This Week in TYPO3 (Week 5, 2014)

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The security team introduces Public Service Announcements, workpackages progress, sprinting for CMS, the marketing team unfolds it's plans for 2014, Olivier Dobberkau for president and new faces in the TYPO3 Association.

General Assembly and elections of the TYPO3 Association

Last Saturday, February 1, the <link http: association.typo3.org general-assembly>general assembly, the body with the highest authority within the association, met in Frankfurt. The general assembly is a required yearly meeting where all the basic decisions about the budget, projects are taken. A highlight of the general assembly is the election of members of the board, the expert advisory board and the business control committee. Jürgen Egeling was followed as president of the TYPO3 Association by Olivier Dobberkau. Søren Schaffstein also left the board. Both Jürgen and Søren have been there from the very start of the TYPO3 Association. Thanks guys for your perseverance and for all the incredible work you did. The composition of the EAB also changed with Olivier moving to the Board as President of the TYPO3 Association and Eike Diestelkamp leaving the Expert Advisory Board. There are a couple of new faces in the TYPO3 Association that will undoubtedly provide fresh perspectives. The new people are: Danijela Grigic (Board), Marco Klawonn (BCC), Dominik Stankowski (EAB) and Martin Wiederkehr (EAB). In the coming weeks This Week in TYPO3 will introduce these new folks with a mini-interview.

Marketing for 2014

The marketing team met in Frankfurt on January 22 and prepared it's strategy for 2014. Berit Hlubek, co-leader of the marketing team, unfolds the plans for 2014 in an extensive article. Amongst the most ambitious plans are agency gatherings across Europe where the marketing team invites project managers, chief editors and those in charge of workshops. This way the team hopes to get more insight on missing (content editing) features. More communication workshops and strategy meetings are in the pipeline for 2014. The team will finalise the marketing material and a basis for a responsive relaunch for typo3.org is in the works. You can find a detailed list of the plans in the <link http: typo3.org news article marketing-team-meeting-january-22nd>marketing meeting report.

Public Service Announcements

Helmut Hummel, leader of the security team, writes that the security team now broadens the scope of it s work by introducing public service announcements. These advisories will include security issues in third party software like e.g. Apache, Nginx, MySQL or PHP that are related to TYPO3 products. Helmut explains in detail what this means in “<link http: typo3.org news article security-public-service-announcements>Security Public Service Announcements”.

TYPO3 Flow and Neos

Christian Müller reports that after a winter holiday break the TYPO3 Flow and Neos teams resumed their work with a big kick-off meeting. This resulted in a master plan for features and releases in 2014 that will become the official roadmap as soon as it is a bit more formalised. One of the decisions is that Flow and Neos will continue with feature-driven releases this year and re-evaluate that next year in order to switch to a date-driven release cycle at some point. One of the next major features in Neos will be localisation overlays of content for which a first technical implementation is already done and currently under review. A version 1.1 should therefore be possible in the beginning of the second quarter of 2014.

TYPO3 CMS workpackages and sprint

Ingo Schmitt, co-organiser of the <link http: www.workpackages.org>workpackages initiative reports to us and to the sponsors that after reaching the desired amount for all Workpackages in just 8 days, the team is working hard on getting all tasks and subtasks in a public project plan at forge.typo3.org: <link http: forge.typo3.org issues>forge.typo3.org/issues/55070. The list is still growing and getting more detailed by the day. For week 4 the FAL and Performance workpackages have already made good progress. FAL is at 34% and Performance is at 29% at the time of writing. <link http: aoe.com>AOE Media has provided the first version of the functional tests for irre (inline relational record editing) and workspaces. These tests will provide the basis to fix bugs in irre and workspaces. The first CMS code sprint was held this weekend in Cologne at the <link http: www.denkwerk.com>Denkwerk offices. A lot of community members contributed to the sprint in a non-code related way with wine, cake, sweets and breakfast. Ernesto Baschny, release manager of TYPO3 CMS 6.2, has summarised the whole sprint in <link http: typo3.org news article code-sprint-koeln-2014-report>a full report on typo3.org naming each and everyone that has contributed. On a final sprint note the appearance at the sprint of Rupert Germann (maintainer of the one and only original <link http: typo3.org extensions repository view tt_news>tt_news) needs to be mentioned. Rupert came by to discuss his findings on the performance of latest TYPO3 releases and share his ideas and concerns. The energy and development power that is being put into this release is unprecedented. Next up: The release of beta5 the coming week with all the sprint goodies. The next Code Sprint will be in Venlo / The Netherlands, from March 10 - 12 at the <link http: beech.it>beech.it offices.