[TYPO3-core] TYPO3 4.3 Feature Freeze

[Benno Weinzierl]

Hi Oliver,

i think thats a good decision and i will try to help with testing and 
debugging as much as possible to get a release candidate soon.

regards Benno

"Oliver Hader" <oliver at typo3.org> schrieb im Newsbeitrag 
news:mailman.1.1251283503.14781.typo3-team-core at lists.netfielders.de...
> Dear TYPO3 developers,
>
> the development of TYPO3 4.3 has taken a long time with several ups and
> downs. There is already a plenty amount of new features, improvements
> and bugfixes in the current development branch. However, the major
> features that were planned and are on the roadmap for TYPO3 4.3 [1] are
> unfinished or still pending in the Core list.
>
> The number of new issues and patches grows daily. But in my opinion we
> currently lose our time while discussing nits and all the fancy things
> that are nice to have but not really required for 4.3 and cannot get rid
> of all the other stuff that was pending for quite some time before. We
> don't have the capacity to deal with the whole work load right now.
>
> That's the reason I'm going to set the feature freeze for TYPO3 4.3 for
>
> *August 31st 2009*
>
> From this time, no more new features will be accepted for TYPO3 4.3 and
> we continue with bugfixing. There will be exceptions for the major
> features like frontend editing, scheduler, saltedpasswords etc. as
> defined on the roadmap [1].
>
> If you think that something is missing or you have an almost finished
> feature in the pipeline, please get in contact with me. But please don't
> start to experiment with new stuff and sell it as a must have on the
> Core list. Time is limited, there are already many things to be finished
> and we cannot do everything at a time. Thus, let's please concentrate on
> the major stuff for TYPO3 4.3.
>
> So, please post your finished features you consider as necessary to the
> Core list and send reminders for pending RFCs.
>
> Thanks & Rock on!
>
> olly
>
> [1] http://forge.typo3.org/wiki/typo3v4-core/43_roadmap
> -- 
> Oliver Hader
> TYPO3 Release Manager 4.3
>