[TYPO3-dev] FLOW3 / TYPO3 5.0

[JoH asenau]

> there are enough people here in the list and did make responses that
> have the right to say something. it' not all about direct donation in
> terms of $$$. The V4 (core) people  really keep TYPO3 alive in terms
> of submitting extensions, managing  the mailinglists, managing the IRC
> channel,
> providing patches to core V4,  developing extensions for V4, patching
> an releasing new versions of V4. All these people have a right to say
> something
> after all it's there investment into there future, if they have
> stomach itches
> about FLOW3 then they can say that.
> If it wasn't for them, TYPO3 would have been dead.

Well - but this has nothing to do with a deadline for the FLOW3 and/or V5
project.

There are many of the V4 people you are talking about, who would never
accept any kind of pressure or deadlines just because "it's all voluntary
work and nobody paid for it" - so you just have to wait or pay them or
somebody else to do the job. Which is one of the reasons why there are still
so many open bugs and patches that never got applied, which is true for
major extensions as well.

There were even people who said, they don't want to be paid, because they
don't want to be forced to do the job, but decide themselves when and how to
do it. Which is absolutely OK because this is how most of the Open Source
projects work.

But what is not OK is, when exactly those people try to put the pressure
they would *never* accept for themselves on people *they* never paid. IMHO
this means to apply double standards, which is just unfair, regardless of
the merit one might have earned within the V4 project.

Joey

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