Now we are approaching to the end of community bonding period and there's only a little time left before coding starts. So before getting started, I wanted to make a more detailed explanation of my project and *hopefully* get some feedback from the community.

In my opinion, different content types are one of the most common needs for a CMS. This feature would result in reducing the number of components by combining most of them with a single content component and also allow flexibility with little effort. So, if anything goes as expected, I'll implement this functionality this summer with the guiding of my great, helpful mentor Jason Kendall.

But although the project is about content types, my component will also be a content component just like com_content. So the first thing I'm doing is to fork com_content and chop it cruelly. In my version, there won't be any sections and categorization will be based on nested categories. I'll also take out some features like voting, frontpage view (to replace with a different implementation that allows multiple frontpages at a later point)

If we continue talking about content types, they will be based on fields like textarea, checkbox, radio button etc. By combining the needed fields, you'll be able to create what you want. For example, you can create an image gallery by adding an input box for image link, a text area for image description and some fields for image metadata. Then by creating a template, you'll be able to show it the way you want in your site.

To add a new content item, you'll be prompted to select the content type you want among a list of your existing types. Then a form will be generated with all the fields for that type. So once you set up your content type and create your template (which may require a developer hand) any user in your site will be able to create new items easily.

Above is the skeleton for what I'm building. But not only me, our community -which means you- will use this component. So your feedback is more than important. If you have any ideas, wishes, criticism, bad words please shoot them in comments. They are greatly appreciated.