[TYPO3-dev] not amused...

[Dmitry Dulepov]

Hi!

Jigal van Hemert wrote:
>> TYPO3 needs changes and proper management if this product wants to
>> survive!
> 
> +1
> 
> And people still question the advantage of a kingdom over anarchy/republic?

I prefer dictatorship :D

> King Dmitry really sounds nice, doesn't it? ;-)
> (Nothing negative meant by this!)

I would be killed next day :D If I were something like Kasper, I would dismiss the current core team and start getting people using certain criteria (for example, ability to choose between cool and sensible, ability to think from a customer point of view, ability to write clean and simple code, etc). I would not be a good king because I have a very high quality standards for myself and for people I would like to have in a team. Sometimes I can beat my own head if I do not go high enough to my own expectations. I just can't have anything less than perfect :( Very few people could work under such leadership. Btw, I recently read that Steve Jobs is somewhat this type of leader ("Don't like my way? You are fired!").

I do not want to say that the current core team is bad. It is a good team of truly professional developers. But modern world dictates other rules to us than they were 2–3 years ago and the team does not recognize it (yet?). We (meaning TYPO3) should be strongly customer–oriented, not self–oriented. Right now we are very self–oriented. We seek for cool solutions, not for customer satisfaction. We talk about having a cool MVC framework and DDD, not about how to make the product more modern looking or more user friendly. We talk and think like programmers, not like customers. This is our major problem: not solutions but frameworks.

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