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On Jun 24, 2012, at 3:31 PM, Glen Mazza <[email protected]> wrote: > I think that's Roller's biggest problem right now with its adoption, namely > the lack of a community service providing hosting for it. Perhaps it didn't > work for DZone (JRoller hosters) because they weren't shutting down inactive > blogs (maybe hundreds create a "Hello World!" blog entry and ignore their > blog forever after), bloating the administrative load, perhaps also in not > requiring a blogroll linkage back to its site. To fix the first problem, > maybe it would be good if Roller had an "auto-delete" feature, deleting all > blogs that haven't had a new entry after an administrator-defined number of > months; the second, giving the administrator an ability to force a blogroll > entry or some other advertisement on everybody's blog, pointing back to the > hoster. > > As for working at a company that offers Roller hosting, I suspect most devs > try not to keep blogs with their company if they can avoid it, because people > switch from company to company and want to take their blogs with them. For > that reason, people might be reluctant to ask their companies to host Apache > Roller even if they prefer it. The alternative for people in my shoes, > paying for Tomcat hosting, is time-consuming and not cost-effective (having > each user individually pay for Tomcat hosting just to host one blog is > overkill.) > > I've used Roller for six years and am quite pleased with it--Google Blogger > holds my hand too much and is too restrictive, but having looked at it again > last week, I can see that Blogger has much improved over the last time I > looked at it (2008), so switching is probably doable for me. > > Glen > > > On 06/24/2012 02:43 PM, Dave wrote: >> I don't know of any other public Roller hosting services. >> >> If you are really desperate for Roller you could get a job at Oracle >> and get a blog on the Roller server at blogs.oracle.com ;-) >> >> - Dave >> >> >> On Sun, Jun 24, 2012 at 2:05 PM, Glen Mazza<[email protected]> wrote: >>> JRoller has long deprecated their service; they're stuck on 3.1 and not >>> accepting new accounts. Is anyone aware of another community blogging >>> service that hosts using Apache Roller? I couldn't find anything. If not >>> I'll need to transfer probably to Google's Blogger service. >>> >>> Glen >>> >>> On 06/24/2012 01:03 PM, Dave wrote: >>>> New release: Apache Roller 5.0.1 is now available on Apache mirrors >>>> world-wide and you can find it here: >>>> >>>> http://roller.apache.org/downloads.html >>>> >>>> This release fixes two security vulnerabilities in Roller, listed below: >>>> CVE-2012-2380: Apache Roller Cross-Site-Resource-Forgery (XSRF) >>>> vulnerability >>>> CVE-2012-2381: Apache Roller Cross-Site-Scripting (XSS) vulnerability >>>> >>>> Because the above are serious security vulnerabilities, we recommend >>>> that all sites running Apache Roller upgrade to this new release as >>>> soon as possible. >>>> >>>> Thanks, >>>> Dave >>>> >>>> >>> >>> -- >>> Glen Mazza >>> Talend Community Coders - coders.talend.com >>> blog: www.jroller.com/gmazza >>> >> >> > > > -- > Glen Mazza > Talend Community Coders - coders.talend.com > blog: www.jroller.com/gmazza >
