[TYPO3-dev] Multiple Authors of one extension

[Sebastian Gebhard]

Currently the doc_core_api, the TER and the EM do not really support multiple authors for one extension.

extbase_kickstarter was designed to support multiple Persons involved in an extension with different 
roles (Project Manager and Developer at the moment) and now I tried how to represent that in 
ext_emconf.php

Assuming the following Persons:

Name: Anthony
Company: Agency
Role: Project Manager
Email: anthony at agency.com


Name: Billy
Company: BlueOffice
Role: Developer
Email: billy at blue-office.org

Name: Charly
Company: CharmingWeb
Role: Developer
Email: charly at charmingweb.info

Now I "solved" it like this:

	'author' => 'Anthony,Billy,Charly',
	'author_email' => 'anthony at agency.com,billy at blue-office.org,charly at charmingweb.info',
	'author_company' => 'Agency,BlueOffice,CharmingWeb',

But the EM badly supports this, because it results in a Mail link like:
"mailto:anthony at agency.com,billy at blue-office.org,charly at charmingweb.info"

I'd go for a clean solution an introduce an array for persons on ext_emconf:

'persons' => array(
	array(
		'name' => 'Anthony',
		'email' => 'anthony at agency.com',
		'company' => 'Agency',
		'role' => 'Product Manager',
	),
	array(
		'name' => 'Billy',
		'email' => 'billy at blue-office.org',
		'company' => 'BlueOffice',
		'role' => 'Developer',
	),
	// and so on..
),

TER and EM would need updates then. What do you think?

Kind regards,
Sebastian