[TYPO3-ttnews] screencasts tt_news

[ben van 't ende]

heyla,

ok maybe number of downloads is not the best criterium, but it means something
doesn't it? and until now tt_news is used a lot. for the rest i just don't know
about the state of news. i hear some rumors left and right. some good some
saying it is not finished. at this moment i can not really tell when we need to
change an extension. the introduction package hardly contains extensions. only
the most basic ones. we don't really need to check that often.

to me it also feels news will replace tt_news in the long run, but for now the
screen cast team likes to focus on widely used extensions like tt_news.

gRTz ben


On 31/01/12 08:20, Jigal van Hemert wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On 30-1-2012 17:22, ben van 't ende wrote:
>> For the time being we still use tt_news in the Introduction Package, that is why
>> we still want to use tt_news in a screencast. You can surely complain about
>> tt_news how it is built, but until now it is the most downloaded extension and I
>> regard it as feature complete.
> 
> The fact that it's the most downloaded extension is a completely irrelevant
> argument. Take a look a the most popular extensions, some of them are still
> alpha or beta, some are unmaintained (one with no updates since 2005)(they will
> be removed if the TER clean up is approved), some should be obsolete (integrated
> in core or the extension they were made for), most are very hard to customize.
> 
> Maybe the contents of the Introduction Package should be reconsidered from time
> to time. Are the extensions which are included really the things we would like
> to show to new users (also take code quality, ease of use, etc. into
> consideration) ?
> 

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