[Typo3-dev] The future of the TYPO3 platform

[Luc de Louw]

Kasper Skårhøj wrote:

> True. It turns out to be hard to recruit people into this since there
> are extremely high expectations to the quality of their contributions.
> We are doing our best extend the team - but not at the cost of our
> "unique" quality/stability!
> 
> 
>>- 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)
> 
> 
> Did you look at the project/teams page. What is wrong with this? There
> are plenty of ways for people to engage themselves.

If you mean http://typo3.org/1477.0.html I'd like to say that it is more 
or less just a list of teams with it members.

If I may do a suggestion? It would to be a benefit to have a developer 
subdomain, and for the bigger projects a own subdomain.

I do some translations for KDE and now some stuff about how it is organized.

I.e. there is http://developer.kde.org/ which addresses interessted people.

There is http://bugs.kde.org/ for quering and reportuing bugs

http://i18n.kde.org/ is for the translator teams.

Typo3 is not that huge as KDE is, but typo3 is complex, and there are a 
lot of documents, projects etc around the website.

For me (I'm not (yet) that kind of specialist, it is hard to find the 
right information that I need.

[..]

>>i18n
> 
> 
> Team members are working on this. Do you see any problems? And for
> translation of the system we have a kick-ass system!

Where can I read about it?

[..]

>>I have been using TYPO3 since v. 3.5.0-rc1. What will happen to the 
>>3.5.0 release anyway? Will there be bugfixes and/or backports for the 
>>3.5.x branch?
> 
> 
> Of course there will be no backports. 
> One of our (apparently) unique features is that (unless otherwise
> stated) you upgrade to the next version with full backwards
> compatibility and only some 4-5 buttons to press to synchronize things.
> And why wouldn't you? To avoid having the copyright notice of 3.5.0
> shown in the login screen?
> 
> Martin K. suggested to add branches / tags in CVS for future releases. I
> think that is a good idea though.

Yes indeed. Maintaining CVS branches is simple.

I'm against backports of new 3.6 features, but bugfixes (most important 
if there are some security related ones) is a must.

[..]

> 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'm actually pretty sure that if you really want to shape TYPO3s
> community to the better we are ready to allow you a shot at it.

See above...

> 
> 
>>Conclusion: Things just seem a little unstuctured. I believe Kasper 
>>should concentrate on what he does best: code :-)
> 
> 
> Thats what I do all the time.
> Oh no, not true. I do actually write a lot in manuals! Guess why? Seems
> to be the *least* interesting job to do for other volunteers! Hence I
> *have to*!

I wrote to HOWTOS for the TLDP. Why? because I'm a lazy guy and my weak 
memory. I'm sure with the right promotion this can (hopefully) be changed.

Thanks a lot

rgds

Luc