[TYPO3-dev] not amused...

[Mathias Schreiber [wmdb >]]

Reinhard Führicht schrieb:
> 
>>>> 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 The design of the repository listing on typo3.org is outdated and is 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.

Agreed.

> A simple possible solution:
> 
> Only allow extensions marked 'stable' to be released in TER.

Will result in all "crappy" authors marking their extensions stable.

> For development we have Forge.
> For publishing the extensions we have the TER.

agreed.

> Allowing only stable extensions there, will
> 
> 1. Decrease the number of crappy extensions

Unfourtunately not. see above.

> 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 :-))

This is pretty tricky, since you would need to connect all mirrors for a 
central count of downloads.

> - Provide a better rating, commenting system (I know, I know :-))

good point, heard that somewhere already :)

> - 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.

How do you want to test this?



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