[TYPO3-v4] Abandoning patches

[Andreas Wolf]

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Hi Dmitry,

Am 20.12.2011 10:07, schrieb Dmitry Dulepov:
> Several patches that I submitted or reviewed were abandoned by
> various persons with reasons like "issue XYZ will take care of it"
> or "FAL will do this anyway". However nothing was submitted to fix
> issues I fixed with my patches. This worries me because it does not
> feel right to abandon working solutions in favor of no action.
> Nobody knows when FAL is coming (and don't tell it is definitely
> coming in "this version" because v5 was definitely coming in 2007).
> Neither the alternative bug fix was submitted. So at least two
> things stay non-fixed.

I share your worries. Even if FAL solves the problems, we still have
4.5 which does not have FAL (and will most likely never have it), so
issues have to be fixed. And there's no good reason (except our lack
of resources) to hinder development just because "there's something
new around the corner".


> We need to fix bugs here and now. We can't wait until somebody
> somewhere somehow in some future fixes it if we have a ready fix
> right now in Gerrit. So do not abandon changes that are useful for
> TYPO3. With such actions you do not do any good for TYPO3, you
> actually do bad to our loved CMS.

Could you please point me to the relevant bug ids/reviews? I would
volunteer to review these patches (probably not this year though) -
and also have a look if these issues are also relevant for FAL.


> I think people should be prohibited from abandoning changes unless
> the change breaks something OR they immediately submit a better
> solution. That would be fair for each of developers and good for
> TYPO3.

+1


Cheers
Andreas
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