[TYPO3-dev] Contribution to community extensions

[Philipp Gampe]

Hi Xavier,

Xavier Perseguers wrote:

> 4) Some extensions are now continuously developed on GitHub (or similar
> platforms) and authors are not really releasing anything anymore on TER,
> or - similar problem - the extension is forked many times and nobody
> (from the outside) can easily say which fork is "the best to take".

We definitely need a way to import external git tags. That could happen on 
an automated way. But I fear that this feature has to wait until next year, 
once 4.5 runs out and we can drop some legacy structures on TER.
We can then drop ext_emconf.php too and focus on composer.json files 
(providing an automatic convert for legacy extensions).
At that time, we might also have a much tighter composer integration and 
composer install might become the common way to install CMS - just dreaming.

;)

Until then, we should have upgraded t3o to 6.2, providing an more 
sophisticated platform for further developments than 4.5.

Best regards
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Philipp Gampe – PGP-Key 0AD96065 – TYPO3 UG Bonn/Köln
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