[TYPO3-ect] Statistics: TYPO3 extensions without a TYPO3 dependency setting (Apr/2013)

[Jigal van Hemert]

Hi,

On 6-4-2013 11:38, Elmar Hinz wrote:
>> Numerous times it happened to people who don't know the inner magic of
>> TYPO3 that they installed an extension and were locked out of the
>> backend because of fatal errors cause by the extension that was just
>> installed. A valid maximum version will prevent this.
>
> It's nice to know, what you wish from Santa Claus. But you forget the
> exendsions are developed by humans.
> As the numbers provided by Michael show, it's a minority bothering to
> set up versions at least one time. Expecting them suddenly to update
> versions multiple times a year?

Well, we don't have to wait for Santa Claus or the Tooth Fairy :-)

While some of us set up the requirements to be able to actually store if 
an extension is compatible with a certain core version, you could get in 
contact with the TER team and help them with a voting mechanism inside 
the EM. If there is a statistically sound method to say that a certain 
voting distribution by a large enough number of voters means that an 
extension works or works not with a certain core version, it can be used 
to update the dependency setting in TER.

> That would fullfill your desire without waiting for Santa Claus.
> * You collect the information if it is working for the latest version.
> * You motivate the maintainers to fix extensions, that are broken.

Not my desire, the desire of most integrators. Anyway, as I've explained 
earlier it's not one thing or the other. You can work with the TER team 
on the feedback / rating and together we can have an extension manager 
which gives us the extensions that are known to work with your TYPO3 
version. We can even make a check before an upgrade and show which 
extensions have a version that is compatible with the version you'd like 
to upgrade to.

-- 
Jigal van Hemert
TYPO3 CMS Core Team member

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