New subject: [xwiki-dev] status and direction

15 May 2005

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 &lt;henrik.gram(a)gmail.com&gt;
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