[TYPO3-english] [TYPO3-dev] Contribution to community extensions
Xavier Perseguers
xavier at typo3.org
Sat Aug 16 10:15:32 CEST 2014
Dear TYPO3 community developers and users,
I'd like to start a thread to gather feedback on the issues/worries you
may have (or not) to:
1) Report problems in the extension's bug tracker
2) Get feedback from authors about the ticket (*)
3) Fix bugs, provide correction to the author and get it packed in a new
release
4) If a patch is available, testing it before an official release
5) ...
(*) as an extension author, I must admit I have sometimes the problem
that a community member properly reports a bug but in a "fire and
forget" way, so that discussion with him/her is then impossible and
usually leads to tickets being open for a very long time until they
simply get abandoned.
As you see, there are many axes for the discussion but my concern is:
1) Some extensions are using Git/Gerrit so that workflow is same as
TYPO3 Core, from my point of view, this is cool because it prevents wild
forks while keeping the same (known) workflow as when contributing to
the Core but getting up to speed may be difficult for non-developers.
2) Some extensions are still using Subversion (on Forge) and
contributing with attached patches is old-fashioned but works if author
is active and quick to answer/tackle the issue
3) Some extensions have no bug tracker, no actual contact, or are slow
to provide feedback about new tickets that it's "no fun anymore"
Finally,
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".
Thanks for sharing your thoughts on this. Together we may certainly find
some answers and rethink how contribution should evolve.
--
Xavier Perseguers
TYPO3 CMS Team Member
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