[TYPO3-ect] tx_party - Extension

[David Toshack]

The Web Empowered Church do a lot for the community and their extensions
are excellent! A lot of them are even very generic and I applaud
Christoph and the team for that. Kudos to you guys!

The problem, however, is that you only have to look at the extension
repository to see that there are literally _hundreds_ of excellent,
generic extensions out there that do the same thing.

Thats why the ECT was started. To define best practises for extension
development, and coordinate the efforts of the community in developing them.

This is a _really_ tough job in such a diverse community. But when a
project that is intended to be such a generic extension doesn't follow
their best practices; what hope do we have?!

Also, I don't believe sponsorship should be scattered throughout the
code itself. In any way, shape or form. Code is hard enough to follow as
it is. There are proper channels for that and probably more efficient
ones too.

Christoph and Jeff, I don't mean to criticize. I know sometimes its a
lot easier to "do it your own way". Even if its for the benefit of
everyone. I honestly think the WEC is an invaluable contributor to the
TYPO3 community and I am often in ore of your contributions and
community spirit. We all thank you!

I also believe you deserve to be repaid in some way for your efforts.
Maybe through sponsorship or some sort of miniature Christoph or WEC
team figurines we can all worship! :-D

Seriously though, the ECT has such a huge job on its hands, we _really_
need to work with them every step of the way on this sort of development
if this team is to accomplish its goals. That includes abiding by their
best practices for coordinated extension development. You're also quite
welcome to help contribute to these.

Although it was the tx_party/wec_people extension that triggered this
argument, please don't feel ostracised. There are a multitude of
extension developers this applies to. YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE! :-P  :-D

Even a quick glance at the extension repository will bring home the fact
that the ECT is an essential part of the TYPO3 structure and I hope this
post motivates more developers out there to work closer with the ECT and
help them accomplish their goals. They're doing it for all of us!


Cheers,
David