[TYPO3-hci] TYPO3 4.2 blog entry

[Dmitry Dulepov [typo3]]

Hi!

Niels Fröhling wrote:
>> Why don't you do it then if it is easy? :)
>>   
> Because I don't want to fork typo3, and I prefer to have a comunity 
> participating and backupped solution.

You do not need to fork. Anyone can submit patch to TYPO3. And many members of the community already do so.

>> I guess you didn't come to t3dd08, where some radical ideas were 
>> proposed but estinates is half a year of dedicated work.
>>   
> I left germany long ago to a far far place. :-)
> So no chance for me to come by ...

I am not in Germany as well (it took me 5 hours to travel) and I guess half of participants were not from Germany. Unless you are outside Europe, this is not really a reason ;)

> I do what I can without forking: t3skin_adsignum/t3skin_frohling
> The problem that you immediately face customizing the typo-GUI is the 
> missing underlying GUI-paradigma. You have to start to introduce hacks 
> for single elements that are horrible to address because they are not 
> IDd (fe.: the versioning "button", the only non-icon? why?). I often 
> wish the GUI would be as thoroughly classed and tagged (thead, tfoot, 
> caption, ...) and hierarchicaly grouped as css_styled_content.

Have you posted patches to bug tracker or change requests to core list? No?.. Then no one will put your changes to TYPO3. We have a certain policy. Anyone can get his changes into TYPO3 if they are reasonable and implemented well. Making hacks only for yourself and keeping them private does not really help to improve TYPO3 in general. Look what Steffen Kamper and others do: they already improved TYPO3 so much by posting patches to core list.

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Dmitry Dulepov
TYPO3 core team
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