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

[Michael Stucki]

Hi Steffen,

>> Did you ever had a look how the rest of the universe handles this?
> 
> thanks for that examples. For me it shows that performance boost is 
> worth for updates without having change of behaviour.
> I don't know why so many fear that they loose a "stable" version. Look 
> at the bugfixes - the release wasn't stable, as the fixes shows. And who 
> ever fears shouldn't update.

I'm surprised to read this. Are you serious about it?

> And - performance boost is a good selling argument for the clients. The 
> normal case is that you sell the client the update. Best reason: 
> security enhancements. Security is important for each client. Then, 
> performance is very important too, it gives a feeling of a professional 
> product. But this is only marketingwise.

I don't know anyone who sells updates between patchlevel versions. I 
consider this is part of the product guarantee you have to cope with - 
so do we.

> And - all is a continuing process - new bugs will be found, fixed and 
> committed for the next release, where i come back to the wanted 
> situation of having more releases at all in the same time.

Me too! :-)

- michael
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