[TYPO3-dev] RFC: Change roadmap for 4.5 and 5.0

[Ries van Twisk]

Dmitry Dulepov wrote:

>Hi!
>
>Michael Scharkow wrote:
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>>So again: Continue the 4.x line with bug fixes only, and start TYPO3 5.0
>>now, with some snapshots on the way, like the ZOPE people did with X3.
>>    
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>It will be hard to upgrade personally for me but I will manage it... +1
>if we care about performance while writing new code.
>
>Dmitry.
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>
For me it will also be a pain in the a** to do a upgrade to a 5.0 cauze 
I have so many pesonal extensions.
This means it will surely not benefit Typo3 in the short run for a lot 
of people want to upgrade,
however I do think it will benefit Typo3 in the long run.

Typo3 5.0 will take at least 2 years to develop and I would suggest 
start over from scratch setting up the new
fundamet for Typo3 core using PHP version 5. (I hope 6 will not be out 
by then :) ). All sorts of items can be re-thought over
from DBAL to Typoscript.

We must at least support Typo3 version 4.x for the 4 years to give 
people. While the guru's can start working on a Typo3 version 5.
Maby to even speedup development we need to start thinking of doing a 
fund-raising for mayor core devs.
With such a large userbase and big company's using it I am sure we can 
start doing some serious marketing and start a fundrasing?

I am all for a complete refactored Typo3 Version 5 and which we can at 
least import a 4.x branche.

cheers,
Ries



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