[TYPO3-dev] SCOTTY - Global *S*emantic *C*ategory, *O*ntology, *T*ag and *T*axonomy S*y*stem

[Rik Willems]

Hi Joey,

Great innitiative. I'm signing up.

As many describe it should be modular, or flexible. This is a very 
important thought because no one will use this the same way. With my 
categorization extension I tried to do that. Since a global feature like 
this will work more or less the same way regardless of the 
implementation a 'base' ext would be great.

I found that the enableFields hook is a nice place to start. But, it is 
limited since it only allows you to add where statements. So, you can't 
add m2m or m2o relations. An additional hook in the core would be needed 
to get SCOTTY working properly, I think.

That brings me to a feature that seems important to me. I think that it 
should work alongside current extensions and not require any changes in 
those extensions. You should not need to use typoscript to copy the 
behaviour of that extension, but you must use that extension for 
everything it does and use SCOTTY to select the right records.

Looking at the responses to this post and my previous post concerning 
ext:categorization this would be a great project!

Greets, Rik

JoH asenau schreef:
> It seems that it's time for a global solution for tags, categories,
> taxonomies and ontologies in TYPO3.
> 
> I recently had some talks with some possible investors who told me the same
> and who might support such a global system.
> But first we have to show them, that we really do mean it seriously this
> time.
> This is why I registered an extension key and set up a project on forge,
> that is visible since today
> 
> So may I introduce you to SCOTTY:
> http://forge.typo3.org/projects/show/extension-scotty
> 
> Don't expect too much content there, but maybe you can already join the
> team, write some wishes to the wiki or do other stuff, that shows there is a
> real demand for this feature and there are people who are willing to *work
> in this team do get the job done just in time*. I will offer parts of the
> tagpack as a base we can start with, and maybe there are other extensions as
> well, we should consider as candidates for integration or adoption of
> interesting features.
> 
> The plan is to have something ready for 4.5 and to make it a fully
> integrated sysext later on. But since it will be a major feature that might
> influence lots of different areas of FE and BE, don't expect it to be part
> of the core immediately.
> 
> We are currently in the fund raising phase. I can not tell you more before
> the deal is fixed, but I can assure you that this will be done anyway, with
> or without that deal. So if this looks like a job for you, try to join the
> team. Drop me a few lines about why you think that you should be part of the
> project and what you could do for it.
> 
> And to quote Nike again: Just do it!
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Joey
>