[TYPO3-v4] Motivation for making patches or how to speed up the review process

[Dmitry Dulepov]

Hi Ingmar!

I will reply personally because I do not want to send my thoughts about it to the public list.

Ingmar Schlecht wrote:
> Hi Dmitry,
> 
> Dmitry Dulepov wrote:
>> At least half a year ago official position was "we do not pay for
>> development". I heard this from two of the top TYPO3 persons
>> independently. Strangely, these rules does not apply to v5 team.
> 
> As you know, we do have an "important development pot" in the v4 budget,
> which can be used also for things like important bug-fixing prior to
> releases etc. The fact that we use the v4 budget mostly for things like
> travel-cost and other things than paying for the development of new
> features was one decided on by the v4 core team, so I reject the notion
> that it's a strange fact being imposed from somewhere abstract above.
> 
> For 4.4, the plans I heard from Benni were that he wants to mainly use
> the budget for the stabilization period coming after the feature freeze,
> which I think is a sensible suggestion given that we have a limited
> budget and follow a mainly volunteer based development model.
> 
> cheers
> Ingmar

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Dmitry Dulepov
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