[TYPO3-core] RFC: #11110 Add Extbase and Fluid as System Extensions

[Ernesto Baschny [cron IT]]

Sebastian KurfŸürst wrote: on 18.05.2009 10:35:

> I've been again thinking about the further development process of
> Extbase and Fluid. Currently we are still committing very rapidly (>10
> commits a day), and it would quite slow us down when we'd need to write
> an FYI every time. Thus I'd propose the solution below:
> 
>> I would include it as external until beta, then add as sysext and
>> continue after that with FYI-based commits from your team until release.
>> That should speed up improvements / fixes.
> 
> I just talked to Jochen and I think this is the right way to go.
> From Alpha3 to Beta, there will be still some bigger refactorings going
> on to clean up (mostly) internal API. Thus there will be versions of
> Extbase which might not always work. To fix this, I propose the following:
> 
> - We use SVN externals to include Extbase / Fluid into sysext, but we
> "pin" it to a certain revision number (using -r in svn:externals)
> - We develop Extbase / Fluid in CoreProjects as it is right now,
> potentially with lots of commits during a day
> - As soon as a big refactoring or another feature is completed, we write
> a FYI mail to the core list and increase the revision which is fetched
> by svn:externals.
> 
> 
> Thus, the version of Extbase in trunk will be more stable then in
> CoreProjects, and we will update the revision numbers in SVN externals
> every few days.
> 
> If that is good with everybody, I'll add the SVN:externals definition
> this afternoon. (@Olly in case you want to release earlier, you are
> welcome to do this as well!)

Great, sounds like a good plan.

Cheers,
Ernesto