[TYPO3-dam] Any new news?

[Patrick Gaumond]

Daniel, Ben, René and others,

I just need to share my thoughts about this.

First, I'm very new to actually using DAM but have followed the effort 
since it was first published as a project years ago.

Yes I'm talking about: 
http://typo3.org/development/projects/digital-asset-management/

And sadly, I must say that I share most Ben's fears as René like Kasper 
have made amazing stuff for TYPO3 in the past but both had their 
"disappearing" period for too much time to bring confidence into 
viability of those "corner stone" projects.

I remember seeing a brand new release of TYPO3 3.6 and then Kasper is on 
vacation and not visible for 2 months (at least).

We've also seen René doing update on almost a daily schedule then... 
Silence for months. I don't want this to look like personal attacks! I 
don't want to know why people disappear, it's just "factual".

Daniel must remember how much I care for perceptions in general in the 
TYPO3 project. I also understand that Ekki's email is suppose to address 
those fears but still, as long as DAM isn't in Core (and SVN!) and 
supported by a team (more than 2 people), I will probably get some doubt 
about support in the long run.

The TYPO3 core has been sent to SVN and a Core Team has taken 
maintenance and I think that no one can disagree that features and bug 
fixing is in a weaker state that before.

Kasper still produce core-code and commit his stuff. He still has some 
kind of veto status (see recent workspace and pagetree work) and this is 
all fine.

DAM was supposed to be put into core more than a year ago (for 4.0 ? 
can't remember) and I still think it's the way to go if TYPO3 don't want 
to loose the pole in Enterprise where DAM is more likely to be a central 
issue.

Right now my experience tell me that people want to use Alfresco 
(current trend in North America at least) and the Alfresco people are 
trying to add CMS stuff into their solution. We should put effort into 
making DAM rock solid and features-a-plenty as much as possible and we 
must prepare the ground for more than 2 developers...

At the end, all I still want is that TYPO3 gets better.

Have a great weekend anyone! (sorry for the lengthy answer)

Patrick