[Typo3-dev] 3.8.0 release

[Michael Scharkow]

Kasper Skårhøj wrote:
> Hi List,
> 
> About TYPO3 3.8.0 release we should soon get it out.

That's good news.

> What has been holding me back now seems to be almost fixed;
> Indexed_search. There is still some work to be done, but I want to check
> up on the status of things outside of my realm:
> 
> - How is status on the wiki-glossary integration with CSH?
> - Are there any *serious* outstanding bugs that are about to be fixed?

There are some annoying ones, but the real serious issue is that there 
are still almost 250 Bugs pending. I know bugfixing is a dirty job,  but 
if you could announce a feature freeze for the things that were planned 
for 3.8, maybe some devs would find the time to incorporate some 
bugfixes and small requested features to the 3.8 release.

I am not sure if this makes sense during or before RC phase, but I'd 
really like a bugsquashing bonanza take place before 3.8 is released. 
bugs.typo3.org is down right now, but there are some notorious bugs I 
remember: filepaths not working, Opera support is an issue, some 
inconsistencies in labels, stuff like that.

> Last time someone wanted to have a longer RC-period or maybe two RC
> versions. I have no darlings regarding that issue so maybe the list will
> kindly inform us what scheme of Release Candidate cycles are preferred
> for proper testing?

I think the number of RCs just depends on how many bugs are found and 
fixed.  NetBSD 2.0 had lots of RCs because always in the last minute, 
some serious bugs were found.
If there's enough testers, I think 2 weeks of pure testing and bugfixing 
  are okay, and if there's still bugs, make RC2...

Greetings,
Michael