[TYPO3-dam] dam_downloads - future and features

[Nico Potvin]

Hi everyone,

Any news/progress on this initiative?
Feature list?

greets

nico

On 27 Nov 2006, at 08:46, Daniel Thomas wrote:

> 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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