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This is a list of ideas that float around in the community. If you think one of them is a good idea or gives you an inspiration for another idea, please come up with a more detailed description for it using the idea template, then use the proposal form to submit your idea.
Core Development
- Improve the backend user interface using AJAX
- WebDav support
- XMLRPC API
- REST API
- Community driven Help System
- Object Oriented PHP5 Rewrite of modules of choice
- Performance improvements, primarily measured by memory footprint and response time
- Core event system API
- Improve workflows
- Improve the versioning and workspace system, make it easier to understand and use
- Improve or rewrite indexed_search, TYPO3's default search engine
- Create a way to handle "private" files - storing files outside of the webroot of a webserver
- Improve the TypoScript Object Browser by making use of AJAX
- Reimplement the Multimedia Content Element to make it fit today's needs for multimedia content
- Restructure the Extension Manager, make it easier to use
- Refactor the GIFbuilder
- Create a way to have a difference view even when not having the "diff" tool at hand (like on Windows)
- Rewrite the JavaScript in the backend using prototype
- Improve the page module
- Improve the backend skinning API
- Create an extendable backend live search engine
DAM (Digital Asset Management Extension)
- Document Management Functionality for the DAM
- Versioning of files for DAM
- An image editor for DAM
- Implement the "record collections" feature for DAM, see bugs.typo3.org/view.php
- Create an advanced image sub-content element to make use of the meta data provided by DAM
TIMTAB - TYPO3 Is More Than A Blog
- Restructure TIMTAB (Weblog Extension) using PHP5 and improve its functionality, f.e. add a backend module to manage posts, comments, trackbacks and other stuff
- Create a podcast extension based on DAM and TIMTAB
- Create an extension to host images on flickr and easily use them through the Rich Text Editor
NNTP reader - The Extension behind support.typo3.org
- Improve the NNTP reader used on support.typo3.org, implement the writer part
- Create a knowledgebase extension for support.typo3.org that integrates with NNTP reader
Other Extensions
- Rewrite the Extension Kickstarter using PHP5 and make it more flexible
- Create a light-weight but extendable FE user registration extension
- Create a statistics extension
- Improve gabriel (a cron dispatcher extension) with monitoring and/or poor man's cron (cron without cron)
- Create a brainstorm system like on brainstorm.ubuntu.com
Other stuff
- 5.0 Projects
- Create a theme for bugtracker and wiki so that they look like typo3.org (low prio)
- Implement a way to create standardized themes for the frontend
- Implement a theme repository
