Feature #10533
Keep show a last maintained date and force authors to report back after half a year.
| Status: | Needs Feedback | Start date: | 2010-10-29 | |
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| Priority: | Could have | Due date: | ||
| Assignee: | - | % Done: | 0% |
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| Category: | [FOR] TER | |||
| Target version: | - | |||
| Votes: | 0 |
Description
relates to 6855, low priority
There are many "unmaintained" extensions in TER. The TER server should keep the date of the last upload.
After half a year, an email should be send to the author of the extension. The email shall contain a link which resets the date.
This way authors do not need to upload an upgrade for sole reason of showing that they still maintain an extension.
On the other hand, an extension should be marked as "not maintained" some time after the email was send (3 months). TER should change the status and the version number on its own then.
This would reduce the number of old, unmaintained extensions in TER.
Related issues
| related to The typo3.org project - Feature #6855: [FEATURE] There's no way to quit maintaining an extension... | New | 2010-03-15 |
History
Updated by Philipp Gampe over 2 years ago
This relates to the discussion on typo3.german with the title: "kb_packman - DEPRECATED! Do not use !!?!?"
A nice illustration of the idea is the touch command known from Unix systems, which marks a file as used (maintained in this case) without actually changing it.
Updated by Christian Wolff over 2 years ago
The TER should send a second Notification Mail shortly (1 Week) before the Status of the Extension is marked as ""not maintained". Just in case the Author missed the first Notification.
After the Status Change the Author Should get One Last message that Just informs him that the Status has changed to "not maintained". and Provide information on how to reaktivate that extension or handover development to a new maintainer.
Updated by Thomas Loeffler 5 months ago
- Project changed from TER Frontend Index to The typo3.org project
Updated by Thomas Loeffler 5 months ago
- Category set to [FOR] TER
Updated by Thomas Loeffler 5 months ago
- Status changed from New to Needs Feedback
The last maintained datetime is now available in "Last upload".
So, the question is what to do with the email after half a year.
I would suggest an email on every new TYPO3 major release that all extension owners will be reminded to check their extensions if they are compatible with the new version.