[TYPO3-english] Outdated / abandoned extensions in TER

[Mathias Bolt Lesniak, LiliO]

Hi Xavier!

That sounds like a great idea.

I sure have some extensions in the TER myself that I’m not actively maintaining (not that they don’t have their uses). At the same time, I regularly find extensions that are great, but obviously abandoned, though they only need a couple of minutes to work in the most recent T3 versions. Being able to post the fix would be excellent!

Any help needed to get this off the ground?


Best wishes

Mathias Bolt Lesniak
LiliO - www.lilio.no
mathias at lilio.com



On 4. mars 2014, at 11:42, Xavier Perseguers <xavier at typo3.org> wrote:

> Dear TYPO3 users and developers,
> 
> This post is to gather some feedback from the community.
> 
> As you know, the TYPO3 extension repository (TER) contains many outdated or abandoned extensions. Marking them as such is long running task (not technically complicated but that's another story).
> 
> Now, from time to time (I just did it this morning with EXT:lz_links) someone picks up an abandoned extension (last update in 2004, no bug tracker, no public repository, it did not really exist back then), fork it on GitHub, fix it and then tweet about it.
> 
> This is great for users being aware of it but this is not a good solution, naturally.
> 
> Now, it is known that in case of abandoned extensions, someone can try to contact the author to get the extension key being transfer and become a new maintainer. If there is no answer for some time, the ECT (Extension Coordination Team), with dedicated mailing list and project on Forge, has the privilege to actually transfer the extension key.
> 
> However, this is often not really wished to become the new maintainer when you were just sponsored (or did it for fun) to "fix it". At the same time, the open-source spirit would be to publish it so that others may benefit from your work and the TER is the place to put it back.
> 
> Transferring an abandoned extension to the Core account is not desired, as the active contributor team does not have the resources to maintain all those extensions.
> 
> What would you think of setting up an account as owner for abandoned stuff? If someone has an update, we could have some simple reviews on a mailing list and then a new version could be uploaded as a service to the public with no responsibility to maintain it further.
> 
> This would have the nice side effect of clearly showing the abandoned state in TER while allowing someone/some group to pick it up and take care of it again.
> 
> What do you think?
> 
> -- 
> Xavier Perseguers
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> 
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