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1 Brainstorming on new Extensions Categories
- 1.1 Goals and logic behind this list:
2 Proposed list and array by Michael Scharkow, the actual coder doing the job:
3 What others are using:

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Brainstorming on new Extensions Categories

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Goals and logic behind this list:

Minimal number of categories with the less confusion possible.
The quantity of Ext in "Miscenaleous" should be very small.
If there's more than 10 extensions, it deserves a category.
We should not take the version aspect of TYPO3 as a category.

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Proposed list and array by Michael Scharkow, the actual coder doing the job:

As of September 19th.

$em_categories = array (

    '3rdparty' => ' Third party integration',
    'admin' => 'Administration and maintainance',
    'auth' => 'Authentication and user management',
    'beskin' => 'Backend Skins',
    'cal_events' => 'Calendar and event management',
    'commerce' => 'Shopping and commerce',
    'community' => 'Community and intranet',
    'core' => 'Core enhancements',
    'libs' => 'Libraries',
    'editors' => 'Editor components',
    'forms' => 'Forms and generic user input',
    'multimedia' => 'Galleries and multimedia support',
    'news' => 'News and blogs',
    'discuss' => 'Forums, guestbooks and comments',
    'impexp' => 'Import/Export and syndication',
    'mail' => 'Mail and newsletters',
    'menus' => 'Menus and sitemaps',
    'polls' => 'Polls and surveys',
    'rendering' => 'Content rendering and filters',
    'stats' => 'Statistics and reporting',
    'templates' => 'Templates and templating',
    'misc' => 'Miscellaneous stuff',

);

plus the old ones!

3rd party integration Single sign-on, SugarCRM, SAP, DBAL, phpadsnew, ltg_phpadsnew, cobwebphpadsnew

Authentication and user management LDAP, Fe users add-ons

BE Skin t3skin

Calendar/News/Events tt_news, calendar base, event managers

Commerce tt_shop

Community cwt

Content add-on PDF generators

Core enhancement TCA modifications

Dev and libraries captcha

Documentation MTB, FTB

Editors htmlarea, TinyRCE

Education Anything that could be used by educational customers

File management???

Forms Quiz

Gallery and multimedia

Import/export RSS related + others

Internationalization / Languages pack

Link management RealURL (category IMO also fits for tt_links, lz_links, julle_external_links, ab_linklist, n_linklist, jubar_weblinks, so_surfing and linklist - thus the category could be confusing)

Mail

Menu ??? Flash generated menus

Mini-apps (better wording) -- Widgets(?) Help desk, Real estate, Recipes, etc..

Misc.

Newsletter

Search

Site maps

Statistics and reporting

Templates and templating

Workflow

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What others are using:

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Joomla

http://extensions.joomla.org/component/option,com_mtree/Itemid,35/

http://extensions.joomla.org/content/view/15/63/1/7/

They use Categories and Types. Types are like our categories right now and are technically oriented classification. Extensions in Joomla can have multiple types. Categories have subcategories.

TYPES

Component
Module
Plugin
Language

EXTENSIONS CATEGORIES

Admin Tools Admin Interface, Backup, Data Conversion, Database Management, File Management, Reporting, Search Engine Friendly URLs, Server, Statistics...

Banner Ads & Affiliates Advertising Banners, Classified Ads

Calendars Events, Reservations

Communication Chat, Comments, Forum, Guest Book, Newsletter, Polls

Content & News Blog, Clocks, Content Management, eCards, Images, Maps, News, Quiz, Ratings & Reviews...

Core Enhancements Accessibility, Categories/Sections, Credits, Group Access, Menu Systems, Multiple Sites, Security, User Management

Documentation Bibliography, Downloads, FAQ, Glossary & Dictionary, Wiki

e-Commerce Amazon, Auction, Data Interchange (EDI), Donations, Payment Systems, Shopping Cart

Forms

Gallery & Multimedia Gallery, Podcasting, Streaming Media

Intranet & Groupware Contacts, CRM, LDAP

Languages Multi-lingual Content, Translations for Joomla

Miscellaneous Books, Development Tools, Help Desk, Real Estate, Recipes, Sports & Games

Search & Indexing Directory, Google, Search, Site Map

Tools

WYSIWYG Editors

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Drupal

http://drupal.org/project/Modules/category

   * 3rd party integration (17)
   * Administration (30)
   * Categories (7)
   * Commerce / advertising (8)
   * Community (13)
   * Content (25)
   * Content display (28)
   * Developer (9)
   * Evaluation/rating (11)
   * Event (7)
   * File management (1)
   * Filters/editors (19)
   * Import/export (2)
   * Location (3)
   * Mail (12)
   * Media (7)
   * Paging (1)
   * Security (6)
   * Syndication (6)
   * Taxonomy (12)
   * Term (2)
   * Theme related (4)
   * User access/authentication (10)
   * Utility (23)

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