[TYPO3-core] [TYPO3-v4] Minutes of the 11th meeting of the 4.7 Release Team

[Tolleiv Nietsch]

Yeah --- thank you, good work :)

Btw. we should really automate that submodule-pointer /ext_emconf.php 
stuff. Any way I can help with that?

Cheers,
Tolleiv

Steffen Ritter schrieb:
> Hi dear TYPO3 community,
>
> These are the minutes of the 12th 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/12th_Release_Team_Meeting_TYPO3_47
>
>
> The meetings of the last three weeks have been omitted due to several
> reasons. We are sorry for not announcing this cleary. Anyhow have fun
> with our news from today.
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> *12th Release Team Meeting TYPO3 4.7*
>
>
> he 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 core mailing list.
>
> On Monday, March 5th 2012 we held our 12th meeting with the following
> participants:
> - Steffen Ritter (4.7 Release Manager)
> - Xavier Perseguers (4.6 Release Manager)
> - Ernesto Baschny (4.5 Release Manager)
> - Ben van't Ende (Community Manager)
> - Benni Mack (Core Team Co-Leader)
> - Oliver Hader (Core Team Leader)
>
>
> ==========================
> = TYPO3 4.5 // TYPO3 4.6 =
> ==========================
>
> Patch-Level Releases
> --------------------------
>
> * There are currently about 40 - 50 merged bugfixes for TYPO3 4.5 and
> TYPO3 4.6 each. For TYPO3 4.4 there are only 4 bugfixes merged.
> We decided to *release new versions of 4.5 and 4.6 on Tuesday, March 6th
> 2012*.
>
> * Ernesto takes care of informing all the submodule-linked teams to
> prepare their repository.
>
>
> Backport Releases
> --------------------------
>
> * On Tuesday, March 13th 2012 the Release Team will publish a Release
> Canditate for 4.6 and 4.5 containing the first Feature Backports to
> stable branches.
>
> * Two weeks later, these backports will be released as normal
> "patch-level" version, if no problems occur.
>
> * Ernesto and Xavier are going to check, what needs to be integrated to
> the Backport Release Candidates, as until now not many patches are
> merged to the backport branches yet.
>
>
>
>
>
> ==========================
> = TYPO3 4.7 =
> ==========================
>
>
> Broken Blank/Dummy/Gov-Package
> --------------------------
>
> * The Government Package has been broken when releasing Beta 1. This
> already has been fixed and a new snapshot release has been published.
>
> * The blank package currently does not work correctly either. "about"
> and "aboutmodules" have introduced dependencies on extbase, which is not
> installed by default within the blank/dummy package. Steffen R. is going
> to change the Blank/Dummy package to make extbase and fluid enabled by
> default.
>
>
>
> Re-instating Beta 3 // Small exception to Feature Freeze
> --------------------------
> * The Extbase Team is going to meet up in the week after Beta 2 to fix
> long outstanding Bugs (f.e. with "workspaces") and work on some issues
> for 4.7. Furthermore some little features might be included in extbase
> there as well as. The bugfixes of bigger stuff might need to change the
> API a little bit, too.
>
> * To enable the Extbase Team putting full efforts into their code-sprint
> an exception to the Feature Freeze is granted to them. This will not be
> a general exception, but checked for every probably newly introduced
> feature seperately, comparing benefits and impact to the TYPO3 4.7 release.
>
>
> Adapting Introduction Package and Government Package
> --------------------------
>
> * Information in IP and GP somehow is outdated and the current content
> does not reflect our feature set.
>
> * Olly will create an Manual about what can be adapted at the
> Content-Masters as well as move the GP to a official place, so that
> editing may start.
>
> * Especially the Workspaces demonstration in IP should be enhanced as
> well as the HTML5 Video/Audio stuff should be explained in Detail.
>
> * We should furthermore think about moving from tt_news to news for the
> next major version.
>
> * Within the Government Package the information about FAL and the
> accessible gallery needs to be removed and the accessible search plugin
> should be integrated.
>
> * After the changes all pages have to be revalidated - in terms of
> Content as well as in terms of code-compliance.
>
>
>
> Release Planning and transparency
> --------------------------
>
> Tolleiv remarked at the core list that the last weeks of Release Team
> work have not been as transparent as they should have been.
> He noted that Release Notes were ommitted and most communication
> happened on Twitter only.
>
> * We agreed that there should be release notes, even on canceled
> meetings just to inform the community, that we did not forget about them.
>
> * Steffen on purpose did not touch any "Bugfix" issue on forge prior to
> the Feature Freeze, which now sadly leads to empty "milestones" since
> Beta 1 is released, but no new assignments have been done in Laax.
>
> * Steffen will now clean-up the issue tracker and assign issues
> according to milestones within the roadmap.
>
>
>
> Announcing the Government Package
> --------------------------
>
> We talked about the new Government Package and that it has not been
> officially announced, yet. We aim to have a news article telling the
> whole story and showing the benefits. Furthermore it should be
> completely bilangual. Ben offered to translate the package to English.
> Steffen, Olly and Ben will join forces to create the mentioned
> announcement on news.typo3.org.
>
>
> ==========================
> = TYPO3 4.8/6.0 and FAL =
> ==========================
>
> We shortly discussed the further progress of FAL.
>
> * The API has been merged to master already as promised in the news
> article last week. One round of additional PHPdoc and CGL clean-up
> already has been done by Georg Ringer.
>
> * FAL shall be published in the next major release after TYPO3 4.7
>
> * Having a TYPO3 6.0 release in October 2012 would ease many
> backward-compatibility overlays in the TypoScript part - besides that,
> we can get rid of the compatibility modes pointing back to TYPO3 3.8
>
> * The current master will be merged back to plain-fileabstraction branch
> on Incubator.git and the Team will finish up most of the 100 open issues
> in March 2012 - afterwards the fixed patch-sets will again pushed to
> Gerrit - just in time to explain and talk about during the TYPO3
> Developer Days 2012
>
> Since the "TYPO3 6.0" topic removes the barrier of integrating new
> features and breaking changes, we discussed the demand of a
> well-prepared strategy in terms of a roadmap from 4.7 via 6.0 to 7.0 and
> maybe even further. We are going to communicate and discuss the strategy
> (as a suggestion) during the next TYPO3 events, like the Developer Days,
> TYPO3 Camps and individual User Group Meetings to get as much feedback
> as possible - thus, we prepare the resources/slides/information that can
> be used to spread the idea and vision...
>
>
> 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
>

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