ECT/Homepage

This page belongs to the Extension coordination team (category ECT)

This page belongs to the Homepage on typo3.org for ECT project (category Project)

Next step for this wiki-page: check what structure the other teams have --Daniel Brüßler 14:59, 25 January 2007 (CET)

What we want to achieve with the team-homepage

• Help developers to get in contact with active ECT-projects (MVC, Forms, Party Framework, ...)
• Central overview what projects are planned/stopped/active/waiting
• Links to all active ECT-Projects
• Show developers how they optimize their code for Typo3
• Synergy effects by coordination of (extension) teams
• Show the differences and advantages of pi_base and lib/div
• link to the todo-list in the wiki
• ...

THE CONTENT

internal info:

• a light first version what can be there very FAST (FAQ and little Projects-List enough?)
• the full version with some links to the wiki-pages as step 2 what can take time
• here it will be: https://typo3.org/teams/

Extension Coordination Team - this will be the startpage

internal info:

• carries the FAQ !!!
  • the advantage is that people can see the questions what they have in their head when they visit the teams-page

(DRAFT) Welcome to the pages of the TYPO3 Extension Coordination Team! Here you can check the Frequently Asked Questions, or go directly to the ProjectsTable and the Goals of each project. For project-details and contact-persons just see the ProjectsTable.

(DRAFT) Question	Answer	maybe: illustration
What is ECT and what do you mean with "Extension Coordination"?	ECT is the shortname, the focus is to help all frontend-extension-developers: Good quality, good standards, nice-to-use base-features like form-handling and translation-handling, bringing ideas together	--
When did you start?	18:34, 6 December 2005 by Elmar Hinz (we can say it so detailed, because the team was founded in the TYPO3-Wiki)	--
Who can I contact?	See the Projects-table - for every project we have an other coordinator. The leader of the whole ECT is Elmar Hinz	maybe: photo or a funny illustration
How can I help with XX in project YY ?	See the Projects-table and look who's the coordinator for it. First read the wiki-page of the project, because there are all the detail, then introduce yourself in the mailinglist + send an email as copy to the coordinator.	--
Why do you focus just on Frontend-Extensions?	We can say FE extensions is our starting point. Many extensions are for the FE. BE extensions can be supported, as soon as somebody is actively organizing that field.	--
Do you care about AJAX, MVC, Oracle-DB?	It depends. We coordinate it, when several solutions exist for a problem - e.g. we checked out what ajax-frameworks are best with TYPO3 and care for updates.	--
Question?	Answer?	--
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ProjectsTable + Goals

internal info:

• status-info-table like Projects with encryped email-mailto's (great, that this is standard on typo3.org)
• Working groups, contains links to docs and contact, here 1 explaining paragraph for every project
• The link to the wiki must use javascript or better a form, so that wiki-spam-engines cannot find the links.
• when we put the members in the list it gets longer, but we give a good motivation for people who like to help!!

Next step:

• put the missing Detail-links in (just on ECT-page to prevent broken links)
• names of coordinator/s and members (from page ECT)
• relation (see relations-part of each projects-page)

(DRAFT) The Project	Activity	Wiki-Link	Coordinator/s and members	Relation
MVC Framework for Extensions	Most Active	Details	coordinators and members	relation
Calendar Base	Most Active	Details	coordinators and members	relation
Extension Comparison	Most Active	Details	coordinators and members	relation
Party Information Framework	Active	Details	coordinators and members	relation
Forms Library for FE Extensions	Active	Details	coordinators and members	relation
Extension Rating System and Reviews	Active	Details	coordinators and members	relation
Modern Extension Coding Guidelines	Active	Details	coordinators and members	relation
Xajax	Active	Details	coordinators and members	relation
ECT/Homepage	Active	Details	coordinators and members	relation
Content Rendering Schemes	Slumbering	wiki-Link	coordinators and members	relation
Library of TypoScript Snippets	Slumbering	wiki-Link	coordinators and members	relation
TYPO3 to go: Quickstart Packages	Slumbering	wiki-Link	coordinators and members	relation
TYPO3 Zengarden	Project Proposals	wiki-Link	coordinators and members	relation
Global Categories	Project Proposals	wiki-Link	coordinators and members	relation
Enhanced Rights Management	Project Proposals	wiki-Link	coordinators and members	relation
Mail Framework	Project Proposals	wiki-Link	coordinators and members	relation
FE User Registration	Project Proposals	wiki-Link	coordinators and members	relation
Better Error Messages by Exception-handling	Project Proposals	wiki-Link	coordinators and members	relation
Quicker Frontend	Corner of Inventions	wiki-Link	coordinators and members	relation
TS Editor with Highlighting and Code Completion for the BE	Corner of Inventions	wiki-Link	coordinators and members	relation
Dynamic Flexforms	Corner of Inventions	wiki-Link	coordinators and members	relation
Folder Specific Forms	Corner of Inventions	wiki-Link	coordinators and members	relation
name	activity	wiki-Link	coordinators and members	relation
name	activity	wiki-Link	coordinators and members	relation
name	activity	wiki-Link	coordinators and members	relation

wishlist: more fields for extended version: Activity, The Goal

to prevent wiki-spam we can use something like

<form name="link"><input name="ECT-ProjectName" type="hidden"><input type="submit" value="Project Name" onClick="forward(this)"></form>

pro: wiki-spam-engines cannot find the links (very important!)
contra: cannot be managed by a text-CType (OK for Patrick??)

Mailing List

internal info:

• name, link, purpose of the mailinglist, info what name the test-list has

News

internal info:

• via RSS, composing of new articles via ECT/Homepage/News

(DRAFT) The Extension Coordination Team was born in the wiki - now we run a team-page on typo3.org and keep it update. Our leader is Elmar Hinz, our aim is to build a good base for extension-developers.

We have a FAQ and a table what projects are running currently. With two klicks you're there. (DanielBrüßler and Steffen Kamper)

Active Members

internal info:

• good idea for motivation
• needs a date - so it's possible to know when somebody moves out of the list

(DRAFT) People that have taken up responsibility and made mayor contributions during the last 6 months.

Current Project Members

Steffen Kamper	content on typo3.org Team-page	contact: info/nospam/sk-typo3.de
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	contact: info-nospam-danielbruessler.de
Patrick Gaumond	cares for the typo3.org - team areas	contact: gaumond, Patrick.Gaumond+nospam+dap.ulaval.ca