[TYPO3-calendar] future of cal -> new maintainer

[Jan Helke]

Hello everybody

First of all I would like to thank Mario for the work he had done over  
the last years. And of course for the kind words to introduce me to all 
you fine people.

As Mario wrote, I plan to bring ext:cal to the next level. And from the 
current point of view that means "full compatibility with TYPO3 9 LTS". 
My first priority is to enable everybody to update their projects to the 
latest LTS version.

To archive this goal, I plan to release a version 2.0.0 latest next 
Sunday. But, as you might agree upon, nobody could be able to know every 
edge case, ext:cal was used in the last years. So I rely on you folks to 
test that new version and report any bug that appears with the new 
version but not with the old one.
If you are in an adventurous mood, feel free to try the master branch 
right now.
https://gitlab.com/janhelke/cal/tree/master

That new version comes also with two drawbacks for some of you. Those of 
you familiar with semantic versioning will recognize that 2.0.0 is a 
breaking version. "Breaking" in this case means: "No further support for 
any TYPO3 version below 8 LTS." The second drawback is, that I will not 
maintain any version of ext:cal below 2.0.0 with features or bug fixes. 
Due to this constraints I will reject all issues that refer to either 
TYPO3 4.5, 6.2 and 7 LTS or to any 1.x.y version of ext:cal.

Roadmap

Version 2.0.0
Release: End of January 2019
- Dealing with all Breaking Changes made by TYPO3 from version 8 LTS to 
9 LTS
- The extension should work as reliable as the last 1.x.y version did 
with TYPO3 8 LTS but also with TYPO3 9 LTS. So don’t expect many bug 
fixes for stuff, that is already broken.
- The categories provided by cal are abandoned and replaced by 
sys_categories. An update wizard to migrate the categories is provided 
in the system maintenance area.
- New .svg icons.

Version 2.x.y
The next steps will be:
- Dealing with all deprecations from TYPO3 9 LTS to ease the path to 10 
LTS.
- Fix issues that arise from differences between documentation and code. 
Read: It's written in the manual but doesn't work as promised.
- Refactoring by deprecate a lot of outdated code from ext:cal and 
replace with new code.
IMPORTANT: If you use and / or maintain extensions that rely on 
deprecated code of ext:cal, you need to get your code in order in 
version 2.x.y. All deprecated code will be removed in version 3. So 
check your error log, all deprecations shall be mentioned there.
I expect to last version 2.x.y until the EOL of 9 LTS.

Version 3.0.0
Release: Latest together with TYPO3 10 LTS.
That will be the place to add shiny new features. Maybe they will be 
back ported to version 2.x.y, maybe not.

I hope, the majority of you is fine with this approach.

With best regards from Hamburg / Germany

Jan Helke



Am 22.01.19 um 17:42 schrieb Mario Matzulla:
> Dear list,
>
> it has been quite a while since I wrote my last note. My time got 
> limited more and more and I couldn't keep track with the TYPO3 update
> anymore.
>
> BUT gladly there are people out there, who believe in cal and have 
> offered their help
>
> So today I can announce, that I step back and hand over the lead to 
> Jan Helke. Jan has been a TYPO3 developer since 2004. I think he is the
> perfect man and will bring cal to the next level.
>
> I wanna say thank you to all of you. I have had a wonderful time.
>
> Jan, it's all yours
>
> Regards,
> Mario
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Am 22.01.19 um 17:42 schrieb Mario Matzulla:
> Dear list,
>
> it has been quite a while since I wrote my last note. My time got limited more and more and I couldn't keep track with the TYPO3 update
> anymore.
>
> BUT gladly there are people out there, who believe in cal and have offered their help :)
>
> So today I can announce, that I step back and hand over the lead to Jan Helke. Jan has been a TYPO3 developer since 2004. I think he is the
> perfect man and will bring cal to the next level.
>
> I wanna say thank you to all of you. I have had a wonderful time.
>
> Jan, it's all yours :)
>
> Regards,
> Mario
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