[TYPO3-dev] not amused...

[Franz Holzinger]

Dmitry Dulepov a écrit :

> 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.
TYPO3 could offer a better page and list module as extensions if you buy 
a licence fee. Money could also be collected by this way.
How should companies want to sponsor money to TYPO3, if their patches 
won't make it into the Core? They are forced to put everything into 
their own extensions. There is at the moment no pratical way to 
contribute code to the community. And if the sponsor TYPO3, then all 
money is invested into version 5.x only.
It would already help a lot to have a simple PHP programmer paid who 
just tests and commits the patches which have already 2 '+1's. It should 
not be necessary to have a core developer for this job. An automatic 
test would be fine.

> 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?
I have already created extensions with an improved page, list module and 
TCE (the code has mostly just been copied from TYPO3 4.3), because I see 
no chance in getting enough response in the future from the Core list 
and others cannot wait for TYPO3 4.3, they want to use it already now 
under TYPO3 4.2. I am trying to sell the next more improved versions of 
these extensions. It will be available in TER after about 3 years. Maybe 
this is a way to get sponsorship for the current work being done. If you 
want to join, then you are welcome.
I have already succeeded in collecting money for sponsoring the 
development of some paymentlib extensions. Now most of them are freely 
available in TER.

- Franz