[Typo3-dev] The future of typo3

[Daniel Hinderink [TYPO3]]

Hi Michael,

In order to complete the picture:
I (the marketing and innocation guy) support most of your points, quite
along René's and Roberts line of argumentation.

Making TYPO3 more modular and thereby more less redundant, partly unfinished
and undecypherable, is what I consider the biggest mid term challenge on the
route from evolving from the "we publish - they read"-application to the
toolbox that we know we could have.

Thanks again for sharing your thoughts and I would be glad, if there is a
way to interest you in bearing with the evolution of TYPO3.
There is much good code and functionality to be opened up.

Cheers

Daniel



> 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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Daniel Hinderink
Marketing, Press Relations, Strategy
http://www.typo3.com