[TYPO3-dev] Ideas solving the bloated TER problem?

[Dan Osipov]

How about just simple comments & ratings for extensions? If extension is 
truly good, users would leave appropriate comments. This can be done 
with existing TYPO3 plugins ;)

Dan Osipov
Calkins Media
http://danosipov.com/blog/

bernd wilke wrote:
> On Thu, 12 Nov 2009 10:42:44 +0100 Stig Nørgaard Færch wrote:
> 
>> TER becomes more and more bloated with more or less redundant
>> extensions. Has there been any concensus on how to solve this problem?
>>
>> My thoughts:
>>
>> No good extension overview
>> TER doesn't provide a good oveview of what already exists. If I don't
>> find what I need, I create it. But maybe it already existed in the TER -
>> but I couldn't find it.
>> We really need categorization of extensions back.
> 
> ther already is a categorization, but not by theme/object of the 
> extensions
> 
>> Mangement of key extensions
>> When key extensions are managed by individuals, we have a greater risc
>> that development at some point stops. TYPO3 companies should manage key
>> extensions of TYPO3.
> 
> TYPO3 by itself is managed NOT by TYPO3 companies, why should extensions 
> be?
>  
>> Key extensions supported by the Association The Association should
>> support a specific key extension of each category (not necessarily with
>> money) which supports the most common features of that category. Then
>> decisionmaker with the money knows which ones are worth supporting.
> 
> this is planned for years by pushing good extension with tagging them 
> with a 'reviewed' status. Which is necessary if the association selects 
> an extension to prefer. It means responsibility for the correctness of 
> this extension.
> BUT: these reviews costs manpower / money.
> Support the association to get more reviews and you will get your 
> supported extensions.
> 
> also there is the possibility to rate extensions for everyone.
> maybe it would be more popular if there is a commenting/discussion thread 
> for each extension (like for firefox-extensions)
> 
> And maybe we could get a better categorization/search-algorithm if 
> everyone is allowed to tag an extension with his own keywords. there are 
> a lot of extension which miss (the right) keywords.
> 
>> Channelize money
>> It should be easier to donate money.
> 
> I think donation (to the association) is easy, maybe you would be happier 
> if you could bound your donation to a special purpose.
> 
> 
> bernd