[TYPO3-core] Moving Extensions out of the core into TER

[Roland]

i hope these extensions will then not be forgotten by their developing
teams and/or the TYPO3 integrators. maybe it could be helpful to mark some
(of those) extnsions as "recommended/premium/xyz" in TER?

roland


Xavier Perseguers <xavier at typo3.org> wrote:
> Hi Michael,
> 
>>>> I'd opt for keeping openid and form in the core.
>>> 
>>> Would be fine with me as well. We should just ensure the migration step
>>> takes care of retrieving them from TER and we would be done.
>> 
>> Please keep in mind, that not everyone will migrate from an old(er)
>> version but install TYPO3 the first time. Moving extensions from the
>> core to TER makes sense but also introduces a hurdle: you have to use
>> the EM to "activate" (install) certain features.
>> 
>> Again, not a problem for experienced Integrators, but maybe an issue for
>> newbies.
> 
> This is not relevant as having a few of those extensions out of Core
> would not make them part of the "feature set" of TYPO3 anymore. As such
> there is no need to activate them. If ones wants OpenID (let's say it is
> out of Core), then it is exactly the same process as integrating
> OpenLDAP authentication. Same for linkvalidator, this would be similar
> to installing additional_reports from TER.
> 
> So the problem is solely for existing installs relying on some of these
> system extensions which would not be "system" anymore and should be
> fetched automatically to prevent a crash of the install.