[Typo3-dev] Sharing the load of development?

[Troels Kjær Rasmussen]

Hi Kasper				

While we are getting those EXTs organized....

Some of those extensions you mention have 1 or more dublets, such as the mininews, which has several "cousins" .e.g. tt_news, news++, moc knowledgebase, press center...and I could go on. Also theres is 2 or 3 newletter subscription/distribution EXT´s out there. 

A real shame that everyone has to re-invent the wheel everytime they want to create an extension and that the created ones often are incompatible.

what can be done?

I know I posted something like this way back, but I´ll risk it again...

STANDARDS is the answer I think.

e.g. there is a variety of fields which almost all news have (title, author, bodytext, date, a.s.o.) - how about all news share the same table and then EXTENSIONS modify that table depending on needed extrafeatures? - and you could have an tt_news_exclusive_EXT field in that table, if the news is exclusively for that EXT.

I suggest standards for:

news (I don´t know if there is any standards for news out there, but we could make our own)
Bibliographic items (documents,written materials, media etc - could be MARC standard)
timebased items (new calendar is needed anyway - maybe iCal standard?)
Learning items (IMS/SCORM)
+ more

If we choose these "aknowledged" standards, we would not only ensure compabiblity with later Typo´s and EXTs, but also with other programs and systems using these standards (Outlook, Library systems, LMS´s a.s.o.)

What do you guys think?





- Troels Kjær Rasmussen (troelsr)

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