[TYPO3-v4] Minutes of the 3rd meeting of the 4.7 Release Team

[Steffen Ritter]

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

-- 
Steffen Ritter
Release Manager TYPO3 4.7

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