[TYPO3-ect] Announcing TER cleanup process
Jigal van Hemert
jigal.van.hemert at typo3.org
Tue Mar 12 10:21:37 CET 2013
Hi,
On 12-3-2013 7:33, Franz Holzinger wrote:
> > The discussions around this initiative started more than a year ago and
> > after weighing the pros and cons, we have come to the conclusion that
> > classifying and filtering unmaintained extensions is better than
> > removing them.
>
> but I think that some older extension do not make any sense any more,
> because they are forks of other extensions. Why should outdated forks
> still remain in TER?
> I think that very old extensions (5 years and older) should be evaluated
> if they could be useful or not. And unuseful extensions should be removed.
Extensions belong to the author(s). I don't think we have any policy or
rule that says that we can delete extensions because of these reasons.
For every day use the "outdated" extensions will not be shown in TER.
Only if you explicitly turn on the option to show "outdated" extensions.
This is not something you do by accident.
People can be very sensitive about their extensions. I've already
received some messages that people wouldn't appreciate it if their
extensions would be deleted (to put it mildly).
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Jigal van Hemert
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