[Typo3-dev] The Right Crew

[Bernhard Kraft]

Kasper Skårhøj wrote:

> Yes, one of the groups of people I admire most in this community is Michael
> Stuckis bug-fixing-team. I don't know if they have another name, but THEY
> are working on implementing stuff from the bug-tracker, they have a
> four-eye review scheme running and it is working pretty well with
> communication to me. More of that! The striking point is that they are
> almost all students...

I think we have no "offical" name until now :) To be correct just one of 
us four (Sebastian Kurfürst) is still a student, Michael is employed as 
you know and also Valentin. I am self-employed (own company) from 1. of 
November.

>>So if you can't have the money, you better have way of encouraging
>>people to give back, the way they can afford.
> 
> 
> I'm not talking about encouragement. I'm talking about what happens "after
> encouragement" when the going gets tough. Some people seems to think its
> all sunshine and downstream but its not only. I'm asking for people still
> standing on the rock when its cold and boring. Those I will invest in.

But you will have to admit that one must feed himself and have to earn 
money. If you work in a company you always work for you boss and he 
earns money for you doing something. Now with my own company I think 
there will be more for me left and I can invest more of my time into T3 
work - at least if everything runs as expected :)

The companies I worked for until now didn't really have a interest to 
finance the work I was doing on implement Extensions and patches. 
Altough my last boss allowed me to answer Newsgroup postings when I had 
to wait for something other to finish he did not want me to create 
"proper" patches I could submit to the list instead of doing "quick 
hacks". Whenever I asked him to decide wheter I should make the proper 
patch which of course would have taken some hours more (proper testing, 
documentation, communication on the core list, reworking, testing again 
.....)

I will for sure invest a lot of time into the future of TYPO3. And I 
think I can do this at the best if my work can focus on improving the 
actual situation and not earning money 8h/5d a week.


greets,
Bernhard