[TYPO3-community] Community Plugin - Current State

[Alexander Heim]

Hi,

great to see, that there is a development in this process. Sadly i have
had to muich work the last weeks to do something more and to think about
it.

Now i have a big "but"! The idea of this Community-Community ;-) was or
is in my eyes, to work togehter with a lot of people to get the best out
of typo3 for developing community-websites. So I'm wondering, if i miss
some discussions about the plan, how the stuff will be developed. Is
there already a roadmap? Who is doing what? How is the guideline for
developing? I understand, that just starting and writing code is more
fun in the beginning, but without a clear concept, which is published,
the complete idea of an open set of many small community extensions, who
work easily and perfect together will die.

Maybe i missed some discussions somewhere. I thought, that we wanted to
meet. But strange, this thread died. So whats up? Where? When?

I do not want to be negative, but i leaded and developed some big
software projects and i just know all the problems which will come, if
there is no clear concept before.


But maybe someone can send me a document with the concept and i read it
and say: perfect! everything is thoughtful and i'm happy :-)



Greetz
Alex


Michael Knoll schrieb:
> Hi folks,
> 
> after I wrote my last test for this holidays last friday, Lars and I
> started to write the first lines of code for the community extension. We
> decided to use lib/div although it's really a hard piece of work to get
> through the code and to find out how everything works. As Elmar
> explained to me, it's still alpha.
> 
> We try to set up a basic extension with most of the wishes you posted on
>  the wiki.
> 
> At the moment we are concentrating on the following functionality:
> 
> - User registration (first step is done via fe_user_registration)
> - User settings and privacy settings (extending fe_users and creating a
> own table for complex privacy settings)
> - User search
> - Add/Remove Buddies
> - Show relations between buddies
> - A configurable user list to cope with any kind of user listing
> (search-list, buddy-list, group-members-list, ...)
> 
> The next step will be to put up groups. We decided to extend
> fe_user_groups for that purpose and will put up some functionality that
> enables users to join groups or to invite other users into groups etc.
> 
> After that, we will put up a messaging system, that enables users to
> send messages on public boards as well as on private messaging.
> 
> That will be the core of the extension. We are thinking about a kind of
> a plugin concept to make the extension work with community-extensions to
> get a modular concept, but that will be one of the later points.
> 
> We also decided to put up the basic functionality with new extensions
> based on lib/div as most of the old extensions are based on pibase. As
> soon as there is a example-installation of it, we will send a link to
> the list.
> 
> So far - regards
> 
> Mimi