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The ECT is newly born and it is not very easy to change the community away from the "do it yourself" mentality to a "cooperation" mentality! See the ECT/Extensions.
Peter Kindström in t.dev
ECT/TODO
The current merged list that can be copy-pasted into the newsgroup easily
News
20. July 2006: The Trac Webbrowser for SVN has been setup by Jan-Hendrik
18. July 2006: The calendar project "Calendar Base" joins ECT as the official calendar project of ECT
16. July 2006: Jan-Hendrik Heuing takes up responsibility as member of the board
13. July 2006: The Xajax extension is published as stable
28. June 2006: Christoph Koehler takes up the coordinator's role of the FE Forms Library Team
19. June 2006: ECT becomes an official node ot the R&D team
26. March 2006: First Version of MVC is published to TER: lib, div, articles
6. March 2006: Article in the T3N-Magazine (German)
See the T3N-Magazine 1.06 and the ECT-Article (PDF).
1. Jan 2006: List of nominations:
for the Extension of the Year contest
27. Dec 2005: Extension of the Year Contest:
As a first measure of QA we start the contest Extension of the Year.
19. Dec 2005: Our newsgroup and mailinglist is there. See below for addresses. Thanks to Michael Stucki. Subscribe and coordinate now!
14. Dec 2005: In NG typo3.dev Kasper Skårhøj announces to join the ECT and gives personal approval for our chosen Name Extension Coordination Team. Welcome Kasper in ECT. Kasper proposes to bring first results of ECT already into TYPO 4.5, which is planned for spring 2006 under the theme "Improve usabilty and ease-of-use". No time to lose now. Read the full posting here.
14. Dec 2005: On the discussion page Kasper publishes his definiton of "Portal Standards".
Lists and Repositories
- Mailinglist: http://lists.netfielders.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/typo3-team-extension-coordination
- Newsgroup: typo3.teams.extension-coordination
- IRC: irc://irc.freenode.net/#typo3-ect (official conference slot: friday 13:00 - 14:00 GMT)
- Subversion: http://svn.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.cgi/typo3xdev/
- Subversion/Trac: http://svn.t3.digitaldistrict.de/cgi-bin/trac.cgi/browser
- Subversion/Trac: http://svn.webempoweredchurch.org:3000/calendar/
- TER2: http://typo3.org/extensions/
Board
The board is responsible to coordinate the different teams and projects.
- Leader: Elmar Hinz
- Board: Jan-Hendrik Heuing
- Board: void
The maximum is 5 board members including the leader. As an upcoming team we start with 3.
Coordinated Projects
See the list of ECT/Extensions.
Most Active Projects
MVC Framework for Extensions
- Elmar Hinz (tx_lib, tx_div)
- Michael Scharkow (controller, consulting)
- interested party: Nick Weisser, Achim Eichhorn, Joerg Schoppet, Jan-Hendrik Heuing, Michael Sharkow, Ernesty Baschny, Jeff Segars, Daniel Brüßler
The chance:
- MVC Framework/Extending Extensions
- Migrationpath to V5 - The Definitive Guide to TYPO3 - for Developers
Comparison with other Frameworks:
- MVC Framework/Features of other Frameworks - by Nick Weisser
Subprojects/ components:
- MVC Framework/ErrorObject - Elmar Hinz and Daniel Brüßler
Calendar Base
- Jeff Segars (coordinator)
- Mario Matzulla (project leader)
- Steffen Kamper (co-developer)
- Ingo Renner (testing, bugreports)
- Paul Fetch (templating)
- interested party: Stefan Kreisberg, Stig Nørgaard Færch, Carlos Chiari, Alexander Langer, Herbert Roider, Robert Markula, Troels Kjaer Rasmussen,
- calendar extensions: Kasper (tt_calender), Alexander Langer (calendar), Elmar Hinz (vcd_calendar), Juraj Benadik & Mads-Peter Brunn Jensen (advCalendar), Volker Biberger (sk_calendar), and a lot more ...
Extension Comparison
- Wolfgang Schröder (coordinator, concept, author)
- Gina Steiner (concept, author)
- Thomas Hempel (concept, author)
- Antje Möller (concept, author)
- Stefan Steinbeck (author)
- Andreas Lenz (peer to t3n)
- Jan Christe (peer to t3n)
- Patrick Rodacker (peer to Extension Rating System and Reviews)
Active Projects
Party Information Framework
- David Brühlmeier (coordinator)
- Elmar Hinz (member)
- Peter Kindström (member)
- Norman Seibert (member)
- David Slayback (member)
- Oliver Hader (member)
- Robert Lemke (member)
Forms Library for FE Extensions
- (coordinator needed)
- Jan-Hendrik Heuing (repository)
- Jeff Segars (validation)
- Mario Chiari (validation)
- David Lanier (Documentation)
- interested party: Edwin de Jong, Jochen Rieger,Jérôme Schneider, Daniel Pötzinger, Michael Sharkow, Sebastian Kurfürst, Nick Weisser (Documentation), Jo Hasenau (TypoScript and forms accessibility), Ernesto Bachny (forms accessibility), Elmar Hinz (interaction with MVC)
Extension Rating System and Reviews
- Patrick Rodacker (coordinator)
Modern Extension Coding Guidelines
- Elmar Hinz (first drafts)
Xajax
- for Ajax-support on the server
- Elmar Hinz (xaJax Library)
- Joerg Schoppet (xaJax Tutor)
ECT/Homepage
- Steffen Kamper (content on typo3.org Team-page)
- Daniel Brüßler (todo: create wiki-page, template as helper for sync between wiki-content and typo3.org-content, some content on typo3.org Team-page)
Cache
- Steffen Kamper
- ideas from Ingo Renner, Ries van Twisk, Ernesto Baschny, Daniel Brüßler
Slumbering Projects
Content Rendering Schemes
(In cooperation with CRG:Content Rendering Group)
- WANTED (coordinator)
Library of TypoScript Snippets
- WANTED (coordinator)
TYPO3 to go: Quickstart Packages
- WANTED (coordinator)
- interested party: Susanne Moog (writing tutorials, design, css), Patrick Rodacker (package for universities and schools), Manfred Rutschmann (design, css, documentation), Arnd Messer, Rainer Sudhölter, Pierre Rouwens, Elmar Hinz
Project Proposals
Add new project proposals here.
Object Persistence Framework
Database access layer with support for relationships and a simple api - load,save,delete,search
TYPO3 Zengarden
- WANTED (coordinator)
Global Categories
- interested party: Rene Fritz, Michael Stucki, David Toshack, Ingo Renner, Ernesto Baschny, Stefano Cercere, Franz Koch, Mads Brunn
Related:
- Contagged - auto-parsing, tagging and replacing of terms in a text. For auto-linking, Synonyms.
Enhanced Rights Management
- Roles
- ACL
Mail Framework
- targets
- incorporate all mailing list/newsletter related extensions
- ease of setup
- ease of use
- interested party: David Toshack
FE User Registration
- refactoring of sr_feuserregister or coding a new one
- targets
- ease of setup
- better DB Model
Get it contact with User:FranzHolzinger if you want to contribute here.
How do I propose or start a new project?
Relations:
- Party Information Framework - Should FE User Registration be an extension to the Party Information Framework? Would it be a more lean solution?
- Users Addresses
Better Error Messages by Exception-handling
Isn't there a better way to produce more "uncryped" messages?
Three Information Blocks:
- Easy/Basic Error Description (Everybody could understand this.)
- How has this Error happend ... last Action ... (Info for the Dev.)
- Typo3 Ver. and Ext. Ver, Apache Ver, etc.
- The "cryped" Error (The usual one)
- Call to Action. What can i do now. (Dev. eMail addy, Dev. Forum Mailinglist, etc.)
Example: When the DB class gets wrong SQL it just can write a simple error-message what doesn't tell anything to a newbee.
(from Jens Hoffmann in HCI-newsgroup)
If the DB-class throws an error (but with PHP4 it's not so easy like PHP5) the calling extension can write a good error-message. (Daniel Brüßler)
Well it would be nice, to have a doc on what to do, if error XYZ occurs.. In fact only showing the error doesn't help. It would be better to know the facts that lead to the error, and of course the actions you can do, to get rid of it. (from Andreas Balzer in HCI-newsgroup)
Standardization
All extensions should behave the same way as much as possible. This would make it easier for our customers to use them. Enter your proposals here and make annotations to the proposals of others. If nobody opposes within some months your proposals will be announced as a recommended TYPO3 extension development standard. And then other extension developers will be encouraged to program complying these guidelines.
--Franz Holzinger 08:55, 17 May 2007 (CEST)
Investigation of Other Products
Code that is GPL or LGPL could be implemented into TYPO3 like we did with xajax. Some Projects could be candidates for a cooperation. Otheres are interesting as competitors to learn from them.
Propel
- Description: The propel project checks out what gains and what conflict result if we use propel for database access in extensions. Propel is a full-service object persistence and query toolkit for PHP. This type of tool is also called an Object Relational Mapping (ORM). Propel is based on the Apache Torque project and written for PHP5.
- Coordinator: Jan-Hendirk
Drupal
- Description: The drupal project investigates the special features of drupal, that is said to have strengthes in the community field, so called "Social Software". What can we learn from it? Could a cooperation be interesting? Are there any TYPO3/Drupal coinstallationes?
- Coordinator:
Corner of Inventions
Here we present extensions that experiment with new ideas. We think this ideas have good chances to make the way into the core as soon as the concept has proven to be successfull. They will be part of the ECT status reports to the R&D team.
Quicker Frontend
- Inventor: Bernhard Kraft
- Source: http://typo3.org/extensions/repository/search/kb_quickfe/0.1.0/
- Idea: Smart caching in the form of files directly from index.php
- Gain: More requests per second with a factor of 50.
TS Editor with Highlighting and Code Completion for the BE
- Inventor: Bernhard Kraft
- Source: http://think-open.org/kraftb/index/T3X_kb_tsedit_htmlarea-0_0_0.t3x
- Idea: Usage of htmlarea to bring modern features of editors to TS editing
- Gain: Syntax highlighting, structure highlighting, code completition
- Needs extension coordination: Adding of a syntax verification array within extensions for extension TS
Dynamic Flexforms
- Inventor: Thomas Hempel
- Source: Dynamic Flexforms (dynaflex) (contact: matrikz)
- Idea: Changing the TCA on the fly with special support of XML definitions.
- Gain: Dynamic BE Forms
Folder Specific Forms
- Inventor: Elmar Hinz
- Source: Elmars basical library (elba) (contact: elmar.hinz)
- Idea: Marker in PageTS to select a special schema of a BE form
- Gain: Use the same table specifically for different applications (i.e. tt_address)
Casting
Please register here, to give a few hints, in what fields you are interested. Project leaders will invite you to join their project. In the moment you start to contribute, you become an active member of ECT.
- Elmar Hinz, elmar(DOT)hinz(at)team(MINUS)red(DOT)net: portal quickstart package
- Patrick Rodacker, patrick(DOT)rodacker(at)the (MINUS)reflection(DOT)de: concepts, extension rating system, preconfigured installation packages
- David Brühlmeier, typo3(at)bruehlmeier(DOT)com: Partner Framework, design, minor development, documentation
- Norman Seibert, seibert(at)entios(DOT)de: Partner Framework + Authentication, concepts, design, development, documentation
- Manfred Rutschmann, manfred(DOT)rutschmann(at)cobra(MINUS)tut(DOT)de: preconfigured installation packets, documentation
- Arnd Messer, a(DOT)messer(at)freiraum(MINUS)medien(DOT)de: preconfigured installation packages, design, css, documentation
- Rainer Sudhölter r(DOT)sudhoelter(at)web(DOT).de: documentation, preconfigured installation packets, MS Windows specific topics
- Pierre Rouwens pierre_rouwens(at)dmr(dot)ca:documentation portal quickstart, extension rating system
- Jeff Segars, jeff(at)webempoweredchurch(DOT)org: preconfiguration installation packages, global categorization partner framework
- Robert Lemke, robert (at) typo3(dot)org: Coordinate and help integration of new functions into the TER and TYPO3 Association peer
- Mark Stephenson, Mark(at)WebempoweredChurch(dot)com: extension development process, guidelines and standards.
- Stefano Cecere, stefano2006(at)krur(dot)com: quality assurance and usability.
- Kai Laborenz. laborenz(at)sunbeam(minus)berlin(dot)de, markup & accessibility
- Jan-Hendrik Heuing, jh(at)digitaldistrict(dot)de, interoperability of extensions, including central / common layout mechanisms.
- David Slayback, dave(at)webempoweredchurch(dot)org: Partner Framework, Portal standards, global categorization.
- Ries van Twisk, ries(at)vantwisk.nl
- Jo "JoH" Hasenau, info(at)cybercraft.de
- Oliver Klee, typo3-coding(at)oliverklee(dot)de: providing compliant extensions
- Achim Eichhorn, a(dot)eichhorn(at)screenwerks(dot)net: mvc, (mda), test driven development
- Edwin de Jong, G(dot)E(dot)deJong(at)student(dot)utwente(dot)nl: new Form Framework
- Jochen Rieger, j(dot)rieger(at)connecta(dot)ag: new Form Framework
- Mario Chiari, chiari(dot)hm(at)flashnet(dot)it: new Form Framework
- Davide Principi, d(dot)principi(AT)provincia(dot)ps(dot)it: Grouped List Layout
- Jérôme Schneider, typo3dev(at)ameos(dot)com: new Form Framework
- Jan Wischnat, jan(at)wischnat(dot)de - Accessibility Questions
- Daniel Pötzinger, info(at)poetz-media.de - Rights Management; FE Forms lib
- Christoph Koehler, christoph(dot)koehler(at)gmail(dot)com - FE Forms Framework
- Joerg Schoppet, joerg(at)schoppet(dot)de - MVC
- David Toshack, david(at)vaultin(dot)com Partner Framework + Authentication through roles, merging similar/conflicting extension development through guidance and coordination.
- Susanne Moog, mail(at)susi-moog(dot)de - preconfigured installation packages, writing tutorials, design, css
- Nick Weisser, nick(at)openstream(dot)ch - "TYPO3 on Rails" (see e.g. Ruby on Rails, CakePHP, etc.), MVC, XForms, FE Forms Library
- Daniel Brüßler, info-nospam-danielbruessler.de - Support for Documentation
- Yannick Pavard, yannick.pavard(at)infoglobe.(dot)ca : Quality Assurance, usability, css and evaluation/comparative
- Philip Almeida, philip.almeida(at)gmail.(dot)com : MVC,AJAX
- Edy Haryono, edy.haryono(at)gmail.(dot)com : Performance, Usability, User Centered Design
Definition of terms
- team: A team is a subnode to another team or commitee. It is defined by the authority that is assigned to it by the supernode. Teams are the structures that carry the longterm responsibility and coordination.
- project: A project is is related to one or more teams. Each team can be related to several projects. Projects are the structures where the productional work happens. A project typically has a temporary nature.
- simple project: A project of one or 2 persons is a simple project without a defined project group.
- project group: A project with at least 3 contributers is a project group. Each superordinate team is connected to the project by one project coordinator. Internally the group chooses a form of organization that fits best to the nature of the project. A project leader can be nominated.
- leader: The leader of a team reports to the supernode and is itself a member of the supernode. He can setup a board.
- coordinator: Coordinators of project groups report to their teams and are members of the team. Every praticipating team nominates only one coordinator even if sending several members.
- board: The board of a team is responsible for the coordiantion of subteams and projects. It nominates the leaders and coordinators.
- members: People that have taken up an active role within ECT or one of the projects.
- candidates: Registered people looking for an active role.
- interested party: People who are connected to a project in some or other way. Potential candidates to become active members.
glosssary of ECT
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