[TYPO3-dev] [TYPO3-v4] Minutes of the 3rd meeting of the 4.7 Release Team
Steffen Ritter
steffen.ritter at typo3.org
Mon Dec 12 10:53:15 CET 2011
Hi dear TYPO3 community,
These are the minutes of the 3rd TYPO3 Release Team Meeting for version 4.7.
The minutes are also available in the wiki of TYPO3 4.7:
http://forge.typo3.org/projects/typo3v47-projects/wiki/3rd_Release_Team_Meeting_TYPO3_47
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Minutes from the 3rd meeting
The 4.7 release team meets weekly for a Skype discussion round on the
current activities. If you find this report interesting or have some
comment or question about a particular topic, don't hesitate to
follow-up on the thread in the v4 mailing list.
We intentionally omitted the minutes of the 2nd meeting as there had not
been something to report about.
On Monday, December 5th 2011 we hold our 3rd meeting with the following
participants:
* Steffen Ritter (4.7 Release Manager)
* Xavier Perseguers (4.6 Release Manager)
* Oliver Hader (Core Team Leader)
TYPO3 4.5, 4.6 and master
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We discussed again and spoke about the integration of sysext
linkvalidator to all actively maintained TYPO3 versions.
Until today, all these migrations have been, done and all patches
pending on review.typo3.org have been automatically rebased to the
branch having the additional submodule.
If you are working on git: you are required to do a "git submodule update"
TYPO3 4.7
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Alpha1 had been released successfully. The Frontend-Accessibility
Features already have been included and shipped with Alpha1.
Also for the first time we shipped a - currently only - GovernmentPackage.
Developement stalled??
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We wondered about the lack of downloads and feedback to Alpha1. As well
we figured out, that there is a problem getting reviews for pending
patches and features.
As TYPO3 4.7 has a very tough and straight internal work-plan which
could blew the whole release schedule this has been considered as a
highly critical issue.
We tried to identify the reasons for the lack and possible strategies
for more testing reviews.
We considered a combination of the following issues to be a reason for
our problems:
- the usual development pause after an major release of about 2 month
takes affect
- developers/core-team-members working in agencies are totaly stressed
with the usual pre-christmas work.
- as major parts of the 4.7 developement is based upon results of the
BLE-project, developers might be somehow think it is only the
responsibility of developers which got payed for their BLE work to
finish the tasks up and getting it done.
- an core-team internal discussion "about branding and strategy
related to TYPO3, FLOW3 and the next-generation CMS that is being
developed" which might have offended some developers, while the lack of
a conclusion and a results currently might prevent developers to
identify themselves with the project.
We really would like to have your feedback on this, what prevents you
from helping out and what we could improve, the get the ball rolling again.
Next Steps to Alpha2
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The two weeks as of December, 5th we liked to concentrate on the ExtJS4
Migration of the TYPO3 Backend, as well as general Improvements to
JavaScript issues within the backend.
Stanislas Rolland did a great Job already doing the migration, which now
has to be integrated into core and refined...
As he already did the work, we should appreciate it, and review his work
for a fast integration...
To test it, please apply these four patches:
https://review.typo3.org/#change,7092
https://review.typo3.org/#change,7096
https://review.typo3.org/#change,7103
https://review.typo3.org/#change,7094
We split the huge work up into smaller commits, so it would be easer to
track the work - but wan't work standalone...
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Regards
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Steffen Ritter
Release Manager TYPO3 4.7
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