[Typo3-dev] The future of the TYPO3 platform

[Martin T. Kutschker]

Kasper Skårhøj wrote:
> Hi Martin.
> 
>>That said, the community should come up with a better way to manage the 
>>project as a whole. Things that come to mind:
>>
>>- AFAIK there is no bugtracking system (like e.g. bugzilla)
> 
> Did you have a problem with a bug you couldn't find a person to submit
> to? "bugs at typo3.com"?

Yes. Using an online issue tracker enables me to see if the problem is a 
know problem, find spots where I feel like contributing, allows users to 
evaluate the state of Typo3 against certain conditoins for specific 
projects (eg custmer A needs feature B - is it fisex, will it be fixed, 
can I fix it for myself?).

 > Anyways, we actually do have a bug-tracker (Mantis)

Where did it go? It has been introduced on the list. I went there and 
sometime later it was gone.

>>- There should be a better management for the available manpower (people 
>>managing e.g. CVS, release maintainers, feature plans, plugin 
>>coordinators, website updates (maybe blog?), documentation, i18n)

Your input and help is welcome. Any new and updated docs are appreciated 
and if you like to help on 118m contact me.

>>release maintainers
> 
> I think Michael Stucki and Ingmar has done marvellous jobs. Just notice
> how certain fixes has been added to 3.5.0 by them on their own!

I also missed that one. If the current 3.5.0 packages are different from 
teh initial ones, than something is broken with the versioning schemes.

I'm happy to here that Michael and Ingmar are release mainatiners for 
3.5, but unless they make packes like 3.5.1 etc nobody will ever notice. 
In fact I believed that absolutely no work at all has been done on 3.5. 
I noticed a couple of bugs, but they all have been found an fixed for 
3.6. Still, I had wished they'd be fixed for 3.5.x, which may has happen 
already after what I read just now.

On a sidenote, I think it confusing that, the CVS snapshots have RCx in 
their name. On the Austrian list there is always the question *which* 
version of RC1 or RC2.

>>I am comparing this to say the linux kernel project, the KDE project or 
>>for example the gentoo project. I am quite happy on how the information 
>>level for users, geeks, and developers is shared at different levels. I 
>>realize the these projects are far more sophisticated but TYPO3 
>>definitely has the potential.
> 
> Since we don't have time to analyse all these projects or experience
> their communities first-hand, maybe you can give some actual suggestions
> to what can be done with TYPO3's community?

I can report on the style of the Apache group if anyone is interested.

Masi