How stable is Alfresco Share Community Edition?

[goldmar]

Hello guys,

we want to use Alfresco at our company and we've started a test project this week. Since we only need a collaboration tool with Document Management capabilities, we've decided to use Alfresco Share. My problem right now is that it seems to run extremely unstable. Until now we've already had a lot of problems:

• Site invites don't work out of the box, users often can't accept the invites (we could fix this issue by using a workaround)


• Using Folder Rules in Alfresco Share breaks the navigation ("Recently Modified" in the Document Library does not work - we did not find a way to fix this but it seems to be a known issue)


• Thumnails don't work. A lot of users seem to be experiencing this problem.


• Many features seem to be incomplete (e.g. Groups - if I add a group to a site, I can't see which members can actually access the site, I even can't check which users are inside that group - it's only possible by using the admin console)


• Integration seems to be weak, too - why aren't due dates of tasks or workflow assignments automatically added to the calendar?


• and finally, this is the most annoying thing and makes Alfresco Share sort of unusable: it crashes all the time. One time it happened after trying to move some files. Another time it happened after I deleted one file. I don't know why exactly it happens but these seem to be different bugs. Afterwards I can't use Alfresco Share anymore and get the "Wrapped Exception (with status template) …" error all the time. It goes away after restarting Alfresco with a full reindex but after restarting Alfresco about 3-5 times today, this started to annoy me really hard.

We're using Alfresco 3.3G Community Edition.

What do you think? Are there any people here who use Alfresco Share in a productive environment? Why does it crash all the time? Is the Enterprise Edition more stable? Right now trying out the Community Edition got me really scared… it feels like a beta version.

Regards,
Mark

[kevinr]

Good to know. FYI the 3.4.b community version of Alfresco, coming shortly, contains *many* bug fixes (from the merged 3.3 enterprise branch) and improvements. This should be a very nice release. It also includes significant performance improvements (at least 30% for common use cases) and uses approx 50% less temp java heap memory during general usage (compared to 3.3G) - we hope you like it!

Cheers,

Kev

[gnyce]

Can't wait for 3.4b then!  Saw a recent build of it, looking good….

[goldmar]

Sounds interesting! 🙂

[kevinr]

I am reliably informed that it will be available later today…

Kev