[TYPO3-dev] Number of extensions

[Ries van Twisk]

On Sep 11, 2009, at 4:51 AM, Steffen Kamper wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Dmitry Dulepov schrieb:
>> Hi!
>>
>> Ries van Twisk wrote:
>>> How to control the quality of extensions on TER is a other  
>>> thing......
>>
>> Magento does a review for each extension before it is approved for  
>> their repository. This could be a solution.
>>
>
> Magento is in a different situation - they have payed employees.
>
> A general idea would be to make an official checklist for reviewer and
> authors like
> * has documentation
> * documentation describes all functionality and configuration
> * code match CGL
> * code use core API
> * code makes error checks
> etc
>
> then give the checks points and you will get a result which makes it
> possible to give the extension a "quality index". I know, it's not  
> easy
> but having this would make it possible for authors as well to check
> their extensions before release.
>
> vg Steffen

I understand your perspective, and I whish we could follow that but  
resources to do the above is not available.
I would check for doc only. Make a first CLEAR rule.

Later we can add checking for items as a static template and may be on  
a sunny day and we have money we can do code reviews.
For now I would stick to 'check for proper documentation for newly  
extensions and current extensions on TER (visually inspected by a  
human)'.

Also we should in the first step inform the author so that he can fix  
the documentation problem in a 4-6 week period. If still
no documentation exists we remove (deny download?) the extension.

PLEASE KISS IT!!!!

			regards, Ries van Twisk

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