[TYPO3-v4] Basic Frontend User Registration for the core?

[Xavier Perseguers]

Hi,

> there is absolutly a need for that but main problem is: A very basic
> user registration is as senseless as the default loginbox before
> newloginbox (or how was it called).
> It needs a feature rich extension, of course based on extbase, which is
> extendable.
>
> Of course double opt-in is needed, same for optional check by an admin
> and so on.

I agree with Georg here, we have enough of those "basic" extensions. 
Just have a look at what you mainly find in TER. Nowadays, user 
registration is a whole process with double opt-in, password retrieval 
(with timeout of the link), change of password from the interface once 
logged-in, management of user information, multi-step wizard for the 
registration, possibly acknowledge of some legal stuff (even if never 
read), ...

A new extension should not wait until all of those things are ready to 
be released but should encompass all of these. Then regarding the 
question whether it should be part or not of the core, my POV is that it 
does not need to, the Core is big enough and many smaller websites do 
not need user registration. I would prefer releasing it on TER, 
highlighted with other "A-Class" (oh, what was that already?) extensions 
and let integrators use it or not according to their needs.

Xavier