[TYPO3-dev] about new Form sysext

[Ernesto Baschny]

Hi Robert,

the 4.5 LTS is not meant to be a release where every new feature is
backported. In fact, we never backport any feature to a released minor
version of TYPO3. The LTS denotes that we will fix and support the
functionality *shipped* with 4.5.0 for three years with:

- bug fixes
- security fixes
- compatibility fixes (with newer browser versions for example)

The new FORM extension is a whole and unique new *feature* which was
released with TYPO3 4.6, thus won't be backported to work with 4.5.

Of course anyone is welcome and could release a compatible "form"
extension that works with TYPO3 4.5 LTS, but this is not the
responsibility of the core team and will never get into the official 4.5
LTS release.

The official release workflow which states this is documented here [1].

Cheers,
Ernesto

[1] http://typo3.org/teams/core-team/resources/release-workflow/

Robert Wildling schrieb am 05.04.2012 09:57:
> The new form ext is a bit of a riddle to me. What was the reason for
> reprogramming the form ext? Moving to extbase & fluid? OK. But why is it
> still imcomplete and very buggy? It IS a core ext, isn't it?
> 
> Another post metions that refactoring is planned, but didn't make it to
> 4.7. Somebody else mentions - very correctly - that it should be
> backported to 4.5 being a LTS ... but that does not seem to be in the
> interest of the core team, is it?
> 
> I would love to read some explanation about this topic, because I think
> the basic functionality that this ext brings with it, is awesome. It
> could very well be a serious "competitor" to powermail. - And I would
> really like to know, why there is nothing done to make it work properly
> in 4.5...
> 
> (Please be so kind NOT to say I am welcome to co-develop it... I am not
> a programmer, but I try the ext, post bugs at forge, vote and already
> posted some things here on the various lists. That's about it what I can
> do.)
> 
> Thanks.
> Robert
> 
>> since a read a mail about it and i have been looking into it last week:
>>
>> is anybody really using this ext?
>>
>> i could not find any hook / setting to add my finalizers (to save data
>> to db and send them outside), so i could not use it
>>
>> ciao
>> stefano
>>
>>
>>
> 


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Ernesto Baschny
Core Developer V4 Team
Release Manager TYPO3 4.5

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