[TYPO3-v4] Minutes of the 6th meeting of the 4.7 Release Team

[Felix Kopp]

We have lots of patches that already received +1 but would require 
additional core member acceptance.

What about sponsored Reviews?



On 03.01.12 13:44, Steffen Ritter wrote:
> Hi dear TYPO3 community,
>
> These are the minutes of the 6th 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/6th_Release_Team_Meeting_TYPO3_47
>
>
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> Minutes from the 6th 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.
>
> On Monday, January 2nd 2012 we hold our 6th meeting with the following
> participants:
>
> * Steffen Ritter (4.7 Release Manager)
> * Benjamin Mack (4.4 Release Manager)
> * Oliver Hader (Core Team Leader)
> * Ben van't Ende (Community Manager)
>
> TYPO3 4.7
> ==========
>
> In our agenda this week had been mainly 3 point to be discussed.
>
> General
> --------
>
> Since the holidays there seems to be not much action around. In
> addition, since Alpha 2 there had been no really development.
> Releasing the Alpha 3 on 10th January 2012 - as planned - would not make
> much sense since it would be the same actual package as Alpha 2.
>
> Therefore we decided to post-pone the Release of Alpha 3 one week to
> January 17th.
>
> Due to Organisation issues the Workspaces Team CodeSprint has been
> canceled, which affects the ExtJS 4 Migration and FAL Workspace
> Integration, too.
>
>
>
> State of FAL Development
> --------------------------
> We shortly discussed the state of the current FAL development. A group
> of developers currently actively is working on it and will be meeting at
> Benni Mack's this week.
>
> There are some fixes within the FAL-Repository not related to FAL at all
> wich should be submitted to Core before, to make the FAL changes more slim.
>
> Furthermore there are some components which will not be delivered as
> part of the TYPO3 Core which are the Amazon S3 Driver, a WebDAV Driver
> as well as the media-Extension with several MetaData Indexing Services.
>
> A team of interested people has to befound for maintaining them in future.
>
>
>
> State of ExtJS 4 Migration
> ---------------------------
> On Side of the ExtJS 4 Migratio Nothing more happened. Olly will try to
> find ExtJS 4 experts which will work on a payed bases on migrating the
> outstanding Tasks.
> Benni and Steffen have been working on the Skinning issues introduced by
> the Migration.
>
>
>
> Automating compile task
> ------------------------
> With the ExtJS 4 Migration another "auto-generated" piece of core has
> been integrated: The T3Skin for ExtJS (SASS compiled).
>
> Some versions ago the Sprite System has been integrated. Sprites, CSS
> and Ext-Tables Configuration for the Sprite System are auto-generated to.
>
> Currently developers have to manually regenerate the stuff upon changes
> and push them to... On conflicts it's nearly impossible to manually fix
> the conflicted state of these auto-generated stuff.
>
> Therefore we discussed Gerrit/Jenkins based triggers, automating these
> task on merge and on check out of changes.
> Olly will locally investigate the Tasks and Create script, aiming to
> ease up the life of Developers.
>
>
> regards
>
> Steffen
>
>
>
> If you have any further questions according to the development of TYPO3
> 4.7, feel free to contact me or just leave your comment within this thread.
>
>
>
> Regards
>