I just sent in the August 2007 board report below, you can also find it here: http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/ROLLER/August+2007+Board+Report
Apache Roller has been making great progress over the past couple of months in new development. In addition to announcing our graduation with a brand new release of Roller 3.1 we have also done a tremendous amount of development for the Roller 4.0 release. Much of the new work involved use of other Apache projects, for example we migrated from Struts 1 to Struts 1, we upgraded to Velocity 1.5 and we completely replaced Hibernate with OpenJPA. We also upgraded from JDK 1.4.2 to Java SE 1.5. h3. Some post graduation work still TBD Apache Roller graduated back in March and announced graduation and the Apache Roller 3.1 release on April 23, 2007. However, we've still got some work to do. We're still waiting for our JIRA instance to be setup (see https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-813). We also need to change our downloads page (http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/ROLLER/Roller+Downloads) to make use of Apache Mirrors. We need volunteers to help with these tasks. h3. Apache Roller 3.1 completed, 3.1.1 RC2 ready for testing We shipped 3.1 on April 23, 2007. A number of significant problems (including an XSS bug) were found and fixed. We are now testing a fix release known as 3.1.1 RC2, made available August 12, 2007 (announcement here: http://tinyurl.com/34dq3l). h3. Apache Roller 4.0 RC1 available for testing Made available August 11, 2007 (announcement here: http://tinyurl.com/22wq7y). Major new release that upgrades Roller to Jave SE 5, Struts 2, Velocity 1.5 and OpenJPA. This is will be the first release that does not require Hibernate or any other LGPL code to run. h3. Community health There are two very active committers at this time who are very busy with new development, which is good. But we've been having some problems getting new releases tested and voted out the door and getting some of our other tasks done (e.g. getting setup to use the mirrors properly) so we still need to work on community development and growth. New contributors are appearing on the mailing list, submitting patches and detailed bug reports. Hopefully, some of these will show sustained interest and we'll see some committer nominations. Dave Johnson presented on *Roller and blogs as a web development platform* at Apachecon EU in May and will present the same talk (but updated for Roller 4.0) at Apachecon US in November (see also http://us.apachecon.com/us2007/program/talk/2023).
