[TYPO3-english] TYPO3 6.2 which Extensions will still work?

[Oliver Hader]

Hi Andreas,

thanks for bringing up that topic, however there's no need to be that
pessimistic about that. During the first Active Contributor Meeting in
May 2013 three important sub-projects for TYPO3 6.2 LTS have been
identified - one of these is called "smoot migration" [1] to enable a
nice upgrade path from TYPO3 4.5 LTS to TYPO3 6.2 LTS.

Besides having a way to identify drawbacks before upgrading, there will
be a compatibility extension that reduces the pain of upgrading (due to
removed deprecated functionalits in earlier versions) and is targeted to
avoid these kind of blockers. Besides that, there shall be some kind of
support of "high impact" extensions - for example changes to RealURL,
tt_news, automaketemplate and others have been pushed to the accordant
Git repositories that hold the current state of development for those
accordant TYPO3 extensions.

As you can see, this topic is prioritized and not forgotten at all.

Cheers,
Olly

[1] http://forge.typo3.org/projects/typo3cms-smoothmigration


Am 10.06.13 14:26, schrieb Andreas Becker:
> Hi
> 
> After Tolleiv announced that TemplaVoila will be discontinued we and
> customers are very worried! as most of our customers have Sites based on
> TemplaVoila and they are very happy with it as there is nothing similar
> which comes close to its usability for Content and Site Creators in the CMS
> universe!
> 
> What about tt_news - we read that his seems to be discontinued to or no
> more maintained properly. As it is pi based will it still work in TYPO3
> 6.2? I know that there are alternatives but they often don't have the
> flexibility like tt_news had when modifying tt_news for other purposes like
> presenting only news. Isn't tt_products based on it too?
> 
> What about cal another great extensions used in several sites? Will it be
> possible to upgrade from 4.5 LTS to 6.2 LTS without problems and bigger
> investments - Time and Bug Fixing?
> 
> What about real url? We realized during the last updates of the 6.* branch
> that it is always again and again breaking. Isn't it's coding similar to
> what we have in TemplaVoila in terms on how difficult it is to maintain.
> Meanwhile we switched many sites again to cooluri which works much more
> consitantly in TYPO3 6.*
> 
> What about commerce - long time nobody seems to be talking anymore about
> it? Still existing and working in TYPO3 6.0!
> 
> What about Multishop - the best shop solution for TYPO3 and very very
> flexible but perhaps in the way of some developers too like TYPO3 as major
> fixes in the core don't take place to get it working in TYPO3 6.1
> 
> "TYPO3 Multishop version 3.0 is currently heavily under development. We
> expect to deliver the final version to the public in February 2013." since
> February no progress Why?
> 
> What about mm_forum - what alternatives can be used in 6.2?
> 
> Andi
> 


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TYPO3 CMS Core Team Leader

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