[TYPO3-core] FYI: TYPO3 4.3-alpha2 on March 8th 2009

[Franz Koch]

Hi Oli,
> Franz Koch schrieb:
>> I'm just curios which features currently not on the roadmap (although on
>> the task list) might make it into 4.3 final, as the list on forge until
>> feature freeze doesn't mention them:
>> - refactoring of TCEforms?
> 
> This project was been started but with to results that can be integrated
> into the Core yet. We'll see, if there's something in the next few weeks.
> 
>> - new form wizard?
>> - new install tool?
> 
> These projects have been "sponsored projects". However, there was not
> that much funding or it came too late. The form project (it's not only
> the wizard) is in progress and might be available as external extension
> for TYPO3 4.3 - otherwise it will be integratet into TYPO3 4.4.
> The new install tool will not be part of 4.3 due to missing money...

ok.

>> - the CSC improvements done by Uschi I think (sorry if I remembered the
>> wrong name)
> 
> Riona Kuthe had a talk about that at the T3CON08 in Berlin... I asked
> for information but did not receive any yet. I'll ask again...

I attended this talk - and yes, it'll be nice to get a "clean" markup 
out of the box (which is about time since ages), but I meant the things 
done by Uschi or Susanne (splitting up CSC TS templates and getting rid 
of all those nested compat conditions etc.) - unfortunately I haven't 
found the according threads in the newsgroups (switched form dev to HCI 
some day I think).

>> - extraction of WS GUI
> 
> Currently no progress.
> 
>> Especially the form wizard would be a nice benefit for editors, whereas
>> the rest is more developer oriented.
>>
>> There was also a discussion once about a up2date multimedia CE - is this
>> one already on a roadmap for a future T3 release?
> 
> All these features are nice... but not done automatically or by a single
> person. Please consider that most power is put into TYPO3 in leisure
> time and mostly without any sponsoring.

I know. I'd like to contribute more myself (like support for image with 
relative width for CSC - as discussed some time ago), but giving support 
for the extension cal is consuming quite a lot of my daily sparetime 
(doing some researches as cal is quite complex, providing solutions, 
fixing bugs etc. - you know that).

-- 
kind regards,
Franz Koch

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