[TYPO3-dev] not amused...

[Steffen Gebert]

Hi Francois,

thans for your answer!

> What would really improve the situation would be if we released versions
> more often. If you knew that you just had to wait 6 months for new
> features, it would be less of a heartbreak than a 18 months wait. We
> dearly wanted to release 4.3 much earlier, but it didn't happen for a
> whole lot of reasons. Manpower, again, is one of them.
Yes, I really think shorter release cycles would improve TYPO3 (and it's  
developement) a lot!

>> Nevertheless I have the same feelings about factions of core
>> developers (kind of "ignoring" other factions or often only chalking
>> up missing documentation).
>
> I feel personnally addressed by that remark, as I have often sent
> reminders about missing documentation. Maybe you feel that documentation
> is not important. That's not my point of view. There are already many
> things which are not documented at all or not properly. At least I try
> to keep track of what new features get in and make sure these are
> documented.

Documentation is very important, of course! I was really happy to see your  
service documentation and immediately started implementing an own login  
service (checking weather a user has paid his setup fee after X months).

What I had in mind during writing these lines were postings, where answers  
only containing sth. like "there's no documentation with your patch, so  
-1" and postings from other people like "documentation will be added  
tomorrow", where nobody objected (and I have a feeling to see tendencies).

So nothing against documentation - IMHO a docu has to be submitted with  
patches (which need docu)!

Steffen