[TYPO3] A serious question about extension development

[Andreas Balzer]

Hi guys!
I have been looking very often at TER in the last couple of months, 
hoping that there'll be a new (stable) version of tt_news, chc_forum, 
cwt_community, dam and others.. I did not find anything, because nothing 
new has been uploaded as it looks like.

I think this is very sad, because there are so many bugs listed in 
bugtracker and features listed in the feature lists, but there's noone 
who's willing or able to create a new version. Some people are ill, some 
are snowboarding in their holidays, .. (which is of course right)

Well I asked myself, whether it would be a solution to open extension 
development in order to have more devs out there (than just the ext 
owner) that are able to do stuff which can be then published on TER.

As I understood the XCLASS system doesn't allow to do endless changes, 
so you can't just create thousands of extensions that are extending the 
same part of T3 or an extension.

So what about creating a svn repository and ask all the ext owners out 
there whether they want to participate and upload their stuff on such a 
plattform, where _everyone_ can code parts of an ext and then upload it 
somehow, so that a team (or the ext owner) can verify the code and then 
integrate it with a single click..

It's not an easy task to get something like this working and it would 
consume a lot of system resources i guess, but it would be a step 
further on 'Inspiring people to share'..

So what do you think?

Andreas