Road map and release info update?

[ftoth]

Hi all,

Can someone from Alfresco let us know the current release plans?
We all realize nothing is set in stone, but the current road map is
way out of date.

Personally, I've hit some show-stopping bugs in 2.1 community and I'm
trying to figure out what to do. Should I move to bleeding edge 2.9B?

Or, if a new community release is right around the corner, I'd be better
off waiting.

I'm sure others are in the same situation. In fact, I encourage other
community users to speak up on this issue. Are you using Alfresco in production?
I'm starting to wonder if it's even possible without the enterprise version.

Thanks,

Fred

[hvyas]

I am interested in this too. Can somebody from alfresco care to drop a line on this topic?

[hvyas]

It seems nobody is interested in 2.x  community release info. Anybody?

[callermd]

The lack of interest in a stable community release is highly disappointing to say the least.  It seems that the Alfresco strategy is to force users onto Enterprise by simply not providing a stable Community release.  While I understand there may be legitimate short term business reasons for the decision, in the longer term, it will drive many users off the Alfresco platform.  I, for one, feel slightly betrayed at the clumsy attempt to rebrand what was originally billed as a community release (i.e.  stable, but released earlier than the enterprise) into a labs, experimental branch.  This is a major switch since it forces everyone who was using Alfresco into production to either abandon Alfresco or purchase the Enterprise version.  Because of the change in direction we are strongly leaning towards abandoning the Alfresco platform.

[tarkadu]

The steps towards "labs"-versions with lots of new collaboration features makes me wonder which community/labs release of Alfresco we should use for pure document management. As we're using other tools for such things as project management, wikis and on, we actually need Alfresco ONLY as a document management tool. No need for us to have our document management software also doing web content management either. Probably most of the Alfresco users out there have a different position and are happy about all the new fancy stuff that is currently being included in Alfresco.
However, I wonder which release you would suggest if the mere aim of using Alfresco is document management at a maximum of stability. I'm asking this because we have the same thoughts that the previous speaker in this thread brought up to the point and because of the new labs release which is even more pointing into this direction.

[mabayona]

Well, if you JUST want Alfesco as DM, you can use almost any version you please.

2.1 has robust DM features, 2.9 as well and sure 3.0. For just DM, if you can wait one or two months I would go straight to 3.0 and would consider either the 2.X web client or DoCASU (3.0 based from Optaros) which is easy to use and quick (JS+ajax).

Anyway 2.1 is OK and, if you need quota, 2.9