[TYPO3-typo3org] The absent father comes home

[Alex Heizer]

JoH asenau wrote:
>> it would be perfect to let it be under support.typo3.org
>>     
I agree.

> I don't think a new extension will be necessary for the snippet repository,
> since there is nothing that couldn't be done with pages and default content
> elements or maybe an extension that offers categorisation like i.e. tt_news.
>
> The team of authors of the TYPO3 cookbook (Christian Trabold, Peter
> Niederlag and myself) already offered to work on this part for typo3.org,
> since we got the official agreement from O'Reilly to publish our snippets as
> long as the detailed discussion will be only available for those who buy the
> book.
>
> Of course we could include snippets from other sources and we wanted to
> include the possibility for registered fe_users to publish their snippets as
> well. A commenting or rating system for the snippets could be interesting
> and to motivate people to publish their snippets it could be nice to offer
> some incentives for the "snippet of the month/year".
>
> To get some usable results only two things are necessary, which haven't been
> made available yet:
> 1. BE access to that part of the page tree of typo3.org, that will contain
> the snippet archive and
> 2. The possibility to setup the appropriate extension(s) and the necessary
> TypoScript.
>
> If there would be association money available for a "snippet repository
> team" this would definitely speed up the process, but it's not a must have,
> since we offered to do it on a voluntarily base. But maybe this money could
> be used for the incentives. (i.e. tickets for the T3CON or T3BOARD, T3
> books, weekend trips or whatever)
>
> If there is anybody interested in helping us with this project, feel free to
> contact me.
> And it would be nice if someone of the "officials" could give us BE access
> to "enable us to share" ;-)
>
> Joey
>
>   
These are all already available under support.typo3.org (categorization, 
commenting, ratings, no extra cost). Plus, a visitor can search all the 
mailing lists plus snippets at once instead of doing a mailing list 
search on one site then going to another site to search snippets. Also, 
forum visitors can request that a particularly helpful post be turned 
into a snippet directly, and forum users can be set up as "experts" on 
specific areas of expertise (to help disseminate knowledge). The KB is 
also RSS enabled so people can subscribe to each category they're 
interested in. Contact me offlist and I can set you up as a KB 
administrator so we can start getting some new snippets in.

Cheers!
Alex