[TYPO3-dev] not amused...

[Sebastian KurfŸürst]

Hi everybody,

I just want to comment on one single point of what you mentioned: The 
long release cycle and the "bridging attitude" towards v5 some of you 
mentioned. As I do not follow the core list regularily (sorry for that), 
I cannot really say something to the other points.

Concerning the release cycle - I think we all agree that we wanted to 
have 4.3 out a lot earlier (we agreed on half-year cycles, but now we're 
approaching a year). However, I feel strongly that 4.3 will be a really 
nice and complete system, with the new FE Editing, a whole slew of other 
cool features and Extbase in place.
Thus, I feel OK with 4.3 having such a long development cycle. Of course 
I hope that we can shorten this a lot for 4.4 (maybe again to the 
half-year we initially thought of).

What brings me to the next point - the "bridging" and the inclusion of 
Extbase and Fluid. I have been heavily involved in this, so I might have 
a biased opinion on this ;-)
I still really feel excited and thrilled about the way Extbase and Fluid 
changes the way you develop. Yes, it does not "feel" like TYPO3 v4 
anymore (with complex method namings, very hard to gasp side-effects, 
etc), but (at least to me) it feels a lot like "it should be" - clear 
namings, quite easy to understand (if you look at existing concepts), 
etc. Thus, I still feel that it was the right thing to do including the 
concepts of FLOW3 into v4.
And concerning the next steps - I think now is a good time to have more 
and more people involved both in FLOW3 and TYPO3 v5 development. I think 
we're now approaching a phase where more and more people can help out, 
and I am really looking forward to it!

Just my 2 cents ;-)

Greets,
Sebastian

PS: I'm offline for the next week now, so I won't follow this discussion 
anymore until then.