[Typo3-dev] Smart Content Rendering

[dan frost]

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

Any time!

> 
>  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!

I think that we must *not* get distracted - there 
is a lot more to sort out before choosing new 
tools. The architecture needs a frightening 
overhaul, the TYPO3-specific stuff (including 
TypoScript) needs to be mapped - somehow - into a 
standard which non-TYPO3 people can understand and 
contribute towards.

Once everyone knows where TYPO3 is going, 
architectually, we can choose the tools to do it. 
This has happened already when Kasper started 
using sourceforge's CVS and splitting the 
workload, so it's not the central issue.

Anyway...

I understand that, if you've spent ages learning 
and building a business on TYPO3 that it's hard to 
think that thing are wrong. But, "we" must look at 
things more objectively and be nasty - if a 
decision was wrong, say so and fix it really soon.

As a short case-study, I've just built a library 
of various classes (file processing, XML 
processing, image manipulation, validation, form 
building etc..) in a few days using code 
generation. It meant that I had to throw out lots 
of the "good" code that i'd previously built but 
it also means that all the code I produce from now 
on is started (and, to an extent) through a 
graphical interface and becomes faster to make, 
learn and improve. btw: I will be publishing the 
code-generation code + some of the library soonish.

dan