[TYPO3-dev] getRecordOverlay vs getPageOverlay

[Oliver Salzburg]

On 2011-08-23 13:37, François Suter wrote:
> Hi,
>
>> Thank you. I reported the issue on the tt_news bugtracker.
>> What is needed for someone to take over development of an extension?
>
> You would need to contact the extension developer (Rupert Germann) and
> ask him. If he does not answer, you can petition for having the key
> transferred to you. That being said, tt_news is very important to the
> community and the transfer would probably not be allowed unless a team
> forms up.
>
> Then again Georg Ringer and a bunch of other people have been working on
> a new news extension, based on Extbase and Fluid [1]. It may be more
> worthwhile to join this effort than keep patching tt_news.
>
>> It looks like tt_news is licensed under GPL, are people allowed to fork
>> it and publish their new version on the TER?
>
> Sure, you may do so, although I would advise against it. IMO the TER is
> already polluted by lots of forks with little added value.
>
> Cheers
>

Ah, good to know. Where can I find more information about that new news
extension? It sounds like the way to go.

Thanks