[Typo3] Zap the Gremlins - report them!!!!

[Dmitrii Dimandt]

Staffan, exactly.
Many gremlins are exactly that - usability issues for the most part.
Should they be bugs? I doubt it.

And coming to TER... Well, honestly, it's horrible. Actually, just a
couple of days ago I decided to reinstall indexed_search from TER. And
it wasn't there! There was no way to get hold of an earlier version of
it as well. When a version of an extension breaks something, there is
simply no way to revert to an earlier version - it disappears! So,
consider that a gremlin. And a huge one as well.

On 10/20/05, Staffan Ericsson <staffan at zytor.com> wrote:
> Hi ho!
>
> Shouldn't be writting this at all. But i feel that the connection to the
> bugtracker is kind of overkill.
>
> Most of the gremlins I stumble on in Typo3 is not bugs - it small annoying
> things evenly distributed among the extensions. The core works good enough
> for me, but the extensions are a sad story.
>
> There is really good ones that do there work very nice. But many lack
> documentation, are narrowminded developed to solve the specific problem
> for that site and not generall tools. A few extensions should be part of
> the core package and be equally good as the rest of the core.
>
> At the same time it's a strength that many similar extensions exists, but
> without a quality control system I think it also damages Typo3.
>
> The "feedback to Typo3 marketers"-thread didn't mentioned it but I think
> that TER has to be updated very soon. When I can't even select which
> development statuses of the extensions i want to view, there is a problem.
>
> Clear rules what is needed to reach Alpha, Beta and stable is needed. No
> extensions should reach Beta without templatehandling and documentation. A
> new requierment should be correct HTML4.01/CSS2.1 usage.
>
> Stable should be a level that a quality team gives a extensions.
>
> But enough of my horrible english and ranting. I still like Typo3 and
> thinks that all do a good job, everybody just has to give a little more
> thought to the other users that is going to use the extension.
>
> .staffan
>
>
>
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