[TYPO3-ttnews] screencasts tt_news

[Žiga Dolhar]

Hi Ben & List,

In your position, I'd ask myself what I'd like to achieve with- and what 
is the main purpose of "introductory package".

If it is a demonstration of what "has been" possible to do with typo3, 
then go with the most used stable version of typo3 and most used 
extensions. tt_news, ve_guestbook. That is, if you would like to 
demonstrate what "has already been done, by existing developers, for 
existing developers".

If, however, you'd like (and I would think this is the reasoning behind 
the concept of introductory packages) to introduce typo3 to new users, 
then I'd ditch the "most used in the past" approach and try the "what 
we'd like to be done in the future". It would probably be easier for a 
new developer to grasp typo3 if he had news & comments on his hands, 
compared to tt_news and ve_guestbook. I believe the introoductory 
package is not targeted at existing developers, but new ones. I would 
think there's a wider interest in phasing out tt_news and replacing it 
with some other extension.

And, of course, there is one additional and very selfish reason for my 
writing this post :-). Inclusion of news into introductory package and 
its wider spread (deployment and use) would put some welcome pressure on 
Georg to continue working on his extension :-).

Yours,
Žiga


On 30.1.2012 17:22, ben van 't ende wrote:
> Hey Lorenz,
>
> 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. I have no idea what the state of news is atm, but
> it is not feature complete, is it?
>
> gRTz ben
>
>
>
> On 28/01/12 00:54, Lorenz Ulrich wrote:
>> Hi Ben
>>
>> How about doing a screencast on "news"? Isn't it kind of anachronism to do
>> screencasts about tt_news at its current state? Everyone knows that the code is
>> hardly maintainable and maintained and Georg and co. are investing quite some
>> time in "news".
>>
>> Best regards,
>>
>> Lorenz
>>
>> Am 27.01.2012 23:25, schrieb ben van 't ende:
>>> Heyla,
>>>
>>> The screencast team is doing some video's on tt_news. One of the topics will be
>>> configuration of tt_news. The team would like to have some suggestions on the
>>> most common used configurations and would like some input. Please let us know
>>> what you think should be in this video.
>>>
>>> The screencast team is located: http://forge.typo3.org/projects/typo3-screencast/
>>>
>>> gRTz ben
>>
>