[TYPO3-core] Review system woes

[François Suter]

Hi Olly,

> Some possible solutions at this time:
>
> * Review Days: Benni already started an initiative similar to previous
>    Bug Days to basically concentrate on reviews instead on bug fixes.
>    The scheduled date is *Friday,February 22nd 2013*  and open for all

I propose a far more radical solution: we halt all development until we 
have reached zero pending patches in Gerrit. Anyway the objective of 6.1 
is "improvement". What better way than to have given a final answer 
(merged or abandoned) to every pending patch? What else is more 
important? I'm sure everyone will appreciate a "stabilization" release 
after all the recent rush of changes (just look at the number of 
extensions which are still not compatible with 6.0).

> * Change in Core Team Structure: Since the community is flexible, the
>    permissions ("commit/submit karma") needs to be flexible as well, thus
>    there are plans to restructure the current scenario and as one effect,
>    give more power to active (long-term) contributors. A detailed draft
>    on that will follow - but let's do it step-by-step and not all at once

Yes, yes, yes, bring that on quickly. The recent fight over Christian's 
patch has raised the priority of this to critical IMO. We lack vision, 
we lack strategy, the rather hands-off leadership you exerted has shown 
its limits. We need a smaller, more dedicated, more active Core Team, 
which gives the community and in particular the active contributors a 
sense of where we are heading.

Let me make a strong statement: I think that the Core Team in its 
current form is as good as dead. There's no vision for the product, 
little or no communication, weak leadership and awfully little 
cooperation between members. Let's restructure it, rebuild it and make 
it shine again, because we have a wonderful group of nice and skillful 
people!

As a side note I feel a bit bad about saying "we" here, since my recent 
involvement has been with the Doc Team rather than the Core Team. But I 
wanted to express my feelings, because I still care :-)

Cheers

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Francois Suter
Cobweb Development Sarl - http://www.cobweb.ch