[TYPO3-timtab] [Announcement] Timo Webler as Co-Leader

[Ingo Renner]

Hi all,

I'd like to announce Timo Webler as a Co-Leader for the TIMTAB project.

Timo is a colleague of me at d.k.d Internet Service and is currently 
tasked to implement a blog using TIMTAB at one of our customers. Timo 
has shown that he understands the concepts of TIMTAB and TYPO3 and has 
skills in object oriented programming and quality assurance.


I'm very happy that Lina and the Berlin TYPO3 user group started 
reviving the project! Timo and me took a look at the changes made and 
found some good ideas.
However, we also found some issues regarding code style and general 
conceptual integration with the TYPO3 core.

Therefore Timo will first be doing some code clean up, bringing the 
existing code base up to current coding standards including PHP5 and 
current CGLs. After this has been done we will do some cherry picking 
from all the different code branches in SVN.
I especially like the idea of the widget system but we figured that it 
should be done a little different to integrate better with TYPO3 and its 
best practices - e.g. not extending tt_content which is considered bad 
practice since the introduction of flexforms.

Timo will be in the Co-Leader position until the clean-up is finished. 
We will need to see whether we need such a position after that task has 
been finished.

In the end we hope to finally be able to release a new and working 
version of TIMTAB in the TER.

I've set up an issue tracker on forge with some pre-defined categories 
and a first target version for code cleanup targeted for the end of the 
year so that we don't have to rush for anything.

Important: From now on I'd like to ask to first file issues with patches 
in the issue tracker before directly committing any changes unless you 
have written consent from me to do direct commits. We will have a look 
at the patches and you can commit them once they have been approved. The 
process will not be as strict as in the core. We need to stick to some 
sort of process though to assure to deliver a high quality extension to 
the TYPO3 community.


Again, I'm very happy to see the TIMTAB project being alive again. 
Please keep contributing to the best TYPO3 blogging solution out there.


all the best
Ingo

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Ingo Renner
TYPO3 Core Developer, Release Manager TYPO3 4.2