[TYPO3-v4] TYPO3 4.5 LTS and new hooks policy

[François Suter]

Hi all,

As a general rule, we don't introduce new hooks in stable branches. I 
was wondering whether this rule should be enforced strictly for 4.5, 
since it will be around for a very long time.

Case in point: since 4.3 we have been working on separating all 
versioning/workspaces-related code from the Core. This implied having a 
number of hooks added to the Core, so that versioning could "insert 
itself" at all the right places. This is not complete yet and - 
unsurprisingly - buggy in some places. To solve some of these issues 
(see [1] for a sample), the clean way would be to introduce new hooks. 
If we say that hooks go only to 4.6, it means that some bugs will *not* 
get resolved at all in 4.5, while some other may be solved with unclean 
solutions.

What's your opinion on this?

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Francois Suter
Cobweb Development Sarl - http://www.cobweb.ch

[1] A sampling of bugs:
http://forge.typo3.org/issues/12868
http://bugs.typo3.org/view.php?id=17117