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

[François Suter]

Hi Steffen,

> 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 was said by Georg, this may not be significant as early adopters may 
well be working straight from Git.

> - the usual development pause after an major release of about 2 month
> takes affect

Definitely for me. Up to now we have a single project planned with 4.6, 
most are targeted at 4.5, because clients appreciate LTS. So - from a 
business point of view - 4.7 seems far too "distant".

> - developers/core-team-members working in agencies are totaly stressed
> with the usual pre-christmas work.

Absolutely the case here!

> - 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.

Not for me, this doesn't matter. But I would support having a 
commit-freeze until all the BLE stuff is merged. This might be seen as 
quite "aggressive", but - as far as I understand this project - all 
Core-related stuff from the BLE *has* to go into 4.7, as we're not going 
to maintain a separate version of TYPO3 for this government agency, are 
we? So I would just freeze everything until all the stuff is in and then 
resume normal development. I would say this should be done until alpha2, 
so that we're done with that and can see what else can go into this release.

> - 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.

No strong influence for me, except the time spent helping with this 
discussion, which led me to postpone submission of a couple of patches.

Cheers

-- 

Francois Suter
Cobweb Development Sarl - http://www.cobweb.ch