[TYPO3-dev] getRecordOverlay vs getPageOverlay

[Oliver Salzburg]

On 2011-08-23 09:57, François Suter wrote:
> Hi Oliver,
>
>> Which resolves the issue for now. But I still don't really understand
>> why this happened. tt_news hasn't been updated in ages, so, was
>> getRecordOverlay for the pages table deprecated at some point?
>> Is my change even a viable fix? The documentation I found wasn't really
>> enlightening in those regards.
>
> I think you stumbled on a true bug. The difference between
> getRecordOverlay and getPageOverlay is that getRecordOverlay works only
> for tables which store both default language and translated records.
> This is not the case for the pages table, whose translations are stored
> in a different table (pages_language_overlay). Hence the different method.
>
> If any method should be deprecated it's getPageOverlay. Contrary to the
> comment found in getRecordOverlay it would not be difficult to implement
> handling of foreign tables for translations in getRecordOverlay. It just
> was never done.
>
> You should still report the bug in the tt_news bug tracker. It's true
> that it's not developed anymore at the moment (again), so I guess you
> will just have to run your patched version.
>
> Cheers
>

Thank you. I reported the issue on the tt_news bugtracker.
What is needed for someone to take over development of an extension?
It looks like tt_news is licensed under GPL, are people allowed to fork
it and publish their new version on the TER?