[TYPO3-dev] collaboration work & typoscript & svn

[Michael Knoll]

Krystian Szymukowicz schrieb:
> 
> hi
> 
> I'd like to ask you if you could share your experience of how do you do 
>  collaborative work on bigger TYPO3 projects where more than one person 
> do the changes.
> 
> I am just on the beginning of collecting ideas. Right now I have:
> 
> 1) SVN
> 
> 2) Moving all "template typoscript" from template records to files.
> 
> 3) Moving all "page typoscript" from template records to files.
> 
> 4) Moving all "user typoscript" from template records to files.
> 
> 5) Leaving one template record in database. This template record will 
> contain constants with reference to page uids typical to page tree which 
> can be different at local, development and production servers.
> For example *constants* section could have:
> a) at local server
> plugin.tt_news.pid_list = 88
> plugin.tx_myplugin.page_with_content_uid = 33
> ....
> b) at development server
> plugin.tt_news.pid_list = 884
> plugin.tx_myplugin.page_with_content_uid = 334
> ....
> c) at production server
> plugin.tt_news.pid_list = 188
> plugin.tx_myplugin.page_with_content_uid = 1243
> ....
> 
> 6) I'd like also to separate default "page TS", "user TS", "template TS" 
> as extension. Something like "cbstarter" extension of Michael Cannon.
> So this will be standard piece of TS code used in all my projects and it 
> will be extended/overwritten by TS settings specific to implementation.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Now my doubts are:
> 1) Do you put all "template TS" into one big file ? Or you have separate 
> file for:
> a) "config.ts"
> b) "plugins/tt_news.ts"
> c) "plugins/css_styled_content.ts"
> d) "plugins/...
> e) "subparts/main-menu.ts"
> f) "subparts/footer.ts"
> g) "subparts/...
> etc.
> 
> Working with one big file is IMO not effective and could bring svn 
> conflicts, but is there any drawback of separating "template TS" into 
> 10-15 small files ? What is your opinion?
> 
> 
> 
> What else do you propose to make that collaborative work more efficient?
> Redmine? :)
> 
> 
> 

Hi Krystian,

perhaps this article from Fabrizio Branca can help you a little:

http://www.fabrizio-branca.de/fablog/post/why-typoscript-should-go-into-files.html


Greetings

Michael