This question is a bit subjective in nature, but I am unsure if there is a better place to ask this in the family of sites.
Is anybody using the new Orchard CMS on a public facing site?
For those that don't know, Orchard is basically the replacement for Oxite. It is an ASP.NET MVC based CMS.
I've pulled it down and compiled it, but it seems pretty far away from being used on an actual site. If you are using it, would love to know.
Hey, Yeah we have started to evaluate it at work. Its quite nice, but they do tend to check stuff in without concidering the conciquences of if other things break.
The Templates and the plug in architechture is really cool, as they use something called zones. We took an existing MVC site we built about 8 months ago and decided to try and do the bulk in Orchard, and it took us 1 morning, we were quite shocked by the results, that in one morning it took us something that had taken quite a lot longer.
I used Oxite, but the latest code doesnt compile anymore so i gave up and moved to orchard.
I have started to evaluate it at work an it looks really promising so far.
I think the Orchard team have put down a great job with the core system of orchard so far and I will absolutely start using it as content-management-/blog-system for my personal projects.
I think/feel Orchard is heavily influenced by word press with the administration gui and workflow, so if you ever tried word press and liked it you should give orchard a try.
I am actually using the CMS to put together a quick site for our cafe. It is at a rather advanced state and I have been able to handle most of our needs right from the posted code. The documentation is a bit weak so its hard to understand how to do things, but its definitely worth a try. I love the way they have implemented zones - easy drop in of code to replace built-in functionality.
I've recently started looking at Orchard CMS and really like it. I like their architecture choices - thats what attracted me to it.
It is being actively worked on by the developers..
The only missing feature holding me back is data migrations. As Orchard is changing so frequently it's key that you can export your data, update Orchard and then import your data back in.
They're currently working on this feature in this iteration and it should be available on 2 July 2010.
I do currently have a test site running the MIX version of Orchard, but the latest version in download source fixes some key bugs in particular this one.
I still would only use Orchard for my own personal sites. It's still in alpha and not ready for client projects. It's already looking great though and promises to be an excellent, flexible and good to develop against CMS.
It would appear that all that is sorted now, including the bug you referenced.
Data migrations is there, I m still a little hesitant over the actual implementation of the Data migration stuff.. but then again i haven’t played with the latest code set much myself.