[FLOW3-general] Schedule and roadmap for FLOW3

[Manuel Strausz]

Robert Lemke schrieb:
> Hi folks,
> 
> I've been a bit silent recently regarding what's planned for the next releases of FLOW3. For one it was this Christmas thingy which took some time and other reasons for not writing a little blog article about the roadmap were 1) I still don't have a blog and 2) I was pretty much consumed by some development work for FLOW3.
> 
> Well, we do have a master plan though. Yeah, we do! ;-)

Hiya Robert,

great news indeed ;)

> FLOW3 1.0.0 alpha 7 will be released on January 18th. It will contain a few breaking changes but we do our best to give you a smooth transition by providing documentation and some migration script. Besides these breaking changes it will also contain some very neat features, mainly addressing resource management and persistence.

That's ok, it's still alpha after all. Everyone knows things can still 
bend and break, in fact I think it's important that you still allow 
yourselves some architectural refactoring where necessary, even in later 
stages. In the long run that's always better than making foul 
compromises because you don't want to "break" certain things.
Just from my personal experience ;)

> FLOW3 1.0.0 alpha 8 is scheduled for March 1st and will focus on Content Security and speed.

Yay. Security is indeed one thing that is hard to get right (if you want 
to make it easily configurable), with the many layers that might have to 
be taken into account. AOP really does make a lot of sense in this 
particular area, so I'm glad FLOW3 supports it. I *do* have a project in 
heavy need of refactoring (or rather: rebuilding, 6 years is a long 
time) that has a lot of complex security aspects to it. I think it could 
give you some worthwhile input regarding the security framework soon.

> After alpha8 has been released, we'll decide if we need an alpha9 or go to the next level and prepare a first beta release.

I think that largely depends on if you are feeling "I can build 
real-world projects with this without too much hassle". :)

> Besides our work on FLOW3 and TYPO3 5.0 itself, Karsten and I are currently working on some extensive manual and a real world project based on FLOW3.

Like previously mentioned, I'll also get a few realworld projects up and 
running, which are in dire need of refactoring. I must admit I'm still a 
bit skeptical about how well the CR scales with more complex data 
structures, so that's something I'd like to be able to test when you 
release alpha 8.

> I'm really glad that so many of you are currently experimenting with FLOW3! Keep on filing bug reports and ideas for improvement, that really helps us a lot!

And I'm really glad I've looked into the FLOW3 project. Finally someone 
does all the important things right, and I don't have to keep writing my 
own framework anymore (hopefully). Yay.

> Well, back to work now, have a great week!
> Robert
> 

You too, thanks for the status update.
Happy coding folks :)

Manuel