alkor

There are many great components around, and I doubt whether we need any general purpose components any more.

The fact which makes me sad is poor ACL implementation and other core limitations.
For example, speaking about forum or gallery it would be much easier to integrate 3rd party forums (like phpBB, Coppermine, etc) if we had set of events like onLogin, onRegister, onLogout.
The same goes for ACL - at the moment without heavy hacking it is impossible to introduce new user groups into mambo. Therefore I can't use simpleboard instead of custom phpBB implementaion at my site, because I want to have different user groups: say members, paid members, VIP members with different roles and rights.

So as for me, we should think about enhancing core rather then 3rd party solutions, because core is the biggest bottleneck now. e.g. many components proposed here (say, groupware-like) are completely useless without proper core features (ACL mgt for groupware, for examle).

In fact, list of long-awaited things to be added to the core is very short: 1) multilanguage support, 2) ACL management, 3) tree/web-like content structure, and 4) flexible event-driven system so we could extend functionality in each aspect without direct core hacking. Though introducing this 1-2-3-4 will involve to much code to be rewritten.