Comments on: A Great Joomlatools Summer

By: Johan Janssens

Johan Janssens — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 19:40:00 +0000

Good news : http://blog.joomlatools.eu/2011/11/meet-fileman-and-logman.html

In a follow up blog post we will do a detailed feature overview of FILEman and LOGman and how this fits into the bigger picture for DOCman 2.0.

By: Johan Janssens

Johan Janssens — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 19:34:00 +0000

Hi Rick, thanks for the feedback. To answer your questions :

- I can re-assure you that development of DOCman 2.0 is well under way. Writing great software takes time. We don’t want to settle for anything less then that.

- The member center and the switch to the new subscription system was a needed step to allow us to release and support more then one extension.

If you feel that DOCman 2.0 will not be delivered in the next 12 months then you are free to wait until we have deserved your trust it will be. We are definitely up for the challenge.

We just released a blog post with an update about the progress we are making and the announcement of two new extensions FILEman and LOGman. Here is the link : http://blog.joomlatools.eu/2011/11/meet-fileman-and-logman.html

Keep the feedback coming.

By: Rick Stoffiere

Rick Stoffiere — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 16:13:00 +0000

I share Telaran’s feelings completely. There was simply NO better document manager for Joomla 1.5. I am in desperate need of a robust solution for Joomla 1.7, but the waiting period on this seems outrageous. The alternatives are not worth the time, yet development of DOCMan seems to be shrouded in mystery. All we seem to get are vague notions of how wesome 2.0 will be, but we are still left waiting.

I have paid for DOCMan in the past. I am glad to see the implementation of the member system (although I fail to see how this and the Center took precedence over DOCMan itself), and I have NO issue paying for exceptional extensions. At this point in time, however, I have absolutely no comfort that you guys will deliver 2.0 in the next 12 months, so what impetus is there for me to pay now?

By: Johan Janssens

Johan Janssens — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 13:14:00 +0000

Thanks for the feedback. It’s very much appreciated. We are doing the best we can and have been failing a little bit to communicate about DOCman 2.0 Will try to do better on that.

As for the feature list of DOCman 2.0. You can find features that are being worked on or are in review on our ideas tracker : http://ideas.joomlatools.eu/forums/10697-docman/topics/10697-i-suggest-you-/filter/accepted
We also added comments to features that are being worked on to explain what the exact implementation will look like. Hope this helps to give an idea.

By: Telaran

Telaran — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 09:25:00 +0000

So at the moment we getting as usual the “we’re working on it” statement mixed with “lot of features”- promises.

And yes it was really important to take all the effort in changing the old payment system to a membership… no comment

I’m still missing a real list of feature of the 2.0, a roadmap and/or published Videos/Files of the mentioned sneak preview’s. If you want annually payments, you have to make a roadmap!There was a time I really liked and loved Docman but now I really have to look for another solution.

By: Robin Nelson

Robin Nelson — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 04:55:00 +0000

Outstanding article over again! I am impatient for your next post.

By: Johan Janssens

Johan Janssens — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 14:18:00 +0000

Hi Christoph, we are working as hard as we can. DOCman 2 will still take a while to complete. Good progress has been made on a lot of the required features. Instead of waiting until it’s all done, we have decided to release the features that have been completed through separate components. More news on that in a next post.

By: Christoph Kühnl

Christoph Kühnl — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 13:38:00 +0000

Any Idea when it´s ready?