Modules

I've made two alfa releases of the module, more on the way. The module is still in alfa for three main reasons:

• would love more feedback
• more features need to be implemented
• there are known bugs affecting installation edge cases

Currently implemented features

• Directories - implemented based on taxonomy

I uploaded a simple file/document management module. I consider it a pre-beta quality, so you won't get it through the project interface, just cvs. It targets D5 at the moment, but is trivial to port to D6.

There are quite a few more things I want to add to it. Some of them are probably going to end as extension modules.

Why just another module doing something like file management?

• no dependencies outside core
• upload.module might be a hack, but it supports revisions and other goodies
• taxonomy is a good analogy for folders

After reading Hariska2@drupal.org's comment about creating a rudimentary DMS module, I was thinking about wanting just such a thing. (It is part of the reason for establishing this group.)

However, much of the functionality already exists. I want to make sure that if I aid in the creation of a new module for document management that that module doesn't totally overlap existing functionality to much. However, there are some pretty significant improvements that I think could be made. I will commence with suggesting the things that already exist and then consider what is missing.

This is a proposal on how to use Organic Groups to create work sites for collaboration.