Blogging Roller: Warning: disturbance in the source

Warning: disturbance in the source

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?

Dave Johnson in Roller • 🕒 03:49AM Jan 05, 2003

Tags: Roller

Comments:

I think it's good to go with a 1.0 right now! It's got way more features (and less bugs) than a traditional 1.0 application. We can always do a bunch of 1.0, 1.1, 1.2, etc. Why does the Java community insist on having 1.x versions of everying (i.e. Struts 1.1, Java 1.4)? I'm no versioning expert, but I think folks are more inclined to use a 4.0 product, just from experience.

Posted by Matt Raible on January 05, 2003 at 06:58 PM EST #

I had no idea you were such a marketeer. Forget 1.0, lets call it Roller Turbo 8000 LXi ;-)

Posted by Dave Johnson on January 05, 2003 at 09:04 PM EST #

I think open source developers are generally extremely reluctant to go to version 1.0. Usually it's "Features X, Y and Z need to be done", but when you dig you'll find that X, Y and Z were first proposed around version 0.50 or so. :-) In general I think it's part of the perfectionist tendency rearing its head. For me, if a project has been around for some time with regular updates I have zero problem using it -- version 1.0 is just one higher than 0.99...

Posted by Chris Winters on January 08, 2003 at 02:46 AM EST #