[TYPO3-dev] not amused...

[Franz Holzinger]

Hello Dmitry,

> Steffen Ritter wrote:
>> There are mighty of patches which are worthy and big improovements on
>> TYPO3. Many of them just miss one core review. Others are even not
>> commented by any core-dev...
> 
> These issues did not just appear, they are there for ages. I also talk about them for 2 years now but with no effect (well except annoying everyone). Basically this made me stop actively working on a core since the beginning of the year. There is no point sending patches if no one reviews them.
The patches do not get reviewed because there are too few core 
developers. A non Core developer has no interest because his patches 
have been on the Core waiting list for years. If you don't pay the work 
then you should create at least a voucher system which give the 
developer and tester a right to get his own patches into Core within few 
days and not having _to wait for several years_! Why should someone be 
motivated to contribute to the TYPO3 Core if his own patches are never 
considered?

And I observe that others are prefered by some Core developers, and they 
always get their patches in, and they are very content with the current 
situation.

>> I know that we are all under a lot of work, some people might be on
>> holidays and I know that - for many of us - core work is freetime.
> 
> It is "free time" for the v4 team only.
> 
> I tried to push a "paid development" idea to anyone whom I could reach at t3dd. The answer from all decision making people is like "we do not want to pay for development" (I add: "...except to v5 for the last 3 years!"). The result is visible to everyone.
It is a deadlock situation for TYPO3.

> We also need a real testing team because relying on 1 or 2 review in a such complex system is completely  irresponsible idea, especially given a huge increase in a number of contributions. But no one listens!!! Everyone just says: "We are cool, TYPO3 is cool, all cool, T3A is cool, we will get a cool v5 soon, all is cool..." but nothing is cool for more than a year already.
TYPO3 has become too big. It is a wrong decision to put so many 
extensions as system extensions into the Core. Many more code parts of 
TYPO3 should be put into extensions to the TER. Then more persons 
(developoers and testers) could contribute more easily. Smaller parts 
are much easier to understand than a big system.
It is a weird thing that the TYPO3 system is always getting bigger and 
more complicated, and fewer persons work on it with less money being 
paid to them.

> Quality issues are also a problem. Every latest release after 4.2.3 was unclean and had major quality issues.
I have mostly stopped to report bugs on the bugtracker. There seems to 
be mostly no response and most patches (even containing bug fixes) are 
just closed and do not come into TYPO3. The quality and usability will 
never be improved if you just reject the patches! Why is no answer for 
improvements given? This happens always because of lack of time.

> TYPO3 needs changes and proper management if this product wants to survive!

+1


- Franz