[TYPO3-v4] Minutes from the 9th meeting of the 4.6 Release Team

[Xavier Perseguers]

Hi dear TYPO3 community,

With some delay, here are the notes of the 9th meeting of the 4.6 
Release Team.

The minutes are also available in the wiki of TYPO3 4.6:
http://forge.typo3.org/projects/typo3v46-projects/wiki/2011-05-23_-_Minutes_from_the_9th_meeting

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Minutes from the 9th meeting of the 4.6 Release Team

The 4.6 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.

On Monday, May 23rd 2011 we held our 9th meeting with the following 
participants:

* Xavier Perseguers (4.6 Release Manager)
* Oliver Hader (Core Team Leader)
* Ernesto Baschny (4.5 Release Manager)
* Benjamin Mack (4.4 Release Manager)
* Ben van't Ende (Community Manager)

Topics
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According to Benni, 203 people attending the latest TYPO3 camp week-end. 
Ernesto found it inspiring, with many talks about Extbase and Fluid. 
That's great to see so many people excited about these technologies. One 
of the main question was to define "what is Extbase" and the answer is a 
bridge technology.

You certainly heard of or participated in the recent BigBlueButton 
meeting where the future of Extbase started to be discussed. This really 
was fruitful and the minutes already have been published on their wiki [1].

Form project
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Patrick told us that he does not want to include his code as long as it 
has not been properly tested. We discussed this and will make sure the 
code (that takes over the form cObject) will find its way as patches or 
Gerrit reviews.

XLIFF
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Good news, a meeting is happening next week and Dominique made some 
progress on the topic [2]. More on this during next week, with our 10th 
Minutes.

Toolbar in ExtJS
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Stephen and me had a Skype chat session and we will think about some 
basic API for the toolbar.

TCEforms refactoring
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Andreas is currently mainly focusing on FAL. Current code is hosted on 
GitHub: https://github.com/andreaswolf/typo3-tceforms and we will 
hopefully have something to be integrated in some weeks.

Install Tool
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Benni told us that work on documentation, update of some texts and so on 
should start in 2-3 weeks. T3DD11 will be the opportunity to finalize 
most of this refactoring.

FAL
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We miss some feedback and will try to be more present to make sure we 
can introduce some initial work such as the API in alpha2. Project is 
hosted on GitHub: https://github.com/andreaswolf/git.typo3.org.

REST / Web Services
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No news so far.

File Upload
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I got in touch with Christian Müller and he will make a draft for an 
upload API and send some mails to collect ideas from other team members. 
Answers should be ready for our next meeting.

BE performance
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Ernesto reported that "it's an issue" (quote from T3camp). We are still 
working on that and our Steffen, one of our ExtJS specialists, should 
have a quick and always working internet connection after his move.

Working with Git and Gerrit
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We are aware that starting to use those new tools is not as easy as it 
should be and we will try to echo to the proposal to create some video 
tutorials. Ben will mail Kasper about how to do "official" screencasts 
gather some recommendations. In the mean time, the wiki [3] is still the 
sole documentation we really keep up to date and enhance as pitfalls and 
special cases are found.

Dates
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- TYPO3 4.6 alpha2 on June 14th 2011
- Feature Freeze and TYPO3 4.6 beta1 on August 2nd 2011
    no new features and no exceptions after the feature freeze date
- Final Release of TYPO3 4.6.0 on October 25th 2011

Next steps
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If you feel interested in a particular project or task, please reply on 
the list or directly get in contact with Xavier Perseguers as Release 
Manager of TYPO3 4.6.

[1] 
http://forge.typo3.org/projects/typo3v4-mvc/wiki/ExtbaseTeamMeeting_2011-05-26
[2] http://forge.typo3.org/projects/typo3v4-xliff
[3] http://wiki.typo3.org/Git_Gerrit

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Cheers
Xavier

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Xavier Perseguers
Release Manager TYPO3 4.6

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