Wim Mostrey Engaging Drupal

The last few weeks have been truly amazing. A while ago Udo Gerhards was so generous to post a new module to the asset issue queue that allows integration with lightbox2. The module was written for imagecache1, which asset support back then. Not much later Owen Barton of CivicActions fame posted a patch to the asset module to support imagecache2. Now last week Schroedhelm (who has only been a d.o member for a week) posted a patch to Udo's module to also work with imagecache2. I'm so grateful for these efforts, this makes being a module maintainer an extraordinary experience.

This is all happened just in time to hit Release Candidate 2 of the asset module. So be sure to install imageapi and update imagecache to the newest recommended version before upgrading if you're working with images. Only minor bugs were reported the last few weeks so I'm not expecting a third release candidate. This indeed means that in about three weeks Asset 1.0 will be released!

But wait, there's more! In another display of drupalosity David Lesieur posted a module that provides integration with the jQuery Media module! At the moment of this writing the module is not completely ready for production so it will probably only be added in Asset 1.1. And thanks to the patience and continued testing of Stefan Oertel and Eric Bin the asset wizard looks perfect in Firefox 2 and 3, Internet Explorer 6, Safari 3 and Opera! There's still an issue in IE7 that everyone is free to look at: we've been grinding our teeth at it, to no avail.

There have a been a lot of people asking when a Drupal 6 version of the asset module is expected and what the roadmap is. Well with no major bugs being reported the last few weeks I think it's time to start porting. The core asset module and the asset wizard will be ported first, followed by the different helper modules. More information can be found in the groups.drupal.org article on the future of the asset module.