Ingo Schmitt
On 1 November 2023, we launched the community budget process for 2024. For Q4 TYPO3 Association members were asked to vote on their favorites. As a result of 185 votes, the TYPO3 Association has granted budgets totalling € 23,000 to four ideas.
Overall Voting Results
| Idea | Score |
|---|---|
| Future of StaticFileCache | 4.51 |
| Improve Documentation for new Integrators and Developers | 4.07 |
| Enhanced Media and Video Uploader | 4.06 |
| Fully support rendering of commonmark Markdown documentation | 3.74 |
| DDEV web-based Add-on Registry | 3.42 |
| Improved TYPO3 configuration for environments | 3.33 |
| grid_styled_content - a state-of-the-art successor for fluid_styled_content | 3.18 |
| Configurable Fileadmin with different file storage locations | 2.88 |
| FeedbackFlow | 2.57 |
Summary of the Four Selected Ideas
- Funding for Fully support rendering of commonmark Markdown documentation will add support for markdown syntax to the official documentation rendering. This idea will be implemented by Lina Wolf. (€5,000)
- The Enhanced Media and Video Uploader by Alexander Bernhardt will implement a drop-in replacement for the current file uploader. (€5,000)
- To help beginners with TYPO3, the Improve Documentation for new Integrators and Developers Idea by Björn Huber will update and restructure the documentation. (€10,000)
- Future of StaticFileCache by Tim Lochmüller will create a TYPO3 v12 and TYPO3 v13-compatible version of the well-known StaticFileCache extension. (€3,000)
What Happens Now?
The winners will now start to work on their projects. They will be supported by the Business Control Committee (BCC). The people responsible for each idea project will report about their progress at typo3.org. If they succeed, they will be paid their allotted budget.
From the BCC’s point of view, all ideas would have been worth funding. Having a look at the voting results, we do see favorites, but the results in the main field are very close and a few more votes could have changed the overall results.
The first results of the Q2 budgets are already presented at TYPO3.org. In the coming period results of all selected Q3 budgets will be published.
