[TYPO3-dev] Multiple Authors of one extension and other new features for TER

[bernd wilke]

On Fri, 04 Dec 2009 09:37:21 +0100 Franz Holzinger wrote:

> Sebastian Kurfürst a écrit :
>> Hey,
>> 
>>> I've got another proposal for extbase_kickstarter:
>>>
>>> It should fill in the old fields with the main person and introduce a
>>> new array with all involved persons. So nothing will break and the
>>> data is available if someone needs it. And when typo3.org will be
>>> relaunched at some point they can decide if they take those data into
>>> the TER-Frontend or not.
>> I think that's a quite good idea. Personally I didn't expect such a
>> long discussion on such a simple matter - for me it makes more sense to
>> have multiple persons, just if you take extbase and Fluid as an
>> example: In Extbase, Jochen and myself are responsible, while in Fluid,
>> Bastian and I are. In that case at least it does not make sense to use
>> "just a single maintainer" because this is just not the case.
> 
> Think also about bigger extensions, where the author is involved in many
> tasks. He might not answer to emails sent to him, because he is very
> busy. You will probably have experienced this already. In such a case it
> would be very helpful to see also the emails of others in an extension,
> so you could mail those other persons and ask your questions.

going this way it might be helpful to have a discussion-forum/-guestbook/-
commentlist with each extension where everyone can ask and answer.
something like on php.net for each php-function
that could be a nice-to-have-feature for the next TER.

bernd
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