[TYPO3-english] Last TYPO3 version without fluid/extbase

[Philipp Gampe]

Hi Tonix,

Tonix (Antonio Nati) wrote:

> So, you are publicly declaring that there is no central coordination and
> planning on future releases of TYPO3, and the direction of a release may
> be a surprise for core members themselves.

I am not a member of the core team. But I always had a slight idea on what 
was going to happen by reading the news articles published on T3o and Buzz.

I also spoke to some core team members and took part in the public 
discussion.

IMHO, this have been main focuses of 6.0:
* integration of FAL with much buzz around it, including the decision to 
name the release 6.0 instead of 4.8
* refactoring the bootstrap (mostly done by Christian), not much buzz, but 
mostly technical
* renaming all classes and files, some buzz on the tech channels and in the 
meeting protocols, but once again, this is mostly technical
* integration of new EM, planned and announce publicly at least via the tech 
channels
* rewrite of the BE user module, no buzz before, because a non core dev just 
did it

Other than that, lots of bugfixing has taken place and quite a lot of people 
introduced new features.

Nobody can plan ahead without knowing who will do what. People can just 
announce that they are working on something, like Susanne for the extension 
manager, Christian on the bootstrap and the FAL team on FAL.

There is a fixed release date together with a schedule for feature freeze.

What is in (merged) before feature freeze will build the next version. That 
is it.

There is no definite plan, but only announcements and ideas. It then all 
depends on people actively doing some work.
This is how TYPO3 CMS is done. Whoever feels responsible to do something 
does it. For bigger changes it is a wise idea to first collect some feedback 
before investing time into something that will not be accepted, but this 
should be clear to everyone.

TYPO3 CMS is done by the hands-on strategy. Without payed coders, this will 
not change.

Cheers
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