One of the serious gap I'm facing, when you want to move from Sharepoint to Alfresco Share, is the management of lists. In a collaboration environment, this is often crucial: todo list, issue list, bug tracking, risk log,… I have searched a bit the web and seen many other people having the same request.
Do we have any idea if this is on Alfresco Share's roadmap? When could we expect such functionalities?
I agree it's an important component. It's on our Roadmap (http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Roadmap) but I can't give you a date / version as to when it might be implemented.
The side-labs open source project developed a SQL module for Alfresco which allows to manage dynamic data lists. Moreover, webscripts for each content type are generated automatically from a model you just have to define through the graphical designer provided with side-labs. This model will indicate, for example, a todo list with task name and due date, a bug list with assignee, bug summary and so on…
Then theses webscripts may be imported as dashlets into web or share client.
The side-labs project also contains a more classical way to display data to respect the Share look and feel. So, a document list is available in which you can indicate your metadata in the same previoux way.