[Typo3-typo3org] project help wanted corner

[Elmar Hinz]

> 
> Great idea, and I dare to say that we (the typo3.org webmasters) will gladly
> help anybody wanting to establish that. Just come forward with a more
> detailed proposal how this would be structed, look like and realized! I
> mean it.
> 

Hello Karsten,

as for myself I haven't a very detailed view of it. I only can tell my 
story of feeling very alone as an extension maintainer. That brought me 
to the ideal that an "extension job board" could be usefull.

When I published vcd_calendar I didn't expect it so time intensiv to 
maintain it. I was looking for other people that would support me in 
implementing bugfixes and development, but nobody voluntered for it. 
Instead a lot of bugfixes and feature requests came in.

So the vcd_calendar became on of the sleeping extensions. For this 
reason Jens Witt reimplemented vcd_calendar as jw_calandar. Now  there 
are two sleeping projects that are quite the same.

The reason why I did vcd_calendar was because the row of tt_calendar > 
advCalendar > advCalendarExtended was a mess, unmaintained and bugy as 
it was at that time. calendar came out in prallel for the same reasons.

You can make up this row: tt_calendar > advCalendar > 
advCalendarExtended > vcd_calendar > jw_calendar > ???

I guess that tells a typical story of the deficiencies of the old TER.

I know this voluntary board from sourceforge and have the impression 
that it works. At least it is used intensivley.

The project owner on sourceforge can publish support requests with a 
description orderd by some categories. That are published on the board.
Thats all.

Interested people answer by a mailform and send their username. The 
project owner takes them up into the project team by the username. That 
feature is already implemented in the old TER.


> Don't underestimate the fact, though, that quite a few people will still
> upload such extensions, just for their few minutes of fame... :)

That is probalby a second reason.

> 
> Prove me wrong,
> Karsten

Regards

Elmar


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