[TYPO3-v4] Minutes of the 13 meeting of the 4.6 Release Team

Wed Jul 13 11:03:10 CEST 2011

Hi dear TYPO3 community,

Here are the notes of the 13th meeting of the 4.6 Release Team.

The minutes are also available in the wiki of TYPO3 4.6:
http://forge.typo3.org/projects/typo3v46-projects/wiki/2011-07-11_-_Minutes_from_the_13th_meeting

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Minutes from the 13th meeting of the 4.6 Release Team

The 4.6 release team meets weekly for a Skype discussion round on the 
current activities. If you find this report interesting or have some 
comment or question about a particular topic, don't hesitate to 
follow-up on the thread in the v4 mailing list.

On Monday, July 11th 2011 we held our 13th meeting with the following 
participants:

* Xavier Perseguers (4.6 Release Manager)
* Oliver Hader (Core Team Leader)
* Ernesto Baschny (4.5 Release Manager)
* Steffen Kamper (4.5 Technical Leader)
* Benjamin Mack (4.4 Release Manager)

Topics
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T3DD11 is over and we all enjoyed it very much. A lot of very 
interesting topics were discussed and a tremendous work was done on 
reviews and finalizing new features. The few people not yet accustomed 
to Git and Gerrit have had the opportunity to participate to ad-hoc 
workshops helping them to set up their development environment.

Form project
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During the Core team meeting, last week, I discussed possible inclusion 
of this project into alpha3 but Patrick preferred to postpone it right 
after the release. As such, inclusion should hopefully be done this 
week. The demo we had was very appreciated and we all long for it.

Steffen reported that he did some tests on master a while ago but did 
not review the code. He enjoyed it and only had problems with TYPO3.lang 
(JavaScript part). This issue should have been fixed by now, both by 
making TYPO3.lang behaves as before for legacy code and by using the 
current new API, with TYPO3.l10n.localize().

Steffen pointed out that tests should be done with the caching framework 
in frontend as there was once some glitches there.

Toolbar in ExtJS
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Refactoring of the top toolbar with brand new API to manipulate it is 
postponed for TYPO3 4.7.

Jens and Fabien worked together and discussed the concept of dashboard. 
They came up with a 2-mode widget, one "full view" to be used as a 
backend module and a "mini-variant" that could be integrated to the 
toolbar for short messages such as security alerts. This is another 
reason to think about it quietly and not rush into some half-baked 
solution in 4.6.

TCEforms Refactoring
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Andreas presented us the status of the TCEforms refactoring. At the 
moment he thoroughly examined current code and thought about a clean 
abstraction to hold all concepts. We then discussed some of them and had 
to figure out that we lack manpower on this topic, Andreas is active in 
other challenging topics such as FAL (File Abstraction Layer) and he 
needs help.

We decided to pause this refactoring for a while and integrate it very 
early after kick-off of TYPO3 4.7.

[ *TODO* ] Analyse whether to use JS widgets "manually" integrated into 
HTML code or go for a full ExtJS application

Install Tool
----------------------------

Project is going on. Benni is aware of the few bugs Steffen found some 
while ago.

S.C.O.T.T.Y.
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The SCOTTY team held a few presentations last week and we all agreed 
that it really was worth pursuing this "semantic quest". Some PoCs are 
available (categorizing content, querying for it) but still has to mature.

For TYPO3 4.6, we decided to stick to adding a hook in t3lib_DB allowing 
UUID/GUID to be managed by the different semantic upcoming extensions. 
Hopefully, Core-integration of UUID and category could be one of the 
wanted features for TYPO3 4.7.

XLIFF
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XLIFF has been completely integrated into master. We now wait for the 
productive Pootle server to be up and running to replace the various 
locallang.xml files by their .xlf equivalent.

Dominique got in touch with Dmitry during T3DD11. The current 
translation server has been blocked and the translation teams have been 
informed that they won't be able to contribute for about 10 days. This 
means that we expect the new translation server to be ready to use until 
next week.

Until yesterday we had a big power problem (CPU and RAM) with the 
virtual machine we got. We both decided to switch to an externally 
hosted solution until Michael is back from holidays. The new server we 
have is just blazing fast. Domminique reported that a 6-hour work with 
100% CPU load was then performed in about 20 minutes and that the Pootle 
frontend was still totally usable.

We still would like to have more visibility for the translation teams, 
typically with a Forge project, just as the documentation team.

[ *TODO* Xavier/Olly ] Set up such a project

htmlArea RTE / TinyMCE
----------------------------

As announced, I started the discussion in the mailing list to gather 
feedback from the community.

[ *TODO* Xavier ] Prepare a summary

Indexed Search
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Just as other subprojects (I think of linkvalidator), we plan to use a 
Git submodule for system extension indexed_search. However, I'm not 
willing to do this change before feature freeze because it causes lots 
of trouble with pending reviews and would cause more harm than good. As 
such *new Git submodules are postponed to right after the feature freeze*.

[TODO *Benni* ] Integrate full text solution from Michael and plugin in 
Extbase (pi2) before feature freeze

Card Layout
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[ *TODO* Steffen ] Get in touch with Kay to see if his solution is 
stable enough to be integrated before feature freeze

init.php Refactoring
----------------------------

A workshop took place during T3DD11 and the team came up with exciting 
ideas, still maybe too ambitious for TYPO3 4.6.

Basically the concept is to have a bootstrap initializing required 
"components" (define constants, initialize database, ...) with 
dependencies and then have different contexts with according 
dependencies ("context BE", "context FE", "context BE AJAX", ...).

[ *TODO* Ernesto ] See that a patch in Gerrit is ready until Wednesday 
20th July, to have enough time before feature freeze

Link Validator
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Project is now using Git instead of Subversion. This will allow us to 
integrate it as submodule but as said, not before feature freeze. In the 
meantime, the release team will take care of backporting the work into Core.

Misc
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Gerrit is now available without being authenticated, read-only of course.

Dates
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* TYPO3 4.6 alpha3 on July 12th 2011
* *Feature Freeze and TYPO3 4.6 beta1 on August 2nd 2011*
   no new features and no exceptions after the feature freeze date
* Final Release of TYPO3 4.6.0 on October 25th 2011

Next steps
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If you feel interested in a particular project or task, please reply on 
the list or directly get in contact with Xavier Perseguers as Release 
Manager of TYPO3 4.6.

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Cheers
Xavier

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Xavier Perseguers
Release Manager TYPO3 4.6

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