[TYPO3-project-4-3] Disable Versioning and Workspaces

[Steffen Ritter]

Steffen Kamper schrieb:
> Hi Ernesto,
> 
> Ernesto Baschny [cron IT] schrieb:
>> That would be neat, but I think this will bring in the same problems we
>> have already with DBAL.
>>
>> There are still plenty of people *using* those features, notably
>> workspaces, and those are usually not the ones that could continue
>> "maintaining" it, but are just users. Moving that stuff away from the
>> core will make every future change to these parts of the core "unaware"
>> of workspaces, and at the end it will simply "break" and noone that
>> broke it will care (because those are the ones that are not using it)
>> and those who are using it won't be able to do anything (because they
>> aren't even sure why it broke).
>>
>> We see the same stuff happening in DBAL, it breaks all the time, there
>> are dozens of patches that come in which doesn't care about DBAL at all
>> and there are just a very few people that still try to make it work
>> (Xavier et al) or at least consider it when reviewing a patch (like Masi
>> reminding people patching t3lib_db not to forget DBAL).
>>
>> Basically it is sad that we have no real manpower to "get into"
>> workspaces / versioning and to really continue maintaining it as it
>> should. Because it is a cool feature and - yes - it is being
>> productively used by a lot of "big TYPO3 players".
>>
> 
> the idea is not to remove it from core, the idea is to make core not 
> dependend on loading version. Core should work without and the 
> isLodaed-calls should be removed instead using a real API for it.
> I know it's not a simple task, but a start would be to disable version 
> and see where it doesn't work and fix it. Maybe this helps with moving 
> version/workspace related stuff into a central place
> 
> vg Steffen
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