[TYPO3] a thought about security announcements and automatic security alert

[Francois Suter]

Hi,

> I've just thought that it is really some work to check all "yours" TYPO3 
> installations to find out which one has security bug announced in 
> Security Bulletin.

Actually I had started thinking about something. Over time I have 
accumulated quite a lot of TYPO3 sites and I have trouble knowing which 
are running which version and using which extensions (at which version).

My idea was to develop an extension that can monitor other TYPO3 
installs. It would actually be a series of extensions:

- a BE module for the "master" install from which you survey the others
- a client module for each TYPO3 install to survey

Those 2 extensions would provide base services (i.e. retrieve info about 
TYPO3 version, extensions installed, etc.), but other extensions could 
add other views, for whatever each developer can think of. One service 
would be to add security bulletin info and automatically get a list of 
relevant TYPO3 installs.

This is quite a lot of work and I haven't progressed much yet, so I 
quite feel like sharing the development of this if there are some people 
interested in here. The project(s) would be hosted on forge.typo3.org 
obviously, which is very convenient for sharing both ideas and work.

What do you think? Anyone interested?

Cheers

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Francois Suter
Cobweb Development Sarl - http://www.cobweb.ch