[TYPO3-ect] Announcing TER cleanup process

[Franz Holzinger]

Hello Jigal,

Le 10. 03. 13 08:28, Jigal van Hemert a écrit :
> Hi Franz,
>
> On 10-3-2013 7:27, Franz Holzinger wrote:
>> I have an additional proposal:
>> Remove all versions of all extensions from TER with an upload date
>> before January 2010.
>> The code will be 3 years old at the end of 2013. No maintenance will be
>> longer. The extension author can upload a newer version if he wants to.
>> This would remove about 50% of all extensions from TER (my estimation).
>
> Instead of any really destructive operation we've opted for marking
> these extensions as "outdated".
> Because these outdated extensions will not be shown in search results
> (unless you activate the option to include them) and will not be shown
> in the EM. This way the extensions are still available with some effort,
> for example if you want to make your own, improved version :-)
>
> I think the current plans have the same impact, but are a bit less
> destructive. What do you think?

No, I disagree.
1. E.g. if you search for an extension and include also the outdated 
extensions, then you will get a very long list. I cannot image that 
someone will still need an extension which is 4 years or older. I would 
be better to have a smaller list of extensions which are all younger 
than 4 years. Then you have to filter out less extensions.

2. Many old extensions cause collisions with other extensions or even 
with TYPO3. Therefore I have to include them in the extension's file 
ext_emconf.php under the conflicts array. I would like to make this list 
smaller and see most of these extensions disappeared from the TER. E.g. 
they have been written for tt_products 1.2.7 from the year 2003 and will 
not work together with any never version since 2004. And they will never 
work in TYPO3 3.8.x or higher. Why will they still be in TER in 2014? 
Who will ever need them? I think that they only cost time to users who 
find them when they search for a shop extension. It does not help to set 
the deprecation flag.
If someone wants to write a an extension based on the code of an 
outdated extension, then he can still upload it into TER. So there is no 
need to keep it in TER in the meantime.
You could put them into an archive anywhere else. But they should not 
remain in TER:

- Franz