[TYPO3-v4] Improving backend search for 4.4 and 4.5

[Ernesto Baschny [cron IT]]

Stefan Neufeind schrieb am 19.09.2011 11:56:

>> Any other ideas for sharing such nice-to-have patches for older versions?

> I've wondered about various patches  which improve usability, speed or
> the like why they can't go into a LTS-version. If people should stay "a
> long time" with 4.5 we could maybe decide on a case-by-case basis where
> it makes sense to have a feature "backported" because of dramatic
> improvements.

Speed improvements are welcome in 4.5. If they of course don't break
backwards compatibility or change the user interface.

> I personally don't think it's really worth to care about improvements
> for 4.4. However with an LTS-version that's a different case imho.

Agreed.

People wanting new features (even if they are enhancements of current
features) should try to upgrade to the latest release as soon as it is
out. Every 6 months there is a new release anyway.

I am skeptical about the need to backport many stuff to 4.5, but there
are edge cases where it might be worth to take a look, as it would be
with the improvement of the live-search (haven't look at it yet).

Collecting the backported patches "somewhere" seems to be a good
compromise, but as Dmitry stated, we shouldn't have it look too
official, else we loose some of the key benefits (and reasons) for
people to upgrade to newer releases.

Cheers,
Ernesto