[TYPO3-dev] Any bugfix coder for DAM available?

[ries van Twisk]

On Jul 11, 2007, at 3:49 PM, Steffen Kamper wrote:

> Hi,
>
> "Wolfgang Klinger" <wolfgang at stufenlos.net> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
> news:mailman.6940.1184183789.29892.typo3-dev at lists.netfielders.de...
>>
>> *hiya!*
>>
>> On Jul 11, 2007, at 7:50 PM, Franz Holzinger wrote:
>>>> If someone checks a bugfi into the bugtracker, the core team   
>>>> should add
>>>> this if the extension is very often used and the developer doesn't
>>>> answer after a certain time.
>>> No, this would not be fine.
>>> Maybe an entry for each extension should be created on the wiki.
>>> Everyone could post links to his patches there. And he could   
>>> discuss the
>>> troubles found with others on the wiki page of an extension.
>>> An extension should be transferred to someone else only after 1   
>>> year of
>>> no response from the author.
>>
>> No one waits 1 year(!) for any response,
>> let alone that the one who does is into the problem (and solutions)
>> anymore...
>
> absulute !
>>
>>>> It could also be, that the email address given just is spamed,  
>>>> so  that
>>>> the author now has another adresse and never looks into his  
>>>> emails  any
>>>> more ;-).
>>> An email is not a very secure means of transport. It could get lost,
>>> overseen or deleted.
>>
>> Anybody who makes a living off this IT stuff reads email regularly  
>> and
>> knows enough about his spam filter... come on, your answers aren't  
>> very
>> realistic (nor flexible enough for this fast changing world ;-)   
>> *harhar*)
>>
>
> full ack. Anyone who writes an extension for the public use is also
> responsible. If he don't continue he loose his responsibility.
>
> Best solution would be a special team who can be contacted if an  
> author
> doesn't response for a while. This team sends a mail to the author  
> with a
> ultimate date, after that without answer he loose the key.
>
> vg  Steffen
>
>


Or create a extension called: dam_fork and depreciate dam for  
yourself..... (not good and ugly, but that's they way it is)

I remember that Kasper once said: a patch a day keeps a fork away.....


Ries