[TYPO3-english] A black day for the TYPO3 community

[Thomas Skierlo]

Hi,

discussions on various lists over the last years proved to me that, 
after the old captain has abandoned the ship, a new management has moved 
in. It's members are all captains, or to be more precise, they are 
"programming captains" with a firm understanding of the very latest 
programming paradigms -- but a serious lack of understanding of the term 
"CMS". CMS were once invented to allow "normal, none programming people" 
to publish content. TV was (and still is) a strong building stone for 
those users, since the core continuously neglects the demand for 
modern/individual content elements. Today we have an ultraslim core, 
which can't really handle "Content" in terms of today's needs.

Over the last 5 years I noticed a very strange thing. While the vast 
majority of users build feature rich websites with the help of TV, some 
core team members started a kind of campaign against TV ("nobody needs 
TV"). Hopefully they only did it for technical reasons. I don't know.

I stopped using TV for new projects for that very reason in 2008, just 
to find out that there was no real alternative. In fact there isn't any 
today, at least if you wish to use versioning as well as multilingual 
features. I knew that the time would come for a hard break between TV 
and the core, and I expected it for 6.0. To my surpriseTolleivagain did 
the trick. Now he stops any further development -- and I can clearly 
understand his decision.

Without attending TYPO3 Camp Stuttgart I really feel ashame for those 
people cheering on Tolleiv's decision to stop TV. I doubt that any of 
them will ever play a positive role in a way Tolleiv did.

I'd wish the people in the core team would realize the need for a 
sophisticated content element inside the core. In an (E)CMS the "C"-part 
can never be a place for an extension. It's like a car manufacturer 
which only builds chassis, leaving engines to the community. This will 
never work, as you can see if you realize the decrease of TYPO3's 
popularity over the years.

The current situation is no problem for the inner circle. Itactually 
might even profit from it --at least until the last customer of TYPO3 
hasmoved on to other shores. For TYPO3 it's just another stab in it's 
back -- possibly the final one.

I've burned thousands of hours taking pace with TYPO3 development since 
2008, and on my way I've lost any hope in the existence of reasonable 
strategies for TYPO3 -- not as a development framework, but as a CMS, 
which it once was.

Anyhow: Thank you for your great work, Tolleiv!

Regards,

Thomas Skierlo