[TYPO3-ect] Party Information Framework - Status Report

[David Bruehlmeier]

Hi all,

Good news from the party front! :-) Sven Kalbhenn has joined the Party 
Information Framework project as a developer. He takes over the 
party_view component, which will be built upon lib/div. I would like to 
officially welcome Sven and thank you for your engagement in this 
crucial part of the Party Information Framework!

Personally, I have been working on the backend and on creating test data 
which we can use for unit tests and for proving that the framework can 
handle a fair amount of data. The test set contains more than 2,500 
parties and a total number of over 44,000 records. Furthermore, I keep 
in touch with Christoph Koehler and Marc Stephenson from the 
Web-Empowered Church. They are currently planning a new Church 
Management extension which will be using the Party Information Framework.

The backend is now fully functional, although a lot of things are 
obviously still missing or in a pre-alpha state. I have made heavy use 
of IRRE, so TYPO3 4.1 is a strict prerequisite.

I invite you all to check out the latest release from Subversion 
(tx_party) and to install the test data  (tests/test_data.sql). The 
records are all written to PID 1 so make sure this page is as 
sys-folder. And don't forget to set the "General Records Storage Page" 
to that same page as well.

As of next week, I will start to build the model part of the API, 
enabling Sven to start with the integration of party_view. Since this is 
the first time I will be working with lib/div, I'm not sure how much 
time this will take. We'll see....

All feedback and all helping hands are welcome!

Have a nice weekend,
Dave