[TYPO3-dev] about new Form sysext

[Robert Wildling]

Uups, I'm sorry, I had in mind the new FORM ext was part of 4.5 - my 
mistake!

Still, I am looking forward to the final state of that ext!

Regards,
Robert

> 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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