[TYPO3-ect] tx_party - Extension

[Steffen Kamper]

"David Toshack" <david at vaultin.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag 
news:mailman.1.1208309966.9495.typo3-team-extension-coordination at lists.netfielders.de...
> 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

Hi David,

i feel same. Ingo fights a long time for better extension keys as well.
IMHO there shouldn't be a prefix with name of company in extension key 
itself, the key should express what extension does.
There are other information fields for extension, and i think that they 
should get some new fileds like
* sponsor name
* sponsor link

So when you browser TER in future the Sponsor is more prominent which could 
make it attractiv to sponsor extensions for companies, and they are happy 
though the name is not in the key itself.

vg Steffen