[TYPO3-ect] Party Information Framework: Please vote!

[Robert Lemke]

Hi folks,

Oliver Hader schrieb:

>> It's decision time! After the kick-off in Dietikon, not much has been
>> going on with the Party Information Framework. This was mostly due to
>> the decision we made at the Developer Days to wait for the possible
>> cooperation with the commercial project as presented by Robert. After
>> all, it seems as though this will not come true anytime soon.

yes, that is definitive: I now know that the commercial project has been 
canceled.

>> B) Start with 4.1 on our own
>> We might start right away with the design and development of the Party
>> Information Framework, based on 4.1. If the commercial project starts
>> anyway, Robert may or may not decide to cooperate with us, but we will
>> not focus on that possibility.

>> C) Join forces with the 5.0 team
>> We might decide to leave out the 4-string all together and start working
>> with the gimme5-team from the very beginning.


I think that it's possible to create a solution which keeps 5.0 in mind 
but already runs with 4.x. It's more a question of layering and 
abstraction. Of course we don't know yet how a business layer in 5.0 
looks like or how templating will work but as long as we keep the layers 
below clean and don't open lots of inter-dependencies with other parts 
of TYPO3, it will be fairly easy to create a 5.0 version later on.

In fact I think that inter-dependencies is the most important part of it 
- make sure that you don't rely on the framework (4.x) if not really 
neccessary and if you do, try to implement it in a way that dependencies 
can be configured (eg. passed in a constructor or by setting a property).

So my vote (if I have any): Go for B and try to work as clean as 
possible - then you're always on the safe side.

Cheers,
robert