[TYPO3-content-rendering] What to do with the (old) standard templates?

[Elmar Hinz]

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> I did propose creating new templates a long time ago, but as usual,
> there was little to no feedback/help and so the project died. Look for
> example templates in TER, I did make some and even started a TS std lib
> (for the usual list-based menu, stdfooter,etc.) so people would not have
> to reinvent the wheel. You can see my posts in the typo3.design archive.
> 

TER I wasn't a plattform people did use for cooperation. In contrary to
sourceforge I never observed an extension that was maintained by a real team of
people. People posted bugfix extensions to the bugfix extension instead. I hope
it will be better with TER II.

The extension cooperation team (typo3.teams.extension-cooperation) is also meant
as an incubator to organize small extension building projects. We plan
preconfigured packages. Logically that will contain templates.

A std template library / repository would be a good addendum. But it is a
project itself and will need a head first.

> I don't think we need many templates, as one 3col-layout can easily be
> styled and nobody really needs out-of-the-box-templates for TYPO3

I think out of the box templates would be usefull for a lot of little non
professional projects. The success of other projects often results of simple
installation combined with a repository of pretty skins. I would like to see
something like this for TYPO3, too.

> (except for testing purposes). The main purpose of new templates should
> be to show off a lot of TS features, thus somewhat replacing the
> testsite packages.
> 
> If any of you wants to continue, drop me a line and I'll cheerfully hand
> the extension development over.

If you like to organize a TS lib repository ECT may be a good place to start or
to ask if someone likes to continue your work. Maybe
typo3.projects.content-rendering is the best place itself to organize such a
project.

Regards

Elmar


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