[TYPO3-dev] new EXT:categorize to categorize everything

[Uschi Renziehausen]

Hi folks,

> 
> how can the ECT work when no active DEVs are joining it and coordinating 
> their extensions? As much as I understand the ECT it's not primary a 
> actively developing team - but a team coordinating development, so that 
> devs know "hey, there is already a extension in progress for the purpose 
> I need, so I don't need to start from scratch and can join forces". But 
> if nobody is talking to them about their planned extensions, the ECT 
> can't support them. Of course the "leaders" are also devs, but their 
> main task is coordination. So all devs should join the ECT newsgroup, 
> write about their planned extension, probably find some other interested 
> party and discuss the concept and aim of the extension with them to get 
> a most usable result.
> 

If I want to get informed what is under development I search forge and I 
am reading the dev list, even though I am only a quarter coder.

If I was a member of ECT and noticed that such an important EXT as 
tx_categories is not developed anymore I had written
a) a mail to mads about his future plans,
b) a call for help in this list.

Now we have Georg, the busy bee, and he really does something very 
useful here, which I quite well know because I had the pleasure of a 
test account and watched categorize growing every day.
No offense intended, but instead of arguing whether or not Georg should 
have posted in ECT, we better should  all join forces to make the new 
extension baby THE CATEGORY EXT in capital letters, or even better, a 
sysext, as was suggested by Patrick Gaumond further up!

I am willing to contribute as much as I can, but I can only document 
stuff, do some testing, and, last but not least, try to find some 
sponsoring.

Please let us ensure that this time we really get what everybody needs.

Kind regards, Uschi (who is fed up with implementing a large category 
tree here, there, and somewhere else and teach editors how to edit 
categories for ext a, ext b, ext c)