[TYPO3-dam] DAM and TYPO3 4.5

[Dan Osipov]

I'll review the issues in the backtracker and in the team list before 
4.5 is officially released (and hopefully sooner :))

On 12/13/10 8:01 AM, ben van 't ende wrote:
> 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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