Hello @john
Yes we want to replace cmsplugin-filer with more specific plugins following the Python Zen "Do one thing, and that good". For that matter we are working on cleanup/improving some existing plugins to replace cmsplugin-filer:
- cmsplugin_filer_file > djangocms-file
- cmsplugin_filer_folder > djangocms-file
- cmsplugin_filer_image > djangocms-picture
- cmsplugin_filer_link > djangocms-link
- cmsplugin_filer_teaser > djangocms-teaser (though we do not update it for now)
- cmsplugin_filer_video > djangocms-video
This will mainly help us ship djangocms-installer and the default installation on Aldryn with good and clean base plugins. Next step will be to provide facilities to migrate older projects to these new plugins. After that we will deprecate the old ones (will take some months though). We will publish blog posts prior to this scenario :)