[TYPO3-ect] TYPO3ext: direct_mail mergers & acquisitions

[Jan-Hendrik Heuing]

Good morning!

> A) The partner framework.
> B) Direct mail
> C) Stanlis' FE User Registration:
> D) Where to store the Data:
> E) Making it one Project?

What do you see being the core of the whole project (or collection of
small projects)? I have read those wiki-things as well. 

There is a discussion on what extensions to connect and what not. What
is the overall picture?

I see different things popping in:

1. If you talk about a partner framework, you probably talk about
personalized pages as well. This concludes that if used in large
environments, performance, speed is a problem, therefore costs as well.
This again concludes that caching is an important topic.

2. If you talk about dmail-subscription, registration, ways of getting
users to subscribe to things, you probably could invest some time in a
standard layer to access, write user-data to different tables related to
different cases. This has already been mentioned, so nothing new.

3. Then there is a pool of extensions which should use a common base of
features (tbd, examples are display of userdata and stuff like that). So
I guess there could be some standard plugin mechanism to make
functionality available to other plugins. Via a common base, as well as
via extensions.

There are probably more which pop up later. These are "only" things
which extensions could base on. There is no real functionality yet. But
they seem important to me. To quote Kasper: "code first, human later",
to make it future proof, I guess there could be some work in these
things.

What are your ideas about those points:
1. Caching (Speed, Performance...) 
2. User-API
3. Plugin-Mechanism

I am very interested in 1 and 3, 2 is also interesting, but I see that
as something popping up in one or the other way, while not being to
complicate. For those 2, I could also imagine, that it's work which
could be as initiator for those topics being common problems to be
included in version5-thoughts. I will in any way go into that caching
thing, or more generally: improving speed to make use of typo3 in
large-scale environments, while having partly dynamic content.

Jan-Hendrik