[TYPO3-dev] not amused...

[Reinhard Führicht]

>>> Which core exts do you mean?
>> rtehtmlarea, dbal, t3editor, sys_action, feedit, simulatestatic, 
>> extbase, felogin, indexed_search, adodb, openid, rsaauth
> 
> I get your point but the question is: What is the sense of shipping a 
> CMS without a RTE? Everybody will download one anyway. This is the sense 
> of a sysext => it is used by everyone. Same for login.
> 
> dbal is inside for a reason too.

Just a thought about extensions in general:

We all know that the TER is a mess. There is no easy way to find out if 
an extension is well written, secure and most important even working!

The design of the repository listing on typo3.org is outdated and is 
giving no useful information.

A simple possible solution:

Only allow extensions marked 'stable' to be released in TER.
For development we have Forge.
For publishing the extensions we have the TER.

Allowing only stable extensions there, will

1. Decrease the number of crappy extensions
2. Decrease the overall number of extension which will make it easier to 
find what you are searching for
3. Will make it easier to review an extension.

Further aspects:

- Allow to enter keywords for an extension, so that the search will not 
only use title, key and description, ...
- Fix the download counter! (I know, I know :-))
- Provide a better rating, commenting system (I know, I know :-))
- Only show extensions which will work in a specific TYPO3 version. On 
typo3.org, let the user filter by TYPO3 version. In extension manager 
use the installed version.

Reinhard