[TYPO3-dev] not amused...

[bernd wilke]

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 The design of the repository listing on typo3.org is outdated and is 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

every update/ upgrade/ bugfix will lead to an (temporary) unstable 
extension. having this new version only in SVN you reduce the amount of 
people testing and giving feedback and leading to a new stable version.

As long as SVN-Access is much more complicated than TER you will more 
and more reduce the number extensions.
Or you will get extensions declared stable which are miles away from 
being realy stable. (as said before)

> 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, ...

every ext-dev is free, to insert keywords in 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.

+1 on getting a better FE-interface for TER.

But don't forget the TER-interface inside of each TYPO3-installation.
while all extension-informations are stored in database you are free to 
create an BE-Module, which will provide all the restricted views you request

bernd
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