[Typo3-dev] Smart Content Rendering

[Wolfgang Klinger]

 Hi!

 On Mon, 24 Oct 2005, dan frost wrote the following:
> The fact is that most "solutions" in TYPO3 are not 
> ideal and are based on very TYPO3-specific 
> architecture. This might be "ok" and "nice" for 
> TYPO3 users, but there is a VERY good reason why 
> other people (open source and proprietary) use 
> common patterns, methods, techniques, languages 
> etc - it's tested by more people, it's more widely 
> supported and it's understood by more people.
> 
> My advise: think "what is the fastest, easiest and 
> most efficient way to USE something" (templating, 
> configuration, etc etc). Start implementing THAT 
> solution NOW - any effort spent on maintaining 
> weird, old stuff will ultimately be wasted.

 Thanks for that Dan! I highly appreciate such clear messages.

 And yes that's criticism, criticism on Kasper and others but please read,
 understand and act accordingly! It will get you and this project
 nowhere if you hang on to your (sometimes simply wrong or outdated) 
 practices. Listen to others, please (and not always to the same people
 too)! Think out of the box and take a look at how others (and other
 Open Source projects) do it.

 I often think about joining the "Core team" but
 I hesitate for several reasons:
    - first I wonder if I even get support to join them
        (as I'm one of the notorious critics) :-)
    - second question is if there's enough freedom to innovate(?)
    - simply can't make friends with CVS (I favor Subversion or Darcs)
        (my first action would be to convince people and organize
        a Subversion repository for Core development, setup Trac and
        to build a really productive development environment)

 It would be interesting to get some feedback here, tia!


 kind regards
 Wolfgang