[Typo3-dev] The future of typo3

[René Fritz]

Hi Michael

Robert has already commented so there's no need for me to go into details.

Generally I agree to your comments. Most of the issues are already adressed. 
Nevertheless comments like yours are highly appreciated.

Software - not only Open Source - is some evolutionary thing. Some of the 
things in TYPO3 would be made a little different by now if we would start 
from scratch. On the other hand we still belive in the overall concepts. For 
example, when extensions were introduced this could have been done with minor 
changes. All the interfaces were already there.

Some of the issues you described depends on the seperation of frontend and 
backend. I can not simply agree to your advice to use only one user table, 
but that is not the point. The seperation of  FE and BE is intended. That 
means the BE is a database application which can run without any FE. The FE 
don't have to be a website. Of course you're right if you say BE and FE 
should share more functionality.
BTW: do you know that you can edit content in the frontend?

I totally agree that building a plugin should be more easy. There's more 
foundation needed.

We'll try to move the codebase to be more abstract and reusable, which will 
have the effect to share more functionality in BE and FE. We belive that it 
can be done without a big compatibility break.
On the other hand we're not afraid to introduce technologies which should 
replace old ones if that is the cleaner and better way for the future.

much to do ...

greetings
René

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