[TYPO3-ect] Ideas to clean up TER

[Michael]

On 30/01/12 01:35, Franz Holzinger wrote:

>>> - What to do with extensions which are not in forge? [...]
>>
>> Automatically created forge projects? Can forge handle this load? A
>> substantial number of extensions is put in TER (sometimes because of
>> project requirements) while nobody is interested in maintaining them.
>> This would add a load to forge, which in the end should be cleaned up
>> too.
> 
> Forge should not be used here.

I have the same opinion: not every developer wants to use forge and we
should not force them to use it. Automatically created forge projects
would only cause zombies projects.

>>> Regarding the other stuff in this discussion: I'd prefer not to delete
>>> the extensions from TER, but hide them in some setting in the extension
>>> manager. Like we had "only search reviewed extensions" before.
>>
>> And the point would be? Most integrators would be annoyed that they
>> "had" to set this setting first before getting access to all the
>> extensions. Same as we had with the reviewed extension setting.
>> That's not cleaning up, but making old stuff a little less obvious.

Good point - I think we should differentiate between the TER search, EM
and other "systems"... and how they handle unmaintained extensions. EM
should (could) exclude them. TER search could list but highlight them as
"unmaintained", etc.

Cheers
Michael