[Typo3-extrev] Dead horses?

[Elmar Hinz]

Rainer (Rene) Suthoelder wrote:
> funny turn here:
> 
> the extension voting system was dismised last year in favour of the 
> extension review process - and now we are nearly back with user-based rating 
> system.
> and yes: in my eyes it makes much more sense to let registered typo3.org 
> users rate extensions because this gives some real world feedback on the 
> usefullness of an extension.
> 
> as elmar suggested: there should be some pre-defined categories, like "fully 
> supports CSS", "complexity", "template system", "cacheable", "supports 
> indexed search", "supports multilang" and so on.
> 

Do you imagine this categories as yes/no checkboxes as rating from 1-10 
or as freetext input?

> combine this with a rating from 1-10 and collect some dozens of votes and 
> voila: you have a fairly good picture if an extension could help you in your 
> project...
> 
> this user-based rating doesn"t not mean that the extension review process 
> should be completely dismissed, but we have the extrev project for a year 
> now and nothing has happened. the reason for this: it simply takes to much 
> time & work to do so on a volunteer basis. even if it would be nice to have 
> an official label "typo3 certified extension" i don't see this to be happen 
> in the short- or the mid-term.
> 

Maybe we could get "typo3 certified extensions" on community base. 
Define a catalogue of criteria that should be matched to get certified 
and then let users vote for each criteria if it is matched for the 
current version.

To evalute if the extension is certified an algorhitm could be used that 
includes the amount of votes, some must have criterias and a percentage 
level that must be reached.


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