[TYPO3-dev] not amused...

[Xavier Perseguers]

Hi,

> But I think that an extension in TER should at least have a certain 
> amount of functionality (no more 'nothing' extensions).
> Furthermore I do not see any need to release an extension in TER with 
> state 'alpha' and no manual at all. This doesn't lead to a higher amount 
> of testers, this is just flooding the TER with development stuff that 
> should be in Forge. An extension should be released when it reached a 
> state in which everything works on the developer's system. It can have 
> experimental features and bugs, but the core should be at least nearly 
> stable.

I guess the problem until recently is that there were no Forge and many extensions were not managed into a "local" svn repository.

Snapshot of trunk version of extensions in Forge is now available under
http://sourceforge.net/projects/typo3xdev/files/T3X/

I guess that if EM gets an option to allow updates from this source too, then releasing alpha extensions to TER won't have any advantage any more. Before, I guess it was just quite handy to be able to 
update a remote site without having to log into it and make an SVN update or install some extensions that allowed SVN to be managed from within the TYPO3 filemanager.

Regards

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Xavier Perseguers
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