[Typo3-typo3org] 3000€ Extension Award 2006

Elmar Hinz elmar.hinz at vcd-berlin.de
Fri Nov 11 15:48:19 CET 2005


Hello extension developers?

do you want to get the "TYPO3 Extension Award 2006"?


Never heard of it? But you want to get it? Well let's call it a vision then.

During a lunch talk with some typo3 professionals we thought about how 
to bring order, reliability and interoperability into the extension 
thing. We came to the conclusion that user ratings, reviews and comments 
(maybe similar to user reviews at amazon) are the most importent strategy.

But there are still some open questions about quality that would best be 
solved with official certification of extensions.

Best practice standards for extensions:
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* "Extension Interoperability API" that still needs to be defined
* Full documentation
* Full sourcecode documentation
* Full support of languages, locales, realurl, frames
* Implemented hooks
* Existance and reachability of a support team for bugfixing etc.
* etc.

The extension review team like it was organized in the past never 
produced results. Over 1000 Extensions and no real motivation to do the 
boring reviews. It couldn't work this way.

Here enters "TYPO3 Extension Award" the scene. The target is to motivate 
extension developers to do the mayor part of the extension review work 
themselfs and to motivate a jury to verify this. To take part in the 
contest, candidates have to document themself, that their extension 
meets the official "Best Practice" requirements.

We estimate that only one ore two dozens extensions per year will be of 
a quality to meet all the requiremts to take part in the contest. So the 
work for the jury won't be to much and it is connected with a lot of honour.

The result per year should be:

* One Award winning extension
* Maybe a dozen officially certified extensions, that the community can 
really rely on and enjoy

If you think the idea of an "Extension Award" is a really cool thing 
then we still have to answer the question how to get the award sponsored.

Idea 1: Three sponsors of the award each give 1000€ and get named as the 
official award sponsors.

Idea 2: One sponsor of the award gives 3000€ and the award gets the name 
of the sponsor.

I am curious for your meanings about an extension award.

Regards

Elmar


P.S. We called the award the "Golden Kasper". ;-)






























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