Georg Ringer provides an update on his Community Budget for Q3/2025: In the third quarter of 2025, I had the opportunity to work on a new extension which improves the workflow for editors.
Great idea! Can’t wait to use it. 
Thank you very much for this nice extension.
What are the next steps to get this into the TYPO3 core? Will the BCC accompany the process? @ischmittis
Otherwise, I fear that this extension will lead a niche existence and will not receive any further updates.
The project itself is from the Ideas side finished, we (BCC) won’t take any more actions.
The funding was ment to create the functionality and afterwards to see, if the extension is used widely. Afterwards it’s up to the core team, if this should be part of the core or not. If there is a need to integrate this into the core I think @just2b is the one who will implement the changes.
I’m not sure if this is the right approach. Just from a one time advertising with blog post, social media and maybe a mention in the next newsletter you can’t expect that there will be huge download numbers.
In my opinion we need to follow up with the members and tell them that there has been a release of the extension and the members should test it and give feedback via a feedback form.
Otherwise I’ll fear that the extension will quickly be forgotten, and then the members’ money might be wasted.
Same goes e.g. for other former budgets like page_link_insights (1141 installs) and semantic_suggestion (1496 installs) from Cyril Wolfangel or the interactive tour by Macin Sagol (639 installs). All these extensions now need further polishment to get production ready.
Within the ideas budget we can only kickstart the development, we can’t fund the ongoing development, polishment and marketing for the extension.
My personal opinion on that: As for all other extensions we need the activity of the extension authors to promote the extension and to generate funds for the development an polishment. Only writing a report for the ideas process is simply not enough. OpenSource is personal engagement and needs personal engagement. If the result of one idea gets bigger it might be considered as new feature in core or be supported over the long time by teams.
So, if one of these extensions are valuable for you (or other readers of this post) - please share the word, get in contact with the author, improve the extension. Get buzz on it so it might get considered.
I will take the idea for the feedback form to the BCC, we might add this to our process.
I agree with you, Ingo. Maybe the BCC could follow up with past budget owners every once in a while to ask how things are going and what improvements have been made.
Another idea is for the BCC to write an annual news article summarizing past budgets and how things have evolved since then. This would help keep the community and the budget owners informed.
We from the BCC are already doing a report after every quarter Significant Results for Q2/2025 Community Budget Ideas
Yeah, I’ve seen that. But what I meant was rather something like “we had these budgets funded a year ago and that’s how they evolved”.
Very great idea, I think we can do that. I’ll add it to my to-do list.