Hello Scott, similar situation here - small consulting shop running a couple of XWiki instances here since ~2 years. Sort of love-hate relationship.
What worries me most is that's quite cumbersome yet almost impossible to create a sleek skin without a routined designer in your team. I am kind of envious about the sleek wordpress designs of other peoples interactive sites where you can pick a design from the many free (and commercial templates). Skin creation is sort of moving target as it changes from version to version meaning migration efforts of a customized site cannot be predicted. Some people suggested some time ago to add support for design creation tools like Artisteer but that's obviously not on the roadmap. OTOH it fits in our consulting repertoire Java Spring Postgres Tomcat and I think we will still go ahead with it. FWIW one of our playground sites is teamsched.com the 'docs' part is powered by XWiki. have fun Andreas Am 29.12.2010 23:02, schrieb Scott Serr: > Greetings XWiki Users, > > We are a small company of 3 people. For internal use and portal, I've > rolled out Trac... Then Redmine... then back to Trac. I have fond > memories of my Trac install and usage 3-4 years at "the big company" but > now that the 3 of us are on our own it doesn't seem to be that helpful. > Interconnecting Wiki, Issues/Tickets, and SCM Change Sets has great > powers in Trac. But we don't seem to be taking advantage of that now. > > A year ago, I rolled out Plone for our external web. I managed to tweak > an attractive Skin/Theme. I added necessary content. Now it sits -- > getting old and tired. > > I'm starting to evaluate XWiki. So many options on a page is a bit > overwhelming, but other than that it looks very usable. My idea is to > merge our external web and internal portal -- so there isn't such a > distinct line drawn between our knowledge base and our customer facing > pages. I think we can manage (Trac) Issues/Tickets less formally on a > wiki page. The SCM integration was nice, but a simple Source Repository > Viewer might be all we need. > > We are all familiar with Java and normally use Linux. The WebDav "fs" > features look nice. > > I'm concerned about vitality. Maybe half of the "references" for XWiki > are stale -- site being dead or running something else now. > > I'm concerned about security. > > I'm concerned about resource footprint. (I imagine it's just App Server > + a little, but migrating to a VPS would costly.) > > Maybe I need some encouragement as I go along. :) And ideas about how > to make pages look less busy. > > Thanks, > Scott > > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users > _______________________________________________ users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users
