[TYPO3-dev] TER troubles again

[Michael Scharkow]

Martin Kutschker wrote:

> I'm really disappinted that currently no visible work is put into 
> typo3.org or TER2. The association has collected money. Please spend it 
> to fix TER. TER is a vital part of the community. It *IS* important that 
> it works flawless.

I committed a large update to the TER FE a few weeks ago but it has not 
been deployed until now because Robert was on honeymoon and nobody else 
could do it. The reason for all the trouble with TER and typo3.org is 
that we're blatantly understaffed, basically a handful of people is in 
charge of every- and anything. While this situation has improved in the 
core team, all the other teams are still seriously lacking support.

I guess this is in part the failure of the community which seems to be 
less willing to actually help than in other software projects, but also 
(my guess) in part the fault of the TYPO3 leadership that is busy with 
planning and building crazy amounts of teams most of which never get the 
job done. If you read Kasper's article in the current t3n mag, you'll 
see my point. Robert proposed a team structure for typo3.org some time 
ago, with virtually no response. On the other hand, applications for 
teams are not processed because there are no responsibilities for that.

I know this has been proposed before, but since team-building does not 
seem to work out, how about a real job board where specific tasks are 
available to interested people. not teams. We need at least

- a typo3.org general editor who makes sure there are news and articles 
posted more often than once a year, who rearranges content, deletes old 
stuff, etc.
- a TER administrator who maintains the code as well as the installation
- a documentation admin who does the above for documentation

I could go on...

The point is that none of the jobs takes more than a few hours a week, 
but they should be done by people who are *not* simultanously in the 
core, R&D, bug fixing and whatnot team.

Okay, I ranted as well...

Cheers,
Michael