Re: New CMS/Wiki ?

"Mark Guertin" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:BB30680D.78A%[email protected]...
> Hey all
>
> Not sure if anyone has mentioned this yet, but I came across this
_amazing_
> system last night that I think would suit our needs very well, it can
> be found at:
>
> http://tikiwiki.sourceforge.net/
>
> Mark

I support the idea of using Tiki for everything it is suitable enough...
Actually, I am evaluating it for deployment on my company's network for the
"perfect" WikiWiki I was looking. I like TWiki (http://twiki.org) too, as it
has lots of Wiki features/pluggins (particularly, it supports inline
image/drawing editing), but it store everything in the filesystem and it's
written in Perl (I find PHP a better tool for this particular job, even if
you're using mod_perl).

When I saw MoinMoin as our Wiki, I confess I was a little disapointed...
It's good, but I really think there are better options and am happy that the
community stepped forward and is considering a change! Wow, that's
openness... (Yeah, as a user I like Gentoo, but I always felt there was
something wrong in there - this project is so much different :-)

Besides the a well featured Wiki, Tiki has the following things I find
relevant for Zynot's webservices:
- HTML and Dynamic HTML Pages (ie: Live Updates!)
- CMS (Articles and Submissions)
- RSS Feeds (linking news from other relevant sites?)
- Editable Drawings and Figures (for quick design sketching on the Wiki, and
maybe more)
- File/Image Galleries (accessible from Wiki and other places)
- Weblogs/Journals
- Trackers (surely not up to par with RT, Bug/Issuezilla or Scarab, see more
below...)
- FAQs
- Comments
- Polls/Surveys/Quizzes (useful to gather opinions...)
- Forums (I guess it could replace phpBB, not sure if there is an import
mechanism)
- Web Chat/Internal Messaging  (IRC and bots may be a better for this)
- Newsletters
- Calendar (community events, for instance)
- Webmail (for @zynot.org addresses maybe)
- User Tasks/Notepad/Files (not sure if appropriate or relevant)
- Links Directory (a dmoz-like categorized link directory... may be useful)
- and more...

(I'm good and copying & pasting ;-)

Last, but not least, a feature in the forthcomming release 1.7 (scheduled
for mid-July) there will be a (guess what...) full-fledged *WORKFLOW*
engine! I'm not sure yet, but this maybe be a great plus for managing things
like distribution release readiness cycles and a lot of other
business/development processes within Zynot.

Another thing I don't know is if this kind of tool could be useful for a
issue/bug/request/etc tracking system... But maybe a specifically tailored
solution for this stuff is better (RT, Bugzilla, Issuezilla or Scarab).
Comments anyone?

/dima