[TYPO3-project-4-3] TYPO3 4.3 status report 27/2008

[Oliver Hader]

TYPO3 4.3 Development status report of week 27/2008

*General*
At the T3DD08 the first alpha release of TYPO3 4.3 was scheduled to be 
published on June 7th 2008. But as you might have noticed, there wasn't 
such a release. The reason was that not that many big features entered 
the development branch and thus a release is not justified at the 
moment. The main focus is of course to have as much as possible of the 
sponsored projects in a release.
TYPO3 4.3-alpha1 is adjourned to August 4th 2008 which will hopefully 
contain the basic functionality of the planned big features. The updated 
Roadmap [1] can be found on Forge.

*Sponsored projects*
The initial three sponsored projects have officially been announced by 
the TYPO3 Association [2]. Funneling money to the developers will allow 
them to spend more time working on the Core and will thus speed up the 
development of TYPO3.

The first three projects that are up for sponsoring are:
* the new Installer which will provide new users with a smoother TYPO3 
installation experience and enable experienced users to customise their 
install tool.
* the new List module which aims to fully renew the old List module and 
add some general new features (like drag & drop) that could be used 
throughout the TYPO3 backend.
* the new FORM object that will provide enhanced form capabilities, a 
user-friendly wizard and powerful built-in validation methods.

*Miscellaneous*
TYPO3 Core Member Benjamin Mack just started to work on a mass file 
uploader for front-end and back-end disposal. This feature is based on 
Flash to enable multiple files to be selected from local harddrive and 
to be transferred to the storage server.
Thanks to AOE media [3], Wiesbaden/Germany for sponsoring the 
development of this great enhancement.

In the last status report a meeting of the TYPO3v4 and TYPO3v5 teams was 
mentioned. This session is planned to take place after the T3CON08 in 
October 2008. The main goals are to outline ways to get the development 
strands of v4 and v5 closer together and to possibly reuse concepts and 
code (FLOW3, MVC and techniques in general).

- olly

[1] http://forge.typo3.org/wiki/typo3v4-core/43_roadmap
[2] 
http://news.typo3.org/news/article/typo3-association-announces-sponsored-projects/
[3] http://www.aoemedia.de/
-- 
Oliver Hader
TYPO3 4.3 Release Manager