[TYPO3-dev] Cleaning up specific cached pages

[Elmar Hinz]

>> By accepting files, not only diffs, and making the workflow faster, much
>> more people will file in patches instead.
> 
> Hm. And developers will have to take several copies of TCEmain or
> TCEforms and find differencies themselves. No, thanks! I do not want
> such job. :)
> 

It's the complexity of the TCEmain and TCEforms. With lib/div I am faster to
add a new idea without a patch, if people contribute some lines of code. I
need to adapt the code anyway.

>> I think there should be a timely limit for the workflow. There should be
>> no bug report older than 3 monthes. Within this time the suggestion has
>> to be rejected either or implemented. Also dead bodies should be replaced
>> in the core team, to keep it alive at all. Having big waxworks doesn't
>> make a strong team.
> 
> I doubt we can reject features and bug reports like this. Do not forget

Having a growin stack of patches, that are monthes old, isn't really
motivating. If a contribution is that uniteresting that nobody cares to
implement it, it should be dropped for reasons of honesty. Also such a
deadline is a factor of motivation. 

Dropped suggestions can be filed in again. Then it is a fresh start and can
help, to bring it into focus.

> - core developers are not paid to work on core. We all have our projects
> and we do core coding in our free time.

They are not paid in money, but they are paid with publicity. That's a
payment, too. It indirectly leads to financial benefit.  So people can
expect a minimum of commitment. In fact it hasn't to be that much of a
Dmitry. ;-)

 
> Next, some core people have more responsibilities than you can see in
> core list. Some participate in 5.0, some do security, I work with
> translation server at the moment. I do not think we should remove anyone
> from core team unless no one can remember any activity from a person for
> at least a year. But new people are added from time to time to core team.

After this definition one contribution per year is enough. It leads to an
inflation of team members rather than to motivation. The overall results
may even decrease.

Regards

Elmar