[TYPO3-dev] TER, typo3.org, everything went FUBAR!!! :))

[Jody Cleveland]

Thank you, Dimitri, for saying very well, exactly what I was thinking.
;) 

- jody

> If there is some very busy work going on on these parts, it is not
> being committed to CVS. I was looking for the scripts that convert SXW
> ext manual to web pages and PDF but those are either nowhere to be
> found in the CVS.
> 
> Either that or I am too old and missing something or looking in the
> wrong places.
> 
> Here is a big picture problem that I see - TYPO3 as a CMS is not
> powerful and versatile enough to serve as a platform for TYPO3
> community portal. This is a fact that is very hard and painful to
> admit. So, once the maillist archive becomes too heavy we just drop it
> altogether (all these forum-like thingies are for sissies anyway, real
> men use news reader!), and point people to netfielders where they are
> unsearcheable. I really wonder who had made a good and smart choice to
> actually use MediaWiki for wiki - either this was a very bold move or
> TIMTAW is so bad it wasn't even an option.
> 
> I somewhat like TER2 as an idea with decentralization and all but it
> should have been built the other way around - as a virtualization over
> the OLD TER1 first, not the other way around as per
> http://typo3.org/typo3temp/tx_rlmpofficelib_641540efc6.png .
> 
> What happens now is you reward the gung-ho admins running sites on CVS
> beta- versions at the expense of people who want to do something else
> with their lives besides constantly upgrading TYPO3.
> 
> If Microsoft did something like this with MSDN or Windows Update linux
> commies at Slashdot would be joyfully pissing in their pants. But an
> open source project can't do nothing wrong, it's all for the sake of
> the "future" and "progress".