[TYPO3-dev] not amused...

[Dmitry Dulepov]

Hi!

Oliver Hader wrote:
> Dmitry Dulepov schrieb:
>> A year ago I proposed to have paid developers for TYPO3 v4. The answer was: "T3A does not want to pay for the development". I do not know, may be it is changed now.
> 
> Who told that?

I promise to tell you when we meet personally. I do not want to put any names here.

> You know that we have a pot in v4 for important
> development since you also got paid for the RSAAuth feature in TYPO3
> 4.3. This pot is available for every core developer that likes to work
> on an important feature or bugfix...

I am not talking about this kind of sponsoring for features. They look like desperate measures to get something important done. My strong opinion is that we need at least two developers working full time on v4 and those developers should not be experiementers, they should implement major planned features.

> Well, the main problem is that the T3A does not have enough money to
> empoly every core developer. It would be better to get new sponsors and
> T3A members. There are a lot of compainies out there that built their
> business on TYPO3 but are not willing to give any sponsoring back...

I am not talking about every core developer. This is surely not possible now. I mean only 1 or 2 people. If features start to appear fast due to their permanent work, the money might start to appear. Another solution would be to have an advanced version of TYPO3 (like Magento has). Yet another solution is to provide consultations and services to agencies through the T3A (tt_news, realurl, irre, core services, etc). Agency asks T3A for the expert and pays to T3A for the work. T3A pays to the developer.

There are lots of possibilities how to get money and how to organize it well for developers and T3A. The question is: does anyone do anything in that direction?

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