[TYPO3-core] Important open Tasks for TYPO3 6.0

[Arvid Jakobsson]

If no one else is is working on the CGL issues with comment
indentation and public / static then I wouldn't mind taking it on. I
can probably use lex-pass to automate the changes. I've pushed the
last patches fixing the issues with concatenation and parenthesis.
Here are the changes if someone would like to review:

https://review.typo3.org/14623
https://review.typo3.org/14624
https://review.typo3.org/14625
https://review.typo3.org/14626
https://review.typo3.org/14627
https://review.typo3.org/14628
https://review.typo3.org/14629
https://review.typo3.org/14630
https://review.typo3.org/14631
https://review.typo3.org/14632
https://review.typo3.org/14633
https://review.typo3.org/14634

2012/9/16 Helmut Hummel <helmut.hummel at typo3.org>:
> Hi,
>
> on Tuesday 11th of September we did a short Skype conference to gather the
> most important tasks to stabalize the current state of TYPO3 6.0
>
> Participants were:
>
> Christian Kuhn, Steffen Ritter, Thomas Maroschik, Helmut Hummel
>
> We together identified the following areas that need some love:
>
> 1. CGL cleanup after namespace change
> 2. Extension Manager
> 3. FAL
> 4. Language Handling Extension
> 5. Unit Tests
> 6. Namespaces
>
> 1. CGL
> a)
> The namespace script intoduced some superfluous parenthesis for string
> concatenation. Arvid Jakobsson with the help of Wouter Wolters took care of
> that problem using the lex-pass tool and submitted patch sets to gerrit,
> which still need reviews:
>
> https://review.typo3.org/14563
> https://review.typo3.org/14565
> https://review.typo3.org/14566
>
> b)
> The namespace script removed the indentation of // comments.
> A patch set to fix that still needs to be done.
>
> c)
> Static methods have now switched visibility and static keyword.
> Most methods were named "public static" while they are now "static public"
> While both are correct PHP wise and there seem to be different preferences
> which order to use.
> We need to check if there is some remark on that in the official CGL. If
> there is no statement in the CGL we need to decide which order to use in the
> future.
>
> 2. Extension Manager
> The extension manager visual layout still needs to be finished.
> Hans Christian Reinl (@drublic) started with that already, but lacked some
> time to finish it. Any help here is appreciated. Please get in touch with
> @drublic or me if you are interested to help.
>
> 3. FAL
> Steffen Ritter did a bunch of patches to stabilize the FAL integration.
> In that area we need help and especailly feedback and of course reviews for
> the Steffen's changes:
>
> https://review.typo3.org/14307
> https://review.typo3.org/14310
> https://review.typo3.org/14335
> https://review.typo3.org/14336
> https://review.typo3.org/14337
> https://review.typo3.org/14419
> https://review.typo3.org/14301
> https://review.typo3.org/13658
>
> 4. Language Handling Extension
> The extension to update translations kind of works, but is lacking
> functionality to update these via Ajax and needs further code cleanups.
> Kay Vogel started to work on that, but any additional help is appreciated.
>
> 5. Unit Tests
> Christian did a lot of cleanup and restructuring in this area.
> The top level tests folder is finally gone and the tests are moved to a
> Tests folder in the respective extensions. We now also have some integrity
> tests that check if new tests clutter the test environment, which would
> otherwise be hard to find out.
>
> 6. Namespaces
> A lot of cleanup and stabilisation work has already been done in this area,
> but there are also a lot of more things still missing.
>
> a)
> There is a Bug in PHP prior to 5.3.7 which affects the backwards
> compatibility layer with class_alias. This bug leads to the situation that
> type hints are not respected leading to fatal errors in code that uses old
> type hints in methods.
>
> Thomas Maroschik had the idea of rewriting such classes on the fly when the
> PHP version is blow 5.3.7. He tries to get a first version ready within the
> next days.
>
> b)
> We agreed upon the fact that the newly intoduced system extensions "cli" and
> "integrity" don't carry enough functionality to justify an own extension,
> thus the classes of cli should be moved to the core extension to
> sysext/core/Classes/Cli and the "integrity" extension classes back to the
> extension "lowlevel".
>
> Anybody who wants to do so and push patches to Gerrit is welcome.
>
> http://forge.typo3.org/issues/40949
> http://forge.typo3.org/issues/40950
>
> c)
> The Autoloader class should be renamed to ClassLoader and be moved to
> systext/core/Classes/Core
> http://forge.typo3.org/issues/40951
>
> d)
> We discussed that the Registry should be renamed to something else but did
> not have a good idea how this persistent key-value store could be named. Any
> ideas are welcome here.
>
> e)
> For backwards comaptibility we introduced a migrations file that holds the
> mapping between old an new class names.
> Currently this is one big file, which should be split into multiple ones, so
> that every extension can ship its own file.
>
> f)
> The scheduler and the form extension needs some adjustments. There is a
> patch already for scheduler, that need more reviews:
>
> https://review.typo3.org/14236
>
> g) Dokumentation
> All the namespace changes need to be documented. Especially the core
> documentation needs to be checked.
> We also need to give extension authors good advice how to code extensions
> for 6.0 and older TYPO3 versions at the same time.
>
> As a start Christian created a wiki page to collect all documentation in one
> place:
>
> http://wiki.typo3.org/Namespaces
>
>
> Last but not least we need to test the current state with widely used
> extensions like Templavoila or News. Depending on the results of these test
> we probably need to do further backward compatibility adjustments to the
> Core.
>
>
> As you can see a lot of things need to be done. Each of these tasks are
> rather small but still there are a many tasks. So if you have time and want
> to contribute, just pick one so that we can get it done until the final
> release.
>
> Thanks a lot.
>
>
> Kind regards,
> Helmut
>
> --
> Helmut Hummel
> Release Manager TYPO3 6.0
> TYPO3 Core Developer, TYPO3 Security Team Member
>
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