[Typo3-dev] TemplaVoila, normalising the database and XML

[Martin T. Kutschker]

dan frost wrote:
> 
> I have actually spoken to Kasper about this before and I bet you he 
> won't jump at it because it'll seriously break backward compatibility 
> (Don't argue with this bit ... it's not my point...).
> 
> I suggest that:
> 1. We design a normalised database for TYPO3's core
> 2. We look at all the implications - in the core, the extensions, the 
> DBAL etc
> 3. We try to do it!!!
> 
> Basically, we have to put our coding where our mouths are!
> 
> Yes: this is a major "branch" and would probably not get finished for 
> about a year or so (from experience of developing ObTS). I don't think 
> this should split the community - we should just setup the branch for 
> experimenting and finding solutions where backwards compatibility etc 
> don't matter as much as they do in the main branch.
> 
> I am happy to help or lead this... but where to start???

Well. Does anyone see a chance to get this into the distro?

While I'd love to weed out cruft and work with clean and hopefully lean 
design, I cannot see this happening in TYPO3.

What do you have in mind? Some kind of TYPO3 5.0 (4.0 is probaly too 
near now) with normalized DB, integrated ObjTS (obsoleting current TS) 
and sone other fine new stuff but lacking compatibility for things long 
deprecated (eg language splits, etc)?

I fear this road leads to a fork, sooner or later.

Masi