Following webchick's suggestion at http://drupal.org/node/1550304, we'd like to propose/discuss to use some parts of the content_menu.module to improve menu management and content authoring experience in Drupal 8.
Menu authoring is a.t.m. rather cumbersome for many editors, mainly because it strictly separates menu authoring from content authoring (which is cool in the api, but sucks in the interface). Content menu module therefore rewires Drupals default menu management interface for tighter integration of content authoring and menu management. The goal is to make building a site's structure and content in one fluid process seamless, easy and natural. Editors can create content along with a menu item without ever really leaving the menu management process. Editors can find, associate and edit content right from the menu management interface. Content Menu module makes building a structure-oriented website "page by page" with Drupal effortless and intuitive - and an editor/sitebuilder can even pre-arrange the site's structure with menu item dummies, befor caring for content:
http://wunderkraut.com/en/blog/content-menu-module-%E2%80%93-menu-author...
http://drupal.org/project/content_menu
To get an impression of how easy content centric menu management is with the content menu module, watch our screencast:
Content Menu probably is doing too much to go anywhere near core inclusion, but we'd be glad if there's interest to discuss whether this kind of menu authoring improvement might be worth to consider in D8. If so, we'd be glad with helping to bring in some of this module's doing into core.
Postponed
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I'm currently reviewing the older menu issues.
This is a very intense reworking of the editorial process. This ticket has had no updates in close to 10 years andwould introduce a lot of new code to maintain for core. The Content Menu module also never made it to D8+.
I feel like this should stay in contrib. Postponing in case other people have thoughts.