[TYPO3-dam] dam_downloads - future and features

[Daniel Thomas]

Hi Karl-Ernst,

> Hi!
>
> Recently I mentioned that I´m working on a modified version of
> dam_downloads and immediately some people asked me not to upload  
> another
> extension for dam download files to the TER.
> They are right! So I´d like to start a discussion about the future of
> this extension or even more general about a "standard FrontEnd plugin
> for DAM".
>
> These are my points:
>
> - DAM is a great and important aspect of TYPO3
> - dealing with DAM 1.0.x felt like building a house on sand
> - DAM 1.1 is on the way - giving me the hope that "building on a rock"
> will be possible (which leads me to the question: What about the FE  
> side
> of DAM?)
> - there are already many DAM FE-Plugins in the TER (dam_downloadlist,
> dd_dam_gallery, kdo_dam_photogallery, sici_damdl, mm_dam_filelist,
> hl_dam_gallery, devable_gallery, dam_downloads, ...?)
> - dam_downloads is the one that meets my needs in many projects
> - I don´t know if Daniel Thomas is going to continue development of
> dam_downloads
> - I know some people who were/are doing their own extension/version of
> dam_downloads
>
> The question is:
> Wouldn´t it be great to have a stable, well documented, "fully  
> featured"
> (whatever that means - maybe meeting 95% of the amount of our demands)
> and extensible (to add the missing 5%) frontend plugin for  
> galleries and
> download-lists using DAM?
> (OK I know that all of you will agree...)
>
> So the better question is how to get there?
>
> To be more precise (I´m trying to get the "big picture"):
>
> @René Fritz
> You provided some helpful sample plugins in DAM 1.1(beta01). Are there
> going to be more examples? Are there any plans regarding this kind of
> "standard DAM FE plugin"?
>
> @Daniel Thomas:
> Do you have any plans regarding dam_downloads development?
>
> @Everyone who modified dam_downloads (or similar extensions):
> What is the status of your project? Is there / will there be anything
> published in TER?
>
> Hmm - I was just on the way to ask for features (@everyone), but I  
> think
>   this would go beyond the scope...
>
> So I´d like to open the discussion sending special thanks to René  
> Fritz
> for "doing that DAM thing" and Daniel Thomas for the current
> "dam_downloads".
>

I have no focus on the extension. If there is a respective motion I  
am happy to have the extension key transferred.

Greetings Daniel

> Greetings,
> Karl-E.
>
>
>
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