15 May
2005
15 May
'05
9:40 p.m.
Hi Henrik,
You are in the right list now.. See my responses below..
Henrik Østerlund Gram a écrit :
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?
The project is very active. It is not only an open source project but
also is backed by a commercial strategy of support and services as well
as the XWiki.com hosting service.
We haven't released some code recently because we have been working on
getting some clients on-board which have financed some specific features
on the software.
However we have been very active recently to add many new features and
bug fixes in the product.. We are very close to a new release which will
have many new things: Locking, LDAP authentication, Table of Content,
Mail and LDAP APIs, additional web services APIs (for use for a
demonstration at the XTech 2005 conference on May 26th).
Some of the features have been added by contributors. We have currently
a few contributors but which are very bright and efficient :)
We hope to have more very soon and we would love to have you on board
this very exciting project.
The commercial company which I created a year ago to work on XWiki now
has 3 full-time people and 2 interns.
Needless to say that even having a commercial strategy we are commited
to the Open Source model.
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, ...
These errors are non critical and happen in the statistics module.. I
haven't had time to look for the problem and since it was non critical I
had more important things to look at.
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
Same thing..
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?
I need some more time to help you out here.. Check out the FAQ on
xwiki.com and if you still can't make it, contact me by IM (you'll find
my contact information on the Contacts page on xwiki.com)
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?
There is a lot of stuff happening under the hood.. Now I would like to
know what you call slow ?
Maybe you have some other issues because normally the response time is
pretty good once the server is first started.
Concerning a developpement roadmap we do have some priorities and some
stuff going on:
- Jeremi (one of the interns) is working on Application Packages
- The other intern is doing a study on usability which will trigger
some work we will need to do (design + usability)
- Jens Kramer is working on the email notification plugin (there is a
first version available)
- Jiri wanted to work on an offline client
- We'll be working on performance & scalability + some new stuff for a
more efficient storage model
- Otherwise making it easier to develop small application is one of
the main priorities
- Being as good if not better than the "standard" wikis out there
(MediaWiki, TWiki, SnipSnap, Confluence) on all wiki features is also a
priority
Many requested features are listed in the dev zone on XWiki.com
But we still need some time to organize ourselves to create the
roadmap.. The team wasn't that big so we spend more time coding than
organizing..
Once this release is out the door we will spend some time organizing..
Ludovic
Thanks for listening :-)
Regards,
Henrik Østerlund Gram
Software & Network Engineer, Oslo, Norway
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