Apparently I sent this to the wrong list first - I just went off the
information on the wiki site..
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Henrik Østerlund Gram <henrik.gram(a)gmail.com>
Date: May 15, 2005 6:06 AM
Subject: status and direction
To: developers(a)xwiki.org
Hello,
I've been looking for a wiki both for my personal use as a private
knowledge db and business use for the company I work for. Currently
we use the well-known phpWiki, which is fine in many respects but lack
1) attachments and 2) access restrictions which are crucial in both of
my uses. I stumbled across xwiki, installed it and it looks somewhat
promissing thus far. A few questions comes to mind:
1. Since the latest release is dated back in january, I'm wondering if
it is still being actively developed? How many are working on it?
2. I'm seeing a lot of errors in the log regarding xwiki's use of the
hibernate package; mostly assertion failures, 'Exception while
deleting object', nonthreadsafe access to session, ...
3. I'm also seeing these errors for every page every time:
05:36:40,456 WARN http-8080-Processor17
http://10.255.1.1:8080/xwiki/bin/view/Main/WebHome
XWikiStatsServiceImpl:addCookie:466 - Setting cookie
BPKBLIBSZICKFADT4TP9DBNFRR4EAKJY for name visitid with domain null and
path / and maxage -136366
05:36:40,458 WARN http-8080-Processor17
http://10.255.1.1:8080/xwiki/bin/view/Main/WebHome
XWikiStatsServiceImpl:findVisit:306 - Found visit with cookie
SSHDY9HF4LBBYCE8ACVJ5O2A5OEXVBEC in session
6288D7442AD591E4FED5FE4670386255 for request with cookie
BPKBLIBSZICKFADT4TP9DBNFRR4EAKJY
4. I'm a little confused about the access rights as they work right
now. Basicly what I'm looking for is being able have a bunch of
people devided into groups like 'sysadmins', 'sales' and 'support' -
for example. The sysadmins will have a private place to store
information about network configuration, fileservers, passwords, etc..
the sales people will read and update productinformation, notes about
customers, ... and the support people can see status reports from the
sysadmins but obviously not access sensetive information from
sysadmins or sales. Is this possible today? When I was trying to
make the wiki totally private, the only thing that happened was the
layout was screwed up, but the content was accessible.. what is the
difference between Space rights/prefs and Wiki rights/prefs btw?
The only 'major' drawback I've seen so far is that it seems really
slow... I don't know if that is because of the errors above or
something else. In any case, I think it has good potential and is
something I might like to contribute to. Is there a development
roadmap of sorts?
Thanks for listening :-)
Regards,
Henrik Østerlund Gram
Software & Network Engineer, Oslo, Norway
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ludovic Dubost [mailto:ludovic@users.forge.objectweb.org]
> Sent: mardi 10 mai 2005 23:18
> To: xwiki-commits(a)objectweb.org
> Subject: [xwiki-commits] r521 - in xwiki/trunk: . lib
> src/main/com/xpn/xwiki src/main/com/xpn/xwiki/api
> src/main/com/xpn/xwiki/plugin src/main/com/xpn/xwiki/plugin/alexa
> src/main/com/xpn/xwiki/plugin/calendar
> src/main/com/xpn/xwiki/plugin/flickr src/main/com/xpn/x
>
> Author: ludovic
> Date: 2005-05-10 23:17:30 +0200 (Tue, 10 May 2005)
> New Revision: 521
>
> Added:
> xwiki/trunk/lib/alexa.jar
> xwiki/trunk/lib/axis-1.2RC2.jar
> xwiki/trunk/lib/commons-discovery-0.2.jar
> xwiki/trunk/lib/flickrapi-1.0a7.jar
> xwiki/trunk/lib/flipper.jar
> xwiki/trunk/lib/googleadwords.jar
> xwiki/trunk/lib/googleapi.jar
> xwiki/trunk/lib/hibernate-3.0.3.jar
> xwiki/trunk/lib/ical4j-0.9.12.jar
> xwiki/trunk/lib/ipresolver.jar
> xwiki/trunk/lib/jaxrpc-1.1.jar
> xwiki/trunk/lib/mail-1.3.2.jar
[snip]
Are you sure all these jars are redistributable? I know for sure that Java
mail isn't (because we had the same issue in Maven land). What this means is
that anyone checking out xwiki will get the Jar even though they have not
downloaded it from Sun and not accepted its license...
It might be best to find some javamail alternative. Here are some:
- commons-net for example, but it's a lightweight version and it won't do
any fancy things
- GNU Javamail:
http://www.gnu.org/software/classpathx/javamail/javamail.html
- Tiger JMail: http://tjmail.sourceforge.net/ (but old and does not seem
maintained)
Thanks
-Vincent
Hi,
I think it might be interesting to have an integration with wikipedia where
words found on wiki pages could be highlighted and when the mouse is moved
over them, a popup box could open and display the wikipedia information.
This integration is done in Trillian IRC and it's quite nice (see attached
screenshot). I'm not sure how useful it is though but it's cool nonetheless
and shows an example of web service integration (in the loose sense).
In order to be performant it would have to be done in a separate thread
though and the underlining should probably be done independently of the
page's rendering (using javascript).
Maybe an idea for a xwiki hackathon?
-Vincent
