February 2009 Board Report
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This is Roller's quarterly board report for February 2009. It covers
community health, status of our most recent release, work that has been
done in the trunk and plans for new work.
Status of work in the trunk
Below are the changes in the trunk since the last major release. In
December 2008, Dave Johnson proposed that the next major release of
Roller include these changes, enchanced Media Blogging, cluster-friendly
search and upgrades to the latest Struts and OpenJPA releases. His
proposal is here: Apache Roller 5.0 Release.
We added a new fully pluggable user management system and better support
for contributed by Dave Johnson working on Sun's social software for
Glassfish efforts.
Our Google Summer of Code student has completed OpenID support, using
Spring Security to do. We are currently evaluating the final patch.
Dave Johnson started working on upgrading from OpenJPA 0.9.7 to OpenJPA
1.0 but ran in to problems and has committed none of this work.
Allen Gilliland contributed his most recent code for Apache Roller
Planet, from his work on planets.sun.com. This is a separate application
from the Apache Roller Weblogger and has not yet been released.
Plans for new work in the trunk
Two San Jose State University (SJSU) students, Ganesh Mathrubootham and
Tanuja Varkanthe, are working on a two-semester project to improve
Roller's Media Blogging features. This includes better management of
media files images, video and audio files, new user interfaces for
browsing and selecting media files and more. They've been doing
extensive work on the Roller wiki to create a proposal and detailed
design for this work, which you can find here: Proposal Media Blogging
Support.
We created a branch for the development of these new features and In
late December 2008, Ganesh submitted and we accepted a patch that
includes new manager interfaces, POJOs, Struts actions and JSPs that
form the foundation for the Media Blogging work.
Status of Apache Roller 4.0
After learning of a security vulnerability in our 4.0 release, decided
it was time to make a release to include a fix for the security problem
plus the dozens of bug fixes we've made since 4.0 was released in
December 2007. The release announcement is here
http://markmail.org/message/zf3o5kx6omd3mhrv.
Community health
The community is doing well, but our committers are definitely not as
active as they were in the past and we need some new blood. We nominated
and voted in a new committer Ganesh Mathrubootham and there are several
other community members that may develop into new committers.
May 2009 Board Report
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This is Roller's quarterly board report for May 2009. It covers
community health, status of our most recent release, work that has been
done in the trunk and plans for new work.
Status of work in the trunk
(Unchanged since last report) Below are the changes in the trunk since
the last major release. In December 2008, Dave Johnson proposed that the
next major release of Roller include these changes, enchanced Media
Blogging, cluster-friendly search and upgrades to the latest Struts and
OpenJPA releases. His proposal is here: Apache Roller 5.0 Release.
We added a new fully pluggable user management system and better support
for contributed by Dave Johnson working on Sun's social software for
Glassfish efforts.
Our Google Summer of Code student has completed OpenID support, using
Spring Security to do. We are currently evaluating the final patch.
Dave Johnson started working on upgrading from OpenJPA 0.9.7 to OpenJPA
1.0 but ran in to problems and has committed none of this work.
Allen Gilliland contributed his most recent code for Apache Roller
Planet, from his work on planets.sun.com. This is a separate application
from the Apache Roller Weblogger and has not yet been released.
Plans for new work in the trunk
Two San Jose State University (SJSU) students, Ganesh Mathrubootham and
Tanuja Varkanthe, have completed a two-semester project to improve
Roller's Media Blogging features. This includes better management of
media files images, video and audio files, new user interfaces for
browsing and selecting media files and more. They've been doing
extensive work on the Roller wiki to create a proposal and detailed
design for this work, which you can find here: Proposal Media Blogging
Support.
We are preparing to merge this work into the Roller trunk during May 2009.
Community health
Status here is mostly unchanged since last report. The community is
doing well, but our committers are definitely not as active as they were
in the past and we need some new blood.
August 2009 Board Report
========================
This is Roller's quarterly board report for August 2009. It covers
community health, status of our most recent release, work that has been
done in the trunk and plans for new work.
Status of work in the trunk
Below are the changes in the trunk since the last report:
The new Media Blogging additions from Ganesh Mathrubootham (committer)
and Tanuja Varkanthe have been merged into trunk.
A patch from Nathan Beyer helped us to upgrade from OpenJPA 0.97 to
OpenJPA 1.2 (not as easy as one might think).
Plans for new work in the trunk
Current plan is to release the the current trunk plus small improvements
and bug fixes as Roller 5.0. Here is the current Roller 5.0 propsal on
the Roller wiki:
http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/x/9aQB
Community health
Status here is mostly unchanged since last report. The community is
doing well, but our committers are definitely not as active as they were
in the past and we need some new blood.
Dave Johnson's proposal for a What's New in Roller 5.0 talk was accepted
for ApacheConUS 2009.
November 2009 Board Report
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Status of work in the trunk
All features in the Roller 5.0 proposal have been implemented.
Roller 5.0 Proposal on Wiki
http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/x/9aQB
Screencast - showing new media blogging features
http://www.screencast.com/users/snoopdave/folders/Jing/media/aadab858-f5ed-44b4-9fc8-0757f5a1cb34
JIRA Release Notes - issues resolved since last release
http://bit.ly/3CUxm0
Recent activities
We have just started to make Roller 5.0 builds available for testing,
the first one is Roller 5.0 beta 1. Once we've gotten enough feedback on
the new features we'll start creating Release Candidate builds for a
final Roller 5.0 release.
Mail thread - Roller 5.0 beta 1 test build
http://markmail.org/thread/rwk6pj4voxbyuaj3
Status of the community
Mailing list traffic is light but steady. Dave Johnson presented at
ApacheCon US 2009 on the topic of What's new in Roller 5.0.
