[TYPO3-english] [TYPO3-core] Announcing TYPO3 CMS 7.0

[Daniel Neugebauer]

Hi!

We got similar questions when we saw the roadmap today. Your previous
answer already solves some of them but IMHO there's one even more
important question that has to be asked:

On 12/04/2014 04:35 PM, Stefan Neufeind wrote:
> When CMS 7 LTS is out, you can base new things on that one or upgrade
> from 6.2 again - but you don't need to (as quickly as you need to move
> from 4.5 to 6.2 imho).
> 
> If you're "advanturous" you can of course start something new on 7.0.
> But please note that it contains new feature and larger changes that
> might need to stablize a bit first. So upgrading from there to 7.1 etc.
> should be on your roadmap then imho.

You wrote "when CMS 7 LTS is out" - well, actually it is out now. At
least, that's what the homepage says... ;)

Looking at the roadmap it sounds more like all versions until 7 LTS are
going to be development releases - and development releases usually
shouldn't be used in production. I'm not sure if that is the case or if
every version until 7 LTS already is considered stable enough for
production use. Of course, x.0 versions of *any* software probably isn't
but what about the upcoming releases 7.1, 7.2, ...?

If all versions but the next LTS release(s) are going to be development
releases, does that mean TYPO3 has switched to major releases only (no
more stable/production minor releases, stable versions are always LTS
and each LTS ends the current major version)?


And of course, I'm wondering why development on TYPO3 continues in such
way - wouldn't it be better to concentrate all development on Neos
instead? Sorry for asking what you probably have been asked so often
already, but I actually thought that a complete Neos would be the next
big release, not TYPO3 7. :)

Thanks,
Daniel