[TYPO3-ect] tx_party - Extension

[Niels Pardon]

Hi,

Franz Koch schrieb:

> why does the extension name need to be changed? I can only speak for 
> myself, but if there where two extensions in TER doing the same, one 
> called 'tx_party' and one called 'wec_people' - I'd definitely install 
> 'tx_party', because 'wec_people' is assuming that it's not a general 
> extension due to the personalized extension key (like it is for 98% of 
> the extensions in TER that are rubbish).
> 
> The only extension with a extension key like 'wec_whatever' that I've 
> tested is 'wec_maps' - and that only because of 'tx_cal' (which is also 
> WEC powered, but doesn't have a personalized ext key).
> 
> So I share Davids thoughts - you will get much more support if the 
> extension key is not 'wec_whatever'. I think everybody would benefit if 
> the name of the 'main' party extensions remains 'tx_party' and that 
> 'wec_people' is a addon, preconfiguring 'tx_party' for 
> churches/ministrys, that are to specific for a general party extension.
> 
> That's at least for me the idea behind a ECT driven extension.

First, I fully agree with Franz.

I was at David Brühlmeier's talk at T3DD07 and as far as I remember 
there were some people who wanted to help in developing tx_party. There 
were also some names in the TYPO3 wiki who offered there help.

But I didn't see any progress in tx_party since T3DD07 and that's still 
the case since it is renamed to wec_people. One reason was may be that 
for a long time the OASIS standard wasn't officially released. That 
changed on 19. March 2008 and still nothing happened.

I think that, if there would have been more clearly defined tasks there 
would have been more people who would have helped in developing 
tx_party. I thought that David Brühlmeier as the former project leader 
would have taken this step and defined some tasks.

If I had some clearly defined tasks to choose from I would have taken 
one off the list and helped developing it. But I didn't know where to start.

As the demand for such a extension increases obviously (see the posts on 
the mailling lists the last months asking for tx_party) I think it is 
more than ever an important topic for the ECT. And I think it was a bad 
idea to take tx_party out of the ECT and moving it out to the WEC.

Just my 2 cents.

Greets,

Niels