[TYPO3-hci] HCI team revived

[Jens Hoffmann]

Hy Folks,

I will open up the HCI-Team Page at TYPO3.org in the near future.
Right now I'm focused, with a small Team, on Usability Improvements
for 4.2. It's quite a bit work. :)

The main Topic for 4.2 is "Cleaner Backend". Which means:
1. Remove/Restructure existing things before ...
2. We implement new things. This will maybe hit the next version.

I will announce the actual Team-Members here and on the new site,
if the Team is in a final building phase. And also how to get into
the Team if some one is really interested in doing some work.

The CORE-Team has now a close relation to the HCI-Team! Everything
has to be done a bit more professional and official. Benni Mack and
me are the responsible contact persons between CORE and HCI. So we both
will take the final decisions. If some CORE member got HCI questions,
he could ask me through Benni and I will bring it into the official
HCI-Team. And if a HCI idea needs to be brought to the CORE, it has
to go thought the official HCI-Team, to me and I will push it through
Benni to the CORE team. So will avoid a one man show, nontransparent
"undercover" communication and a not so stringent TYPO3 interface.

This is new. So it has to be proved in a test phase for the beginning.
But we already do it like this right now and it seems to works quite well.
I hope it will be a great improvement for TYPO3, through this new
team structure and general work flow.

We got, just like the CORE-Team a public and a intern, closed list.
So we could take Ideas form the public HCI list to a next level and
than direct into the core team as a official statement.

I will keep you up to date and hoping for a productive HCI future.

Please don't send me HCI related things directly. Post them here to
the list. It will help the idea a lot more to be discussed be more
than two persons. ... But don't be shy to contact me in general. :)
I will try to do a god job as new HCI-Team leader.

Greez Jens

PS: If you like to clean up little things, post it to the list ... NOW! :)



Andreas Balzer wrote:
> Hi,
> Franz Koch schrieb:
>> I wasn't aware of the fact, that the HCI had been shut down.
> I wasn't aware of that fact too and it wasn't published anywhere. Maybe 
> that's a reason that some CORE - members didn't react on my 
> communication at all and not many people of them have been seen here for 
> a while.
> 
>  From my point of view - I don't know if Jens will post something about 
> the direction the "team" should take - it's important to create a guide 
> with all "results" the initial HCI team has achieved in terms of 
> discussions in this list. Everything done so far or done in the future 
> should be checked against this guide in order to stay compatible and to 
> present TYPO3 in a way that a user thinks that it's one concept where 
> everything looks like being done by one person.
> 
> As 4.2 is comming nearer I think it is very important to see whether the 
> new changes that the CORE team did - without any notice here (afaik it 
> was presented officially at the T3CON so we can't change it completly 
> anylonger) - correspond with those results.
> 
> In order to think about following versions I'd like to propose to 
> integrate Tapios topmenu extension into the core.
> 
> Greetings
> Andreas