[TYPO3-project-seminars] Seminar Manager 0.6.1 performance problems

[Tomas Balek]

Hi Oliver,

I understand your point and I understand my clients point, too.
I really appreciate your work and your efforts (of the whole developer 
team).
On the other hand, we want a program that works smoothly and which is 
easy to use.

It's nice that you have fun doing it (it would be sad if you hadn't ;))
But my opinion is that the extension is too complicated (too many 
features) and quite difficult to use.

The question is what's your goal: do you code for yourself (to have fun 
and learn) or do you code for others?
Some GNU/Open Source projects seem to be rather the first case.

My point is:
I like neat, fast and easy things to work with and
the Seminar Manager is rather slowing down my workflow.

What would you drive if you had the choice:
A VW Polo or a Porche?

Regards,
Tomas



> Hi Peter, hi Tomas,
>
> thanks for your thoughts.
>
> Maybe there are some misconceptions concerning how our development is 
> organized. I'll give it a try to make a few things clear.
>
> Peter Holik schrieb:
>   
>>> he meant something like, that a program which is coded well is 
>>> automatically fast and that he doesn't want to pay for cleaning your 
>>> bad code...
>>>       
>
>   
>> Which I find quite obvious too.
>> It is one thing to (agressively) ask for sponsorship for new features.
>> But to ask for money to clean your own code (bugs)? That's greed.
>>     
>
> If I understand you correctly, you assume that
>
> a) the Seminar Manager code is bad or not clean
> b) clean code automatically is fast
> c) improving code is work that should not be paid
> d) getting paid for extension development is greed
>
> (Please correct me if I have misunderstood you or misinterpreted your 
> words.)
>
> Concerning b), that is not always the case. Code that is clean is not 
> automatically fast, but just is more readable and easier to change 
> (which includes performance optimization, too)
>
> Performance optimization is a task that takes quite some time:
> - analyzing the code
> - finding bottlenecks
> - analyzing which changes actually improve performance
> - making sure that the changes don't break anything (e.g. by adding unit 
> tests for parts of the code that aren't already covered by unit tests)
>
> This we either could do in our spare time or in our work time (which 
> means that someone needs to pay for it). (Some of the work we actually 
> do in our spare time because it's a kind of work that's also fun, and we 
> decide for ourselves which work we do just for the fun of it.)
>
> With this extension, you can download tens of thousands of Euros worth 
> of development which was financed by other customers.
>
> This is a very important point: You don't pay for downloading the 
> extension, and we don't guarantee that this extension will cover all 
> your needs.
>
> When this extensions has shortcomings (which it certainly has), you have 
> quite a few options:
>
> - You can decide that this shortcoming is not important enough for you 
> to do anything about it.
> - You can decide that it would be nice for you if this got changed, but 
> it isn't important. Then you can enter a bug in a bug tracker to make us 
> aware of the problem.
> - You can decide that you needs this changed and provide some code 
> (which needs to live up to our quality standards so that we will 
> integrate it).
> - You decide that this needs to be changed and sponsor these changes.
> - You decide that this needs to be changed, but you don't would like to 
> spend money for this. Then you need to wait until either some other 
> customer invests time or money in this, or we until like to do this in 
> our spare time.
> - You don't generally need new features, but you would like to have any 
> bugs which you encounter to get fixed. That's why we offer support 
> contracts ("bug-fix flatrates").
>
> I hope I have been able to clear up a few points.
>
> Best regards,
>
>
> Oliver
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