haven't got around to it. However, Dave and Lance have been checking in enhancements like mad lately, so I don't know if it's such a good idea.

Yep, now is not the time to grab Roller from CVS and upgrade your Roller-based weblog. I'm in slash-and-burn, rip-and-replace, and code-away-the-night mode, and upgrading Roller right now is not the path to happiness. Wait a couple of days until things settle down a bit.

Matt also has some cool ideas about the Rollers comments feature, which still needs some work. He also wonders what defines Roller 1.0. That is a good question.

I like the philosophy of under promise and over deliver, and in this case I think that means that we should announce plans only for the next release, which in our case is Roller 0.9.7. I also like the philosophy of release early and release often, and in this case I think that means we need to try to polish up a 0.9.7 release in the next month or so.

I'm not sure exactly what features we need in Roller to call it Roller 1.0, but I do think that we will know when we are there. What features do you think are must-haves for Roller 1.0?