[TYPO3-dev] A proper way to give up an extension?

[Steffen Müller]

Hi.

Am 01.09.2010 17:45, schrieb Thomas "Thasmo" Deinhamer:
> Am 01.09.2010 14:15, schrieb Steffen Müller:
>> What about adding another type of state to EM: orphaned or unmaintained
>> (in addition to alpha, beta, stable, obsolete ...)
> 
> But an extension could be 'alpha', 'beta' or 'stable' etc.
> while not beeing maintained anymore, no?

IMHO No.
An unmaintained extension is neither stable, beta or alpha. It's in a
unmaintained state.
Example: An extension was given up by the maintainer in 2005 when it was
stable. Today in 2010 you do not know if it still can be called stable.
Maybe it uses deprecated functions etc. and does not work anymore.


-- 
cheers,
Steffen

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