Victor Gutierrez - 02 October 2007 04:02 PM
I didn’t quite understand what he meant with certified module…
Is it a new module?
or like the plugins/extensions, that you can add them to the database..?
Or a certification for companies (developers)?
A long, long time ago in a thread far-far away there was much heated discussion about 3rd party add-ons and their reliability. It was suggested that EllisLab offer some sort of certification process for 3rd party add-ons that are available for commercial use.
The certification would mean that the code has been reviewed by the EllisLab dev team and be deemed “up to par” and that the 3rd party is committed to the module and its support long-haul. It will receive a “certified” label of some sort to separate it from other 3rd party add-ons. It will also be available directly from the ExpressionEngine.com store. Support for the add-on will be provided from the 3rd party directly, not from EllisLab.
We have a trial run for just such a developer and his module that will hopefully be available this month. Depending on how the trial goes this process and opportunity will be made available to other interested 3rd parties willing to invest in getting their add-on certified. If you are such a developer, it would behoove you to start checking your code against the Developer Guidelines as the code must meet every single last one of those requirements without exception.
We’ll have more information available this month (he said hopefully) though the certification program for others will likely not start until next year.