[TYPO3-dev] not amused...

[Dmitry Dulepov]

Hi!

Francois Suter wrote:
> I would rather say that they did their best. This is not a criticism.
> It's just that I think that in terms of project management, it was not
> good work. But it's the best anyone could have done given the
> conditions. I could see that with sponsored projects (or at least with
> the one that got sponsored, the new FORM object): part of my tasks were
> to follow the project development, which means checking what the
> developer was doing, checking with the sponsors that they were satisfied
> and doing their part (namely testing and validating). All this took far
> more time than we thought initially and I ended up not doing it, which
> explains a part of the delay (but not all), as some problems lingered
> for far too long.

I fully agree. Guys work in their free time and they really do good for this. But it is not enough. TYPO3 should really look forward to a better, more professional management of releases.

> So, yes, project (=release) management takes a lot of time, which means
> it should be paid for, so that people can spend the appropriate amount
> of time doing it.

+1.

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