[TYPO3-v4] [TYPO3-GSoC] RFC GSoC 2011 Project Static File Caching

[Oliver Hader]

Hi dear TYPO3 Community,

as you might have read in the past, there are several Google Summer of
Code Projects at the TYPO3 Project in 2011. One of them is the Static
File Caching Project done by Ryan Graham.

Since Google Summer of Code is almost coming to an end ("pencils down
date" is August 22nd 2011), we like to ask you for your feedback and
comments on the current state.

During the last weeks Ryan analyzed the current behaviour of the
available solutions and e.g. had a look into nc_staticfilecache, Varnish
Caches, the general cache flow of the TYPO3 Core and also into ExtJS.
The results are now in a new system extension "staticfilecache"
(typo3/sysext/staticfilecache/) which implements several components of
the caching framework and also creates a new backend module based on
ExtJS that shall help backend administrators to manage (refresh or
clear) existing cached elements.

You can test and try the current implementation by checking out the
project's Git repository and you are encouraged to report bugs and
suggestions to the accordant issue tracker on forge.typo3.org:

git://git.typo3.org/TYPO3v4/CoreProjects/staticfilecache.git
http://forge.typo3.org/projects/gsoc2011-staticfilecache

When looking into the code and filing new issues, please always remember
that the Google Summer of Code project is dedicated to bring new
developers to accordant open source projects. This also means that
TYPO3, it's concept, behaviour and implementation was completely new to
Ryan back in May 2011 when he started with the GSoC project. So I kindly
ask you to report your findings, but still be helpful and constructive -
because there are some flaws and missing features for sure.

Thanks in advance!

Cheers,
Olly
-- 
Oliver Hader
TYPO3 v4 Core Team Leader

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