[TYPO3-dev] not amused...

[ben van 't ende [netcreators]]

Hi Steffen,

Your concerns are on the monitor. We will have some talks about this in the 
Steering Committee. Especially the release cycle is one. I am in favor of an 
Ubuntu kind of release cycle.

gRTz

ben



Steffen Gebert wrote:
> 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


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