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

[Markus Klein]

Hi!

> 
> Hi Georg,
> 
> On 10-06-13 14:56, Georg Ringer wrote:
> > Those extensions might be important to parts of your installations but
> > certainly not for everybody.
> 
> That same argument will apply to at least 50% of the core functionality.
> Yet I can't remember ever building a site without a news like system or the
> need for real url's.

I can tell you from my work that I did quite some pages without any sort of news extension.
Furthermore I like the possibility to choose between realUrl and coolUri.

Therefore these extensions should stay in TER and should not be included into Core.

> 
> > Besides just having something as sysext isn't a solution at all as it
> > requires Active Contributors having deep knowledge in those extensions
> > which I doubt is the case.
> 
> True.
> 
> > Furtheremore the code quality of those extensions is quite poor -
> > maybe this is also the reason why it is so hard that someone wants to
> > take over as maintainer.
> 
> But that's exactly my point. TYPO3 works great as long you can stick to the
> core, but as soon as you need a third party extension it immediately
> becomes tricky due to the poor quality of a lot of them. Therefore important
> extensions like news, realurl, a mail system etc should be part of the core.

No! These important extensions should get support from people like you, who obviously have a lot of knowledge and also have the usecases.

Kind regards
Markus