[TYPO3] Is DAM worth its use or is it dead?

[Michael Stucki]

Hi Dan,

> There was a move to make the DAM part of the core. How is that going?
> Can it be made a priority for 4.3?

No plans for 4.3 but worth a thought for later use. I don't think we need
all the document management features, but having an index of all the files
would allow us to use file referencing like it is currently done with
dam_ttcontent.

So my wish is to split up the functionality and move this part into the core
one day...

> In my opinion, the problems of complexity and lack of documentation will
> be solved by making the DAM part of the core.

How did you come to this conclusion? Sounds weird to me...

> It will also spike the development, which has been stagnant.

There's a team working on it, thought it is very small yet and proceeds
quite slow. I'm sure there will be a boost to this as soon as we have
released a first update and publically sent out a sign of life...

- michael

> Francois Suter wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>>> Where may I find names? Because TER always refers to René Fritz as
>>> author and as such it's not easy to find out who to contact in case of
>>> very specific questions. For instance, in my case I would like to get a
>>> better documentation for dam_indexing:
>>>
>>>
http://typo3.org/documentation/document-library/extension-manuals/dam_index/1.0.4/view/toc/0/
>>>
>>>
>>> I may take time and understand why it does not work on my server and
>>> then enhance the official documentation but how should I do it if the
>>> "author" is not here anymore? Does it mean nobody is entitled to update
>>> the extension? Who may I take contact with to actually contribute?
>> 
>> The entry point is really the DAM mailing list. I'm sure if you offer
>> some help the DAM team is bound to notice :-)
>> 
>> Cheers
>> 
>> François Suter
>>

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