[TYPO3-t3skin] Newsgroup still alive?

[Andreas Balzer]

Hi,
Kasper Ligaard schrieb:
> Alexander Hahn skrev:
>> As a developer I'm really interessted in particpate, especially in the 
>> look and feel of TYPO3. Is their any way to help? How many people 
>> style the back-end?
> 
> Others will have to answer this question. I do not now. Sorry.

My view:
As the hci team has been officially shut down without any real arguments 
and was rebuilt as a small circle of people I don't know whether they 
are looking for any help within the concept phase anylonger. Many 
discussions that have taken place are simply ignored at the moment and 
any attempt to inform the people that are part of the hci structure 
simply ignore any emails concerning this topic.

Thomas Murphy (who was responsible for the 4.X skin until now) and me 
have tried to work at the skins for the 4.X branch and the 5.X branch in 
order to keep it consistent and create a base for the next UI. 
Unfortunately both sections have been taken by the small circle of the 
hci structure mentioned above. Anything we have done here (or better 
said within Skype conferences) concerning a change to the skin with all 
those new concepts by the former hci team has been rejected. Not only 
because only some people didn't like some colors or so but also because 
the original and discussed hci concepts didn't fit in their own new and 
not discussed concepts. Well currently the hci people "create" the skin. 
Or better: Change it as they like. Again: Our emails are simply ignored.

I think the actual coding is done by the core team or by the hci people 
as well. But I - as an official co-teamleader of the skin team - and 
afaik Thomas Murphy have currently no idea. Strange, right?

So again: This is only my view about the topic. But as I was very active 
in the hci team and began to work within the skin team and was just 
"replaced" as many many others without any arguments by the ECT, I am 
asking myself everyday whether T3 4.X is about usuability because the 
usuability "experts" mentioned everywhere have been thrown out as well.

Thanks for reading this.

Andreas Balzer
P.S.: Post to the core team list, I think they might be able to help you.