[TYPO3] Is DAM worth its use or is it dead?

[Dan Osipov]

We've all got SVN, but not all have write access (and not all should).

Who is the project leader, and how active is he/she in the DAM development?

FYI, DAM 1.1 release candidate was released over a year ago, and we have 
still to see the final version. Let's fix all the bugs, and release the 
final version already. And then, put together a roadmap for 1.2

I'll spend some time looking at the code, bugtracker, docs, etc this 
week, and will try to contribute as much as possible.

Dan Osipov
Calkins Media
http://phillyburbs.com/

ben van 't ende [netcreators] wrote:
> Erik Svendsen wrote:
>> Hello Benjamin,
> 
> Hey Benni, Erik, Guys,
> 
> DAM is absolutely an essential part of an Enterprise CMS. We implement 
> it on a lot of sites already in combination with mm_filelist that really 
> is a superb extension for showing records from DAM. A lot has improved 
> towards 1.1. Netcreators also has some projects now where we can develop 
> DAM a little further and work towards a 1.1 final. I am making a list of 
> that now. I have seen some interesting remarks in this thread. Two 
> things are indeed skinning and customizing the backend forms to make it 
> a little more userfriendly. We'll consider that after 1.1. I have to 
> laugh a bit about the remark that it is barely usable. Usability can be 
> improved, but Rene did a great job building DAM as it is.
> 
> Anyway I hope Benni can join development. We have got it all in SVN. 
> So........
> 
> gRTz
> 
> ben
> 
> 
> 
>>> personally, I want to develop the DAM to finally make this thing good.
>>> Unfortunately my time was limited until now (finally back to speed in
>>> TYPO3 development), so I look for TYPO3 projects that sponsor my
>>> development in the DAM extension (it is truly a beast), to fit it
>>> nicer to the actual core and make it.
>>>
>>
>> Nice! I suppose you are in contact with Michiel (of course you are). 
>> The funny part of the story is that DAM was a joint idea between Rene 
>> and Ben, as far as I know. And I have probably the opportunity to 
>> sponsor some work.
>>
>>> I have to use it and it's a shame to show this to my clients since
>>> it's barely usable (in terms of usability), but I need it for the
>>> metadata.
>>>
>>> Anyway: Yes, I'd be interested in René's initial presentation. Do you
>>> have a link or something?
>>>
>>> Fairly enough, I do not recommend DAM yet, but I hope it gets
>>> developed in the right direction so people can finally like this part
>>> of the TYPO3 project as well.
>>>
>>> BTW: I think there is no discussion if it's a sysext or not, the core
>>> team has a lot of other work to do, and this way the DAM development
>>> would even be slowed down a lot as well, so I don't think this will
>>> (and should) ever be a sysext. With making DAM integrate nicer to the
>>> TYPO3 core (which the DAM team will do in the future) there is no need
>>> to have it as a sysext.
>>>
>>
>> For everyone interested, http://www.linnearad.no/fileadmin/dam.wmv
>>
>> It's about 73 MB, in 320 x 240 pixels and not very good quality. On 
>> TYCON3 in 2005 (renamed to T3CON after that) the capturing of all the 
>> speeches was only an experiment. Length, nearly 1 1/2 hour.
>>
>> Else, I agree when it comes to usability.
>> WBR,
>> Erik Svendsen
>> www.linnearad.no
>>
>>
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