[TYPO3-dam] DAM and TYPO3 4.5

[ben van 't ende]

Heyla Francois,

DAM development never really took of. The 'team' basically does maintenance.
There is a lot of work being done for FAL atm. After FAL is more or less
finished it makes sense to review DAM and have scheduled meetings like we have
with many projects now to ensure development.

I think your suggestion to roll at DAM 1.2 with fixes for 4.5 is a very good
one. I have no idea what the current issues regarding 4.5 are.

@Dan: Do you have an overview of what needs to be done to get DAM ready for 4.5?
We could put some effort into that.

gRTz

ben



On 13/12/10 11:43, François Suter wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>> TYPO3 4.5 will introduce a File Abstraction Layer that will replace a
>> part of DAM's functionality. As far as I know Dan is part of the FAL
>> project.
>>
>> We now have several issues in the bugtracker concering changes in TYPO3
>> 4.5. ATM we are working on two branches:
>>
>> - Trunk is DAM 1.2dev, open for new features, requiring TYPO3 4.4 (or 4.3?)
>>
>> - Branch 1.1 is DAM 1.1.8dev, bugfixes only, minimum (still supported)
>> TYPO3 version 4.2.
> 
> It's not yet sure that FAL will indeed be part of 4.5, so we can't really bet on
> it. OTOH DAM 1.2 is long overdue IMO. So I would propose to try and roll out 1.2
> as soon as possible with all the necessary fixes for 4.5, but *without* FAL even
> if it makes it into 4.5 (I hope that would be possible). Then work could start
> on DAM 1.3 or 2.0, which would incorporate FAL. I'm afraid that trying to build
> FAL support into the DAM will push back a new version to some very late future,
> especially given the very low recent activity in DAM development (no reproaches,
> just a fact).
> 
> I'm not part of the team, so that's just my opinion ;-)
> 
> Cheers
> 


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