[TYPO3-dev] Number of extensions

[Stefan Frömken]

Am 11.09.2009 14:39, schrieb Ries van Twisk:
>
> On Sep 11, 2009, at 4:51 AM, Steffen Kamper wrote:
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>> 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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I'm not a CORE-Developer but I think this is a good start and I've just 
checked if my extensions have a doc :-) So...let's start...