[TYPO3-dev] Are performance improvements part of maintaince releases?

[Ingo Renner]

Marcus Krause wrote:

Hi all,

I think you provided some good arguments. However, I'd also to cite 
wikipedia:

"A software bug is the common term used to describe an error, flaw, 
mistake, failure, or fault in a computer program that prevents it from 
behaving as intended (e.g., producing an incorrect or unexpected result)."
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_bug]

This is also the way I see it and why I do not consider performance 
tuning as bugfixing and thus I would not like to see that in 
maintainance releases.

> A performance "bugfix" might be a single line one but also a huge bunch
> of loc. To get a common rule I would treat every performance "bugfix"
> the same and suggest that they are only to be applied to minor releases
> and above.
>
> The system works for every user. A performance "bugfix" will only make
> it run faster. That's good but it does not fix an error, it just
> improves usability. But we do risk that something is seriously broken
> afterwards.

exactly.


all the best
Ingo

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Ingo Renner
TYPO3 Core Developer, Release Manager TYPO3 4.2