[TYPO3-ect] Concept of global categories

[Elmar Hinz]

Ingo Renner wrote:
> 
> I think it was me who proposed this in the wiki.
> The point is that it is sometimes anoying to see that every extension
> brings it's own categories.
> 
> -global categories (per site) could be easyier for the customers and also
> eaier for the developers since they don't hev to care that much about it
> anymore
> -problems I see are things like the tt_news categories which have several
> properties that need still to be handled per extension I think
> -to use the categories from DAM might be a good idea, but I haven't thought
> about that yet
> -the categories should still be limited per site and not super global for
> an entire installation IMHO
> 

Hi guys,

the topic of global categoies is still open and waits for a solution. It is
time that someone picks it up and makes it a project. That shouldn't be to
difficult.

You more are less need to extract a nice category tree out of DAM or
elswhere, make it an separate extension and provide an API for other
extensions to connect.

Doing this one time will save you a lot of work in your next projects. Who
volunteers for this?

I think it should be done in 3 steps:

1.) Specification what is needed => wiki
2.) Acceptance by the R&D for the 4.x branch at least
3.) Implementation

Who volunteers to coordinate Step 1.)?
Who supports step 1.)?

If this is done 2. and 3. will follow.

Regards


Elmar